Millennium of Music

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  • Location: Silver Spring, Maryland

Showcasing the sources and mainstreams of European music for the thousand years before the birth of Bach, Millennium of Music has been produced and hosted by Robert Aubry Davis since his first broadcasts in this specialty in 1975.

Series

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300 Pieces

The sources and mainstreams of European music for the thousand years before the birth of Bach: a Millennium of Music.

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Fundraiser episodes for Millennium of Music. Available only to subscribers of the weekly Millennium of Music series.


Pieces

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We have heard the superb Dutch ensemble extensively in the past of the program; this week, the first in a series of recordings dedicated to choirbo...

  • Added: Apr 10, 2023
  • Length: 58:59
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The Huelgas Ensemble recently tackled one of our favorite repertoires: polyphony from 14th century England, with music in manuscripts from Oxford, ...

  • Added: Apr 02, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
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The King’s Singers are back with a recording dedicated to two great English composers who died 400 years ago: Thomas Weelkes and William Byrd.

  • Added: Mar 26, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
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This Canadian ensemble, founded by tenor and baroque guitar soloists Bud Roach, has an extensive set of recordings mostly of 17th century repertoir...

  • Added: Mar 20, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
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The French ensemble Les Cris de Paris follows up its series on affect in the early Baroque (“Passions,” “Melancholia”) with an overview of sacred w...

  • Added: Mar 11, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
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The famous sub-label under the Musical Heritage Society had been revived with some lost rarities. This week: “John Dunstable: Sacred and Secular Mu...

  • Added: Feb 27, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
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The Cambridge-based ensemble De Profundis begins a set of recordings of all the masses and Magnificat settings by the famous 16th century Spanish c...

  • Added: Feb 25, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
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Denis Raisin-Dadre and his Doulce Memoire Ensemble are back with an album of music written on the death of the Queen Consort of France and famous p...

  • Added: Feb 18, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
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The brilliant lute performer and teacher Hopkinson Smith joins us (for the first time in some 40 years!) with his latest project, dedicated to Fran...

  • Added: Feb 11, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
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The latest project from Scott Metcalfe and the Blue Heron Ensemble and the instrumentalists of Les Délices reminds us how Lady Hope can counsel the...

  • Added: Feb 07, 2023
  • Length: 59:00