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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304 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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The director of the Ora Singers returns to share music from the Passion and into Easter; part 2 takes us from Good Friday to Easter day itself.

  • Added: Mar 28, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
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The director of the Ora Singers returns to share music from the Passion and into Easter; part 1 takes us into Good Friday .

  • Added: Mar 23, 2021
  • Length: 58:59
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A new recording of the huge Tenebrae settings (in a three-CD set).

  • Added: Mar 15, 2021
  • Length: 58:58
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Views of the L’homme armé, rarely-recorded sacred works, and arrangements of Marian motets for lute.

  • Added: Mar 08, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
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Three recent releases trace Gesualdo’s madrigal writing from Book 2 (1594) to Book 6 (1611).

  • Added: Feb 28, 2021
  • Length: 58:59
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Love songs up to the early years of Louis XIV, and Charpentier’s journey to Rome.

  • Added: Feb 19, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
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A new recording of the much-discussed John Sheppard Media vita, Richard Egarr performing Sweelinck, and an Italian in Scotland.

  • Added: Feb 14, 2021
  • Length: 58:58
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The director of the Ora Singers returns to share music of love, sacred and profane.

  • Added: Feb 06, 2021
  • Length: 58:59
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Picking up where we left off last February, we continue our look at the courtly love song from the time of Louis XIII.

  • Added: Feb 04, 2021
  • Length: 58:59
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Dances from France, Italian double harp music , and “bizzarie” from 17th century England.

  • Added: Jan 24, 2021
  • Length: 59:00