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    Arrangements of Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons

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    Troubadours, Trouvères, and Minnesingers

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    J.C. Bach: Not His Dad’s Baroque Music

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    Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Italian Elegance in 17th-Century France

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    Bach’s Goldberg Variations

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    Rediscovering Johannes Ockeghem

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    Dame Ethel Smyth: Knight of the Musical Realm

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    Thomas Tallis: Music for Kings

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    The Chamber Music of Luigi Boccherini: Elegance, Always

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    The Natural Horn: Recent Recordings

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    Interpreting Purcell, Redux

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    The Baroque in Central and South America

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    Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice

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    Guillaume Dufay

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    Hildegard of Bingen

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    Bach’s St. Matthew Passion: New Interpretations of a Masterwork

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    Ralph Vaughan Williams: A Master of Orchestration Turns 150

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    Giovanni Battista Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater: Glorious Music

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    150 Years of Aida

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    Singing His Praises: Bach Cantatas

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    Unusual Madrigals

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    British & Irish Music

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    Schubert’s Winterreise

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    Interpreting Purcell

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    Benjamin Booker

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    Lute!

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    The Mountain Goats

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    Caldara

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    Thurston Moore/ Father John Misty

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    Chant: Sacred and Profane

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    A Tale of Two Praetorius(es)

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    Haydn Symphonies

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    Clara Wieck Schumann

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    Guillaume de Machaut

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    Fanny Mendelssohn

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    Archangelo Corelli

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    Notre Dame Organum

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    Handel Arias

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    Johann Adolf Hasse

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    Mozart String Quartets

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    Medieval Spanish Chant

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    G. B. Sammartini

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    Orlando Gibbons

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    C.P.E. Bach Sonatas

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    Die Schöne Müllerin

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