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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303 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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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
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The Chapel Royal choir sings Thomas Tomkins, a French ensemble gives us the devotional anthems of Purcell, and the rarely-heard sacred music of Hen...

  • Added: May 24, 2020
  • Length: 58:59
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Sacred works from convents and courts by women composers in the 17th century.

  • Added: May 17, 2020
  • Length: 58:59
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Motets from Saxony in 1603, music from the Thirty Years War, and Le Petite Bande performing Heinrich Schutz.

  • Added: May 10, 2020
  • Length: 58:59
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The elusive Fra Bernardo label is back with a two CD set concluding their series on the masses of Johannes Ockeghem.

  • Added: May 03, 2020
  • Length: 58:57
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The wonderful French ensemble takes us on a trip first to Golden Age Spain, then on to the New World, and finally back home for a celebration of Ra...

  • Added: Apr 26, 2020
  • Length: 58:58
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Motets of Melchior Vulpius, sacred concertos of Rosenmuller, and rare choral cantatas by Johann Samuel Welter.

  • Added: Apr 22, 2020
  • Length: 58:59
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Consort music of Matthew Locke, the theorbo old and new, and the Mystery Sonatas of Biber.

  • Added: Apr 19, 2020
  • Length: 59:00