Musica Antiqua on WORT

10/10/2026

For this Sunday’s Musica Antiqua, host Terri Felton will be playing a variety of listener favorites as well as some recent releases to say thank you for your support during our recent pledge drive. You are the reason we are here, and we so greatly appreciate you! Expect to hear music of Henry Purcell, William Lawes, Pomponio Nenna, Barbara Strozzi, William Byrd, Girolamo Frescobaldi, as well as early Adriatic chants, fusions of Arabic, Hindustani, and French Baroque viol music, and much, much more.

If you didn’t get a chance to donate (or want to donate again), there is still time! The station did fall a little short on our fundraising goal, but fortunately, some very generous donors are helping us out with a tremendous new online challenge grant:

*****Any amount you can comfortably give at wortfm.org between now and midnight on Sunday, October 11 will be DOUBLED if you're a current donor. If you are a NEW donor, your gift will be TRIPLED.*****

Thanks again to everyone who donated the past two weeks, including our other challenge partners Roy and Orange, as well as all of you who are Evergreen donors – we are so grateful.

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: 14th Century Illuminated Manuscript Painting from Middle Rhine, Germany; public domain.

10/10/2026

Thank you to the many kind and generous listeners who supported us during our last two WORT pledge drive shows. Your Musica Antiqua co-hosts, Terri Felton, Natalie Fields (in absentia), Alan Muirhead, and Carol Moseson, are profoundly grateful for your support. Thank you also to our dear friends who helped us with Challenge grants: Roy on Sept. 27 and Orange Schroeder and the Handel Aria Competition on Oct. 4.

If you meant to donate but didn't, you haven't missed the boat. The station did fall a little short. Fortunately, some very generous donors are helping us out with a tremendous new online Challenge grant:

*****Any amount you can comfortably give at wortfm.org between now and midnight on Sunday, Oct.12 will be DOUBLED if you're a current donor. If you are a NEW donor, your gift will be TRIPLED.*****

Thank you for making Musica Antiqua and all the other WORT shows you love possible. You're the best!

Image: Arrival of the Pilgrims in Cologne (detail), 1490, oil painting by Vittore Carpaccio, Gallerie dell'Accademia di Venezia. Part of a series portraying the story of St. Ursula and her pilgrimage with 10,000 virgins.

10/02/2026

Hello, dear Musica Antiqua Friends! Sunday, October 4, is the last day of our pledge drive. Thank you sincerely to everyone who donated during last week’s show. Your volunteer co-hosts—Alan, Natalie, Terri, and Carol—appreciate you more than you can imagine. Musica Antiqua and WORT community radio are still going strong, thanks to you.

If you haven't already given, please join the caring folks who stepped up last week. All four of your co-hosts look forward to cheerfully entreating you to support WORT. We’ll be plying you with many of your medieval, renaissance, and baroque favorites—dances and carnival music, works by Hildegard von Bingen and other women composers, and beloved artists, such as Jordi Savall, Reginald Mobley, and Les Kapsber’girls, and Chatham Baroque.

Musica Antiqua airs every Sunday morning from 8 – 11 on Madison’s WORT 89.9 FM and everywhere on wortfm.org and the free WORT app. Tune in and invite your friends and family to join us. Thanks for listening and for supporting WORT community radio.

Image: Detail from a Codex Manesse (1305-1340) illustration by Additional Painter II, Zurich, Switzerland (now held by the University of Heidelberg). It shows musicians playing a variety of instruments.

09/26/2026

Join hosts Alan Muirhead and Terri Felton this Sunday, September 27, for the first of our two fall pledge drive weekends. You'll hear several listener favorites, including English dances and songs, music for viol consort, Latin American Baroque music in honor of Hispanic Heritage month, and much more.

As always, thank you for listening, and thank you for supporting community radio. 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. 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: King David and musicians from Olomouc Bible, folio 276R, color enhanced. Unknown illustrator, Czechoslovakia, 1417 A.D. Public domain.

09/19/2026

On Sunday, September 20, Musica Antiqua will mark the passing of one of the three greatest early Renaissance composers, Gilles Binchois (c. 1400 – 9/20/1460), with examples of his sacred and secular music. Host Carol Moseson will also share Jewish Baroque music by Salomone Rossi and others in observance of Yom Kippur, which begins at sundown on Sunday. Carol will also continue the celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15 – October 15), which Terri Felton began on last week’s program (available on wortfm.org’s archives for another week).

Musica Antiqua airs every Sunday morning from 8 to 11 on WORT 89.9 FM (Madison, WI) and everywhere on wortfm.org. Your calls and comments are always welcome—during the broadcast at 608-256-2001 (wait for the prompts), here on Facebook, or at [email protected].

Thank you for listening to Musica Antiqua, If you like what you’re hearing, tell your friends.

Image: Gilles Binchois (ca. 1400-1460), unattributed watercolor from “Le Champion des dames” by Martin Le Franc (1395?-1460?), printed in 1488 and 1530. Digital copy, New York Public Library.

09/13/2026

For this Sunday’s Musica Antiqua, host Terri Felton will be acknowledging the anniversary of 9/11, as well as the celebrations of Rosh Hashanah and the beginning of Hispanic Heritage Month. We will hear music from Jewish composers, as well as Sephardic songs and music from Latin America. It is also Terri’s 5th anniversary of hosting Musica Antiqua, so there will be many of her personal favorites to round out the program.

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.

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09/05/2026

For this Sunday’s Musica Antiqua, host Terri Felton will be celebrating Labor Day weekend with a “themeless” program of early music to relax and enjoy. We will hear courtly love songs from early France, fantasias for the vihuela de mano by Luys Milán, Italian laude from the early Renaissance, and much 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: Peasant Dance - Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1567, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, public domain.

08/30/2026

Tune in to this morning's beautiful Musica Antiqua program created and hosted by Natalie Fields. You'll hear music chosen to mark the end of summer, glorious summer. Join the live broadcast now until 11 a.m. on WORT 89.9 FM or wortfm.org or listen to the archived show anytime in the next two weeks at wortfm.org.

Image: Summer field with blue cornflowers, red poppies, and hay in Hamois, Belgium. Photographed by Luc Viatour, 2006 and shared through Wikipedia.

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08/22/2026

Summer is at its ripest now that fall is approaching. On Sunday, August 23, Musica Antiqua will mark poet Robert Herrick’s baptism (8/24/1591) with his poem set to music by William Lawes, “Gather Rosebuds While Ye May.” Host Carol Moseson will also share a few floral-themed works, including English madrigals, Spanish cantigas, a Sephardic love song, and Justin Holland’s setting of “The Last Rose of Summer.”

You’ll also hear music for the Feast of the Assumption (8/15), which honors Mary, Jesus’s mother, ranging from the medieval chant “Ave Maris Stella” to Palestrina’s “Missa Assumpta Es” to Biber’s Rosary Sonata No. 14. Dances performed by a baroque flute ensemble, viol consort, and string ensemble will round out the program.

Join cohosts Terri Felton, Natalie Fields, Carol Moseson, and Alan Muirhead every Sunday morning from 8 to 11 for Musica Antiqua, Madison’s program of medieval, renaissance, and baroque music on WORT 89.9 FM Community Radio and wortfm.org. Your comments and requests are welcome here on Facebook, at [email protected], or on the studio line (608-256-2001) during the program. Thank you for listening and supporting Madison’s gem of a radio station.

Image: Rosa gallica, gouache by Hans Simon Holtzbecker, c. 1650 (Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen). Cultivated by the Greeks and Romans, Rosa gallica is considered the ancestor of medieval Europe’s roses.

08/15/2026

For this Sunday’s Musica Antiqua, host Terri Felton will be featuring a recording of selected works of Antoine Gosswin, a Flemish composer who worked in Bavaria with Orlando di Lasso. We will also hear selections from other composers working and living in Germany, such as Ludwig Senfl and Sophie Elisabeth Herzogin (a student of Heinrich Schütz), as well as music from William Byrd, John Dowland, Vicente Lusitano, Giovanni Carbonelli, and much 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 Duchess Elisabeth Sophie of Mecklenburg (1613-1676), engraving by Philipp Kilian, c.1650-1676, public domain.