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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Scott Metcalfe of the superb Boston-based ensemble takes us through the remarkable first publication of madrigals by this Franco-Flemish composer w...

  • Added: Aug 02, 2020
  • Length: 58:58
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Florence around 1350, the Piae Cantiones collection, and a view of 15th century German songbooks with the remarkable Corina Marti.

  • Added: Jul 26, 2020
  • Length: 58:59
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Adrian Willaert and his circle at San Marco, the Lamentations of Morales, and sacred song from around 1500 with The Boston Camerata.

  • Added: Jul 19, 2020
  • Length: 58:59
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Chant for Emperor Heinrich and his wife Cunigonde, troubadour nights, and the live last collaboration between Jan Gabarek and the Hilliard Ensemble

  • Added: Jul 12, 2020
  • Length: 58:58
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More music by women composers (secular this time), including Barbara Strozzi, Francesca Caccini, and Julie Pinel.

  • Added: Jul 05, 2020
  • Length: 58:59
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A rarely-recorded mass by Josquin, music for St. Catherine from St. Catherine’s College, Cambridge, and the almost unknown work of Johannes de Cleve.

  • Added: Jun 29, 2020
  • Length: 58:59
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The great English ensemble continues with Volume 8 of their Palestrina cycle, music from Rome in the 16th century, and the latest in the series of ...

  • Added: Jun 22, 2020
  • Length: 58:59
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Josquin’s Spanish legacy, a new release of the music of Diego Ortiz, and the Sablonara songbook.

  • Added: Jun 14, 2020
  • Length: 58:59
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The superb West Coast ensemble gives us music of Renaissance Crete and Cyprus, plus music as it would have been heard in the Hagia Sophia.

  • Added: Jun 08, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
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The Christophorus label gives us three CDs showcasing the lively musical scene at the court of the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I.

  • Added: May 31, 2020
  • Length: 58:59