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Musica Antiqua on WORT, 118 Bedford Street, Madison, WI (2025)

12/11/2025

Musica Antiqua’s Carol Moseson is guest-hosting Fantasia, WORT’s Friday classical show, on December 12. The program will begin with classical music played on period instruments—Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto #5 in D major, BWV 1050, and Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 1 in B flat major, K207. Later, you'll hear music performed by local artists, including cellist Parry Karp’s new, critically acclaimed release of Ernest Bloch’s Schelomo. Carol will also share music from noted local musicians Stephanie Jutt and Thomas Kasdorff, as well as frequent Bach Dancing and Dynamite guest artist, Kenneth Olsen.

WORT community radio features classical music every weekday morning from 5 to 8 a.m. and early music on Sundays from 8 to 11 a.m. Tune in to 89.9 FM in southcentral Wisconsin or wortfm.org everywhere. Too early for you? Shows are archived at wortfm.org for two weeks, so you can listen at your convenience.

Huge thanks to everyone who donated during WORT’s 50th Birthday Boost last week. Thank you for listening to and supporting community radio.

Image: Parry Karp with cello, from the liner notes of his new recording on Signum Classics. Photo by Katrin Talbot. Used with permission.

12/06/2025

Ticket giveaway in the 10 o’clock hour of Musica Antiqua with special guest Trevor Stephson, artistic director of Madison Bach Musicians (MBM)!

The holiday season is here! On Sunday, December 7, 2025, Musica Antiqua’s Carol Moseson will chat with Trevor in the third hour about MBM’s concert next Saturday. Trevor will share insights and musical excerpts—and a lucky call-in listener will win a pair of tickets to the concert.

During the first two hours of the show, Carol will feature music for early December’s Christian feasts. Here’s the lineup: medieval chants venerating St. Nicholas (12/6), medieval English and Russian Orthodox chants for the Feast of the Immaculate Conception of Mary (12/8), and a splendid set of baroque vespers for Our Lady of Guadalupe (12/12). You’ll also hear Advent music and secular music to celebrate winter.

Musica Antiqua airs every Sunday morning from 8 to 11 on Madison’s WORT, 89.9 FM, and wortfm.org. Thanks to your kind and stalwart support, WORT is now 50 years old! Your Musica Antiqua cohosts, Alan, Carol, Natalie, and Terri, appreciate you for making Musica Antiqua possible, and we look forward to bringing you more medieval, renaissance, and baroque music with you in the year ahead. Thank you for listening.

Image: Madison Bach Musicians, 15th Annual Holiday Concert promotional photo.

11/30/2025

This Sunday, Musica Antiqua host Terri Felton will celebrate Thanksgiving weekend with some selections of early American music, as well as music from contemporary Native composers. She will also feature a new release of viol music by French gambist Manon Papasergio entitled Per la viola bastarda.

Musica Antiqua airs every Sunday from 8-11am central time on WORT, 89.9FM, Madison. You can also hear us streaming live at wortfm.org, or listen to the archive any time over the next two weeks. Thank you for listening and supporting WORT, your community radio station. Your comments and requests are always welcome here on Facebook, by email at [email protected], or by calling 608-256-2001 during the broadcast.

Image: Manon Papasergio, facebook.com

11/21/2025

For Musica Antiqua on the Sunday before Thanksgiving, host Alan Muirhead will present music for the season: Monteverdi's Mass of Thanksgiving opens the first hour, and a long set of music by American composers such as Billings, Wood, etc., opens the second hour. There will also be music for lute performed by Elisa La Marca, founder of Quartetto di Luti da Milano; madrigals by Cipriano de Rore; a Bach violin trio featuring Isabella Faust and a Corelli violin sonata with Rachel Barton Pine; music from the Lithuanian court; and more. Musica Antiqua airs every Sunday from 8-11am on WORT, 89.9FM, Madison and you can also catch it at wortfm.org, where it streams live Sunday morning and is archived for the following 2 weeks. Either way you'll be treated to 3 hours of medieval, renaissance and baroque music. Tell your friends! and have a glorious Thanksgiving holiday!
Painting is by Jennie Augusta Brownscombe, Thanksgiving at Plymouth, 1925

11/14/2025

Back to Bach! On Sunday, November 16, Musica Antiqua host Natalie Fields brings you a cornucopia of J. S. Bach-centric discoveries. Natalie will share many new recordings, including some featuring modern or unusual instruments—all of which are well worth a listen. You’ll hear from early music greats Hespèrion XXI and Jordi Savall, Il Pomo d’Oro, soprano Zefira Valova, transverse flutist Stefano Sabene, and the Schola Romana Ensemble, plus some of the most exciting pianists, cellists, and guitarists performing today.

Enjoy Musica Antiqua every Sunday morning from 8 to 11 CT on WORT, 89.9 FM, wortfm.org, or the WORT app. (You can also sleep in and listen online later.) We love to hear from you—here on Facebook, at [email protected], or by calling 608-256-2001 during the show. Thank you for listening!

Image: Engraving of the sun by A.F.C. Kollmann shows J. S. Bach as its center. Johann Nikolaus Forkel included it in the German classical music newspaper, Allgemeine Musikalische Zeitung, October 1799.

11/07/2025

Thank you for supporting WORT and Musica Antiqua during our Fall Pledge drive! On Sunday, November 9, host Carol Moseson will celebrate your generosity by playing some of your favorite artists—Capella Romana, La Fontegara, Jordi Savall, Paul O’Dette, the Dufay Collective, Musica Secreta, and Rachel Podger.

You’ll also hear music from composers Francisco Guerrero (died 11/8/1599) and François Couperin (born 11/10/1688), plus music by Antoine Busnois, Hayne van Ghizeghem, and Robert Morton for their patron, Charles the Bold (born 11/10/1433).

Join us every Sunday morning, 8-11, for Musica Antiqua, your community radio program of medieval, renaissance, and baroque music on WORT 89.9 FM and wortfm.org. Thank you for listening!

Image: Charles the Bold kneels as Saint George, a dragon, and an angel stand behind him. Opening of the Prayer Book of Charles the Bold, illuminated manuscript by Lieven van Lathem, c. 1471.

11/01/2025

This Sunday, Musica Antiqua host Terri Felton will be acknowledging several celebrations and events for early November, as well as saying thank you to our listeners for your support during our most recent pledge drive. We will celebrate Dia de los Mu***os with music from Mexico, as well as selections related to death and remembrance. We will also hear selections to honor the feasts of All Saints and All Souls, and we will recognize the beginning of Native American Heritage Month and the Hmong New Year.

To thank all of you, our listeners, for your support during our recent pledge drive, I will play some listener favorites, along with suggestions and requests received during the drive.

Musica Antiqua airs every Sunday from 8-11am central time on WORT, 89.9FM, Madison. You can also hear us streaming live at wortfm.org, or listen to the archive any time over the next two weeks. Thank you for listening and supporting WORT, your community radio station. Your comments and requests are always welcome here on Facebook, by email at [email protected], or by calling 608-256-2001 during the broadcast.

Image: Pieter Claesz – Vanitas Still Life, 1630. Collection of the Denhach Mauritshuis Museum, The Hague. Public domain.

10/24/2025

For Sunday's Musica Antiqua, host Alan Muirhead will present a mix of instrumental and vocal music from 4 centuries.

Two works are featured, one by a very well-known composer: Josquin's second mass based on the L'Homme Armé tune. The other is a suite by a composer much less well known: Wenzel Ludwig Edler von Radolt, a minor aristocrat in Vienna who left us just one book of lute concerti, which was published in 1701.

The show will also feature tracks from the new CD of Scarlatti keyboard works played by Madison's own Trevor Stephenson. Other performers featured on the show will include La Nef, La Lyra, the Tallis Scholars, La Reverdie, the Solazzo Ensemble, Rolf Lislevand, and others.

Tune in to WORT, 89.9FM, Madison, this Sunday morning 8-11am or listen on wortfm.org for the next 2 weeks. Tell your friends about us!

And many, many thanks to everyone who supported Musica Antiqua and WORT during our recent fund drive. With your help we exceeded our goal.

10/17/2025

Dear listeners, we appreciate you so much! Musica Antiqua made its goals for both pledge drive shows—thanks to your very generous support. Thank you, too, for your kind and encouraging words.

On Sunday, October 19, Natalie Fields hosts Musica Antiqua with early music on a birthday theme. Four of her featured composers were born on October 19, although their birth years vary: Giovanni Ancina (1545), Louis Le Quointe (1652), Johann Christoph Frauenholtz (1684), Giuseppe Maria Caretti (1690). The exception, Johan Helmich Roman, was born a week later (10/26/1694) and became known as the father of Swedish music.

Join us for three hours of medieval, renaissance, and baroque music every Sunday morning, 8-11 a.m. CT on WORT 89.9 FM, Madison, and wortfm.org. Musica Antiqua is one of the nation's longest-running early music programs, made possible by your financial support and community volunteers.

Your comments and requests are always welcome here on Facebook or at [email protected]. Or, call us during the show at 608-256-2001. We love to hear from you.

Image: Portrait of composer and bishop Giovanni Ancina (1545-1604). Artist and date unknown, National Library of France.

10/16/2025

On October 17, Musica Antiqua's Carol Moseson will host Fantasia, WORT's Friday morning classical program from 5 to 8 a.m. Her program will include works by Frédéric Chopin, who died on this day in 1849. She will also share music by W.F. Bach, Beethoven, Coleridge-Taylor, Price, and Weill. As time permits, you'll also hear a few anonymous spirituals arranged by jazz pianist Baptiste Trotignon and sung by a Musica Antiqua favorite, countertenor Reginald Mobley.

WORT community radio (89.9 FM Madison and wortfm.org) offers classical music every weekday morning from 5 to 8 a.m. Tune in for thoughtful programs highlighting contemporary classical, chamber music, choral works, classical favorites, and orchestral music. Thank you for listening--and for your wonderful support during our recent pledge drive.

Image: Daguerreotype of Frédéric Chopin, taken by Louis-Auguste Bisson, 1849, Paris.

10/09/2025

Your Musica Antiqua hosts, Terri Felton, Natalie Fields, Carol Moseson, and Alan Muirhead, thank you for your generous support during last week’s show. You helped us reach our goal for that program—and we have one more fundraising show to go! On Sunday, October 12, Terri and Carol will bring you plenty of outstanding early music while they enlist your support one last time. Musica Secreta, Duo Trobairitz, Jordi Savall and Hespèrion XXI, The Dufay Collective, and La Fontegara are just a few of the artists Terri and Carol will be delighted to share with you.

Thanks to your financial support, Musica Antiqua is one of the nation’s longest-running programs of medieval, renaissance, and baroque music, and WORT 89.9 FM community radio is celebrating its 50th year on air. Please ensure that we continue to thrive by donating if you haven’t already done so during this pledge drive. Musica Antiqua airs every Sunday morning from 8 to 11 CT on WORT 89.9 FM Madison and wortfm.org everywhere. Thank you for listening and for being part of the WORT family.

Image: Illumination, “The troubadour Perdigon playing his fiddle,” from an anonymous 13th-century manuscript. FR 854, folio 49r, Galician Digital Library, Spain.

10/04/2025

Hello, dear listeners,

Musica Antiqua welcomes you to the WORT Fall Pledge Drive this Sunday, October 5. Cohosts Terri Felton, Carol Moseson, and Alan Muirhead will cheerfully entreat you to support WORT, enticing you with early music favorites and new treasures. Join us for music that's likely to include madrigals and motets sung by the finest choirs, music for viol consort, recorders, and early brass instruments, and medieval chansons. You'll likely hear music from the Arab world, the Sephardic diaspora, the New World, England, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Germany, and France. Yes, there will be plenty of dance music and a lot of fun.

Thank you, as always, for listening and for your financial support. Many of you have already stepped up to help us replace the $113,000 of lost Corporation for Public Broadcasting funds. Others are contributing to a matching grant to help us close this gap AND fund our most urgent building repairs. We appreciate all of you. Now is a great time to support WORT with your donations, kind words, and volunteer power. Times are hard, but WORT and our supporters have never been stronger. Please join us on Sunday morning, 8-11 CT, on WORT 89.9 FM or wortfm.org—and encourage your friends to listen too.

Image: Stained glass rondel, "Labours of the Months (July -haymaking)," 1450-1475, England. Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

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