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VOX NOSTRA WITH VLAD SMISHKEWYCH

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The list of unofficial Bachs grows with yet one more name for the Vox Nostra playlist: Elias Ammerbach, who died on this day in 1597. Although perhaps not as well known as Johann Sebastian, CPE Bach (or PDQ – or even my good friend Offenbach!), his music is part of the history of organ music. His 1583 volume, the ‘Book of Organ Tablature’, is filled with polyphonic arrangements of music popular in his time—including Senfl, Isaac, des Prez, Clemens non Papa, and Lassus—from sacred to secular. We’ll get to explore Ammerbach’s organ tablature, the vocal works that inspired it, and the legacy of keyboard music that followed, all on a morning’s Vox Nostra.

RTÉ lyric fm, Sunday 29th January, 7am-10am