Musica Antiqua on WORT

Musica Antiqua on WORT Musica Antiqua presents 3 hours of medieval, renaissance and baroque music every Sunday morning, 8 a.m.-11 a.m., CT on WORT, 89.9FM, Madison and at wortfm.org.

Cohosted by Terri Felton, Natalie Fields, Carol Moseson, and Alan Muirhead.

For this Sunday’s Musica Antiqua, host Terri Felton will feature listener favorites and some requests to say thank you f...
06/13/2026

For this Sunday’s Musica Antiqua, host Terri Felton will feature listener favorites and some requests to say thank you for your generosity during our recent pledge drive. This week we will hear performances by Ensemble Alcatraz, Anonymous 4, The King’s Singers, Tragicomedia, LeStrange Viols, Chanticleer, and much, much more.

Your support is what keeps WORT thriving, and we are so grateful for your contributions and your comments. Thank you so much for being a part of our WORT community.

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: “A Dance to the Music of Time” - Nicolas Poussin, c. 1634–1636

06/07/2026

This Sunday will be the second Sunday of the Summer Pledge Drive at WORT. Through the years, Musica Antiqua has been among the top shows on WORT in terms of funds raised, while we also play lots of music. Our deepest thanks go to you, our audience, for supporting early music and WORT. Carol, Terri and Alan will have lots of great sounds lined up (Natalie is off this Sunday), so it will still be worth your while to tune in. And, of course, if you happen to be moved to contribute to the station, that would be wonderful!

Musica Antiqua airs every Sunday morning, 8-11 am, on WORT, 89.9FM in Madison. We also stream live and archive the show for 2 weeks at wortfm.org. We’ll be back with “normal” programming Sunday, June 14. We’ll let you know how we did then as well.

Let’s frolic! On Sunday, May 31, Musica Antiqua’s four hosts invite you to join us for WORT’s Spring pledge drive. Each ...
05/30/2026

Let’s frolic! On Sunday, May 31, Musica Antiqua’s four hosts invite you to join us for WORT’s Spring pledge drive. Each of us is bringing music that we think you’ll love—everything from medieval Croatian chant to playful villanelles sung by Les Kapsber’girls. You’ll hear baroque music from Latin America, songs composed by women, consort music, new discoveries, and plenty of dance tunes.

Thank you for making this show—and WORT’s vast array of music, talk, and news programming—possible. We’re looking forward to cheerfully entreating you on Sunday to keep supporting this amazing community resource. Together, we can keep WORT thriving.

Musica Antiqua airs every Sunday morning, 8 to 11, CT on WORT 89.9 FM in Madison and everywhere on wortfm.org and the free WORT app. Terri Felton, Natalie Fields, Carol Moseson, and Alan Muirhead thank you for listening.

The Peasant Dance (1568), oil on oak panel by Peter Brueghel the Elder (c. 1525/1530 – 1569), Museum of Fine Arts, Vienna.

You never know what’s going to turn up on Musica Antiqua, dear listeners, and Sunday, May 24, is no exception. Host Caro...
05/22/2026

You never know what’s going to turn up on Musica Antiqua, dear listeners, and Sunday, May 24, is no exception. Host Carol Moseson will share music recorded by early music pioneer David Munrow, who died 50 years ago this month (8-12-1942 – 5/15/1976) at age 33. Munrow’s career as a musician, musicologist, educator, and BBC Radio presenter lasted barely ten years, but resulted in 50 recordings with Musica Reservata, The Early Music Consort of London, Nigel North, Christopher Hogwood, The King’s Singers, and many others. He popularized early music in Europe and the U.S. during the 1970s much as Leonard Bernstein promoted classical music appreciation in the 1960s. Munrow’s combination of scholarship and freedom in interpretation continues to influence early music today. You’ll hear several examples from his recordings over the course of the program.

Musica Antiqua also salutes the brilliant young violinist, George Bridgetower (1778 – 1860) who premiered a violin sonata with his friend, Ludwig van Beethoven, on May 24, 1803. Beethoven dedicated the work, Violin Sonata No. 9, Op. 47, to Bridgetower, but changed his mind after a quarrel. Beethoven rededicated the sonata to Rudolphe Kreutzer, and it became the “Kreutzer.” You’ll hear a violin and fortepiano recording that captures the fire and color of the sonata as Bridgetower and Beethoven might have performed it.

Lastly, it’s Memorial Day, which has its roots in the Civil War and Decoration Day. Early American music will finish out the show.

As always, thank you for listening to Musica Antiqua. Your comments and requests are welcome here on Facebook, by email at [email protected], or during the broadcast at 608-256-2001 (follow the prompts to reach the studio). Musica Antiqua, a program of medieval, renaissance, and baroque music, airs every Sunday morning from 8 to 11 a.m., CDT, in southcentral Wisconsin on WORT 89.9 FM and everywhere on wortfm.org.

Image: Portrait of George Bridgetower, 1790 mezzotint by Henry Edridge (1768 – 1821), The British Museum, London.

For this Sunday’s Musica Antiqua, host Terri Felton will feature albums purchased at recent Early Music Now concerts in ...
05/16/2026

For this Sunday’s Musica Antiqua, host Terri Felton will feature albums purchased at recent Early Music Now concerts in Milwaukee, as they close their 2025-26 season this month. We will hear performances by The Newberry Consort, Trio Mediaeval, Trio Settecento, the Valencia Baryton Project, Modern Medieval Voices, and the Music from China Ensemble, all of whom have performed in Milwaukee over the past two seasons. Other featured performers include Hespèrion XXI, Dialogos, and Ensemble Théodora, and many, many more.

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: “The Valencia Baryton Project”, from Early Music Now, as featured on UrbanMilwaukee.com, 2025.

This Sunday's Musica Antiqua will feature a lot of music for and about the Virgin Mary, arguably the most famous mother ...
05/08/2026

This Sunday's Musica Antiqua will feature a lot of music for and about the Virgin Mary, arguably the most famous mother in the western Christian world. You will also hear music celebrating Saint Anna (Mary's mother) and Mary Magdelene. On the instrumental side there will be music for dancing as well as music for recorder and for viola da gamba. Masters such as Josquin Desprez, Francisco Guerrero, Hildegard von Bingen, Marin Marais and Pierre de la Rue will be featured, but we'll also hear pieces by Veracini, Kreüsser, the ever-present Anonymous, and many others ranging from early Medieval times to late 18th century.
Tune in Sunday morning, May 10, to WORT, 89.9 FM, Madison, or at any time in the next 2 weeks to the wortfm.org archive. Tell all your friends about us, and Happy Mother's Day!

As Thomas Morley wrote with a lot of fa la la la las, “now is the month of Maying.” Musica Antiqua’s Natalie Fields loo...
05/03/2026

As Thomas Morley wrote with a lot of fa la la la las, “now is the month of Maying.” Musica Antiqua’s Natalie Fields looks forward to bringing you music for this joyous new month on Sunday, May 3. You’ll hear music with “May” in the titles or lyrics, selections from “Epitaph for a Green Lover” released on May 1, and a new recording of Vivaldi’s “Spring (La Primavera)” on period instruments. It promises to be a fun and breezy show. Tune in and enjoy!

Musica Antiqua, WORT’s program of medieval, renaissance, and baroque music, airs every Sunday morning from 8 to 11 a.m., CT. Listen on WORT 89.9 FM (Madison area), wortfm.org, or on the free WORT app available from your app store. You can also access playlists and archived programs at wortfm.org and on the app. Thank you for making this program possible through your support. We appreciate you.

Image: Believed to be Flora, the goddess of Spring. Fresco from the Villa di Arianna in Stabiae near Pompeii, first century. National Archaeological Museum of Naples.

It’s almost May Day! Carol Moseson will be your guest host on Fantasia, WORT’s Friday classical show from 5 – 8 a.m., on...
04/29/2026

It’s almost May Day! Carol Moseson will be your guest host on Fantasia, WORT’s Friday classical show from 5 – 8 a.m., on May 1. Musica Antiqua listeners will likely recognize Kalenda Maya and other early music melodies for spring that will open the program. Carol will also share music by J. S. Bach, Joaquín Rodrigo, Johannes Brahms, Jean Sibelius, and Richard Wagner. We’ll finish up with music by Leonard Bernstein and Sam Cooke.

Fantasia is part of WORT’s commitment to classical music on weekday mornings at 89.9 FM and wortfm.org. Each host—Brian D. Johnson, Peter Haney, Ena Foshay, Ava Borelli and Walter, Kate Paape, and Rich Samuels—takes a different approach, offering contemporary, chamber, choral, and symphonic classical music. If 5 – 8 a.m. is too early for you, catch the shows and their playlists at wortfm.org. Either way, please listen in and experience the increasingly vast world of classical music today.

Your comments and suggestions are always welcome during the broadcast at 608-256-2001. Thank you for listening to WORT community radio.

Image: Close-up of blossoming crabapple tree branches photographed and shared by Wouter Hagens via Wikipedia.

On Sunday, April 26, Musica Antiqua will feature excerpts from Gramophone’s 2025 Early Music Recording of the Year, The ...
04/24/2026

On Sunday, April 26, Musica Antiqua will feature excerpts from Gramophone’s 2025 Early Music Recording of the Year, The Krasiński Codex by Agnieszka Budzińska-Bennett and Ensembles Dragma and Peregrina. This recording includes medieval hymns honoring the Virgin Mary, secular music for the Kraków royal court, and vocal works by Nicolaus de Radom (c. 1390 – c. 1450), Poland’s earliest named composer. Ten singers, medieval fiddles, early brass instruments, lute, harp, and medieval organ provide tremendous variety across this 3-CD set.

You’ll also hear listener requests from our last pledge drive (thanks again for your very generous support): a setting of La Folia by Marin Marais, troubadour songs for spring, choral music by Bolivian composer Juan de Araujo, and Elizabethan dance tunes. Carol Moseson is your host this Sunday; your comments and requests are always welcome here on Facebook, by email at [email protected], and at 608-256-2001 during the broadcast.

Musica Antiqua, a program of medieval, renaissance, and baroque music, airs every Sunday morning from 8 to 11 CT on WORT 89.9 FM and wortfm.org. Thank you for listening and supporting this show and WORT. We appreciate you.

Image: Detail from “The Adoration of the Magi” portrays Nicolaus de Radom’s patron, King Władysław II Jagiełło (c. 1352/1362 –1434), as one of the three wise men, removing his crown and bringing a jeweled gift (lower left) to the infant Jesus. Tempera on wood, c.1475 – 1485, artist unknown. Wawel Castle, Krakow, Poland.

For this Sunday’s Musica Antiqua, host Terri Felton will be featuring a new release from February 2026 which focuses on ...
04/18/2026

For this Sunday’s Musica Antiqua, host Terri Felton will be featuring a new release from February 2026 which focuses on French Baroque music heard in German courts. It is the debut album from Ensemble Théodora and is entitled Tranquilles Cœurs: Le Goût Français dans les Cours Allemandes (French taste in German courts). From this album, we will hear selections by Jean-Baptiste Lully and Johann Fischer, as well as an anonymous sonata from an Uppsala University Library manuscript. We will also hear works by several Italian composers, such as Carlo Gesualdo, Barbara Strozzi, Isabella Leonarda, Vincenzo Capriola, Antonia Bembo, and many more.

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: “Portrait of Several Musicians and Artists by François Puget, 1688, public domain. The two main figures have been identified as Jean-Baptiste Lully and the librettist Philippe Quinault.

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