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.

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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.


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The famous sub-label under the Musical Heritage Society had been revived with some lost rarities. This week: "The Cries of London" with the Ambrosi...

  • Added: Feb 07, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
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The multi-voice masses of Alessandro Striggio, folk music from the British Isles, and “Handelian Pyrotechnics” with countertenor William Towers.

  • Added: Feb 07, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
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In honor of the 50th anniversary of their founding, the Huelgas Ensemble released a recording of composers familiar like Josquin and Gombert, and r...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2023
  • Length: 58:59
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The rarely-heard music of this Portuguese Renaissance composer has a sparkling new interpreters in the Ensemble Cupertinos and director Luis Toscan...

  • Added: Jan 08, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
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The ensemble Cappella Romana takes us to 1400, when Byzantine Emperor Manuel II Palaiologos, who sought foreign aid for besieged Constantinople, sp...

  • Added: Jan 02, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
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The famous sub-label under the Musical Heritage Society had been revived at year’s end with some lost rarities. Before the season ends, we share “...

  • Added: Dec 25, 2022
  • Length: 58:59
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The Miracles of St. Nicholas with the superb Ensemble Venance Fortunat, Palestrina with the Vienna Vocal Consort, and a Spanish Christmas with the ...

  • Added: Dec 18, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
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Our special Christmas centerpiece is the new reconstruction of what Monteverdi wrote in a 1616 letter was the “hard work on a Mass for Christmas Ev...

  • Added: Dec 09, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
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The latest by the Italian ensemble called La Reverdie (founded by two sisters) gives us “Splendors of the Marian Cult in Early Renaissance Ferrara”...

  • Added: Dec 03, 2022
  • Length: 59:01
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While we can recreate music for and by women in the middle ages and early Baroque, Musica Secreta has taken on the challenge of women’s music from ...

  • Added: Nov 25, 2022
  • Length: 58:59