1737 Baumeister organ at Maihingen Cloister, Germany

Taken from many nations, the music on this week’s program adds a distinctive flavor to our Christmas celebration.

Michael Barone shares his field recordings of some exceptional historic instruments in spectacular Bavarian Baroque churches, and invites you to join his tour there in May 2006.

A miscellany of ‘early music’ from the fifteenth through the early 18th centuries.

Some lively aural reminders of the fun we had during our recent visit to southern Germany and beyond.

…select shorts of some of the remarkable instruments we heard during a 2006 tour in southern Germany.

…fountains, flowing rivers, and frothy waves, in a bathtub or lapping upon a south sea island, are but a few of the inspirations behind this collection of ‘water music.’