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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2 Pieces

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


Pieces

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This time the Italian early music conductor and performer takes us from Alessandro Scarlatti to Vivaldi and on to Bach

  • Added: Sep 14, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
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The earliest Dutch polyphony, Antwerp in the 16th century, and a journey in the footsteps of Herman Hollanders with his Parnassus ecclesiasticus.

  • Added: Sep 13, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
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Before we leave the Josquin 500th services, we hear three recent takes on his work, including a radical reassessment of the composer as a pop icon ...

  • Added: Sep 10, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
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We presented an extensive set of memorial works after 9/11 in 2001; we remember 20 years later with Mozarabic chant, the Requiem of Simone de Bonef...

  • Added: Aug 31, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
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More from the vast Warner archives, including Josquin’s secular works.

  • Added: Aug 28, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
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In honor of the 500th anniversary of Josquin’s death, Warner has issued a 34 CD set of rare and mostly out-of-print material from their vast catalo...

  • Added: Aug 18, 2021
  • Length: 59:01
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Considered perhaps the finest Monteverdi interpreter of our time, the Italian director of the Concerto Italiano guides us through the vast 1610 Mar...

  • Added: Aug 11, 2021
  • Length: 59:01
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Les Arts Florissants are back with Volume 3 of their “Airs sérieux et à boire” series; a remarkable tribute to the music inspired by the poetry by ...

  • Added: Aug 06, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
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On his penultimate journey to us with the Tallis Scholars, Peter Phillips shares the final recordings in his extraordinary and award-winning Josqu...

  • Added: Aug 03, 2021
  • Length: 59:01
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The great Italian early music conductor and performer visits us as we hear some composers at the cusp of the Baroque: Luca Marenzio, Alessandro Str...

  • Added: Aug 02, 2021
  • Length: 59:00