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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A compilation from the Ensemble Gilles Binchois, chant from the time of Bernard of Clairvaux, and music from medieval Finland and Sweden.

  • Added: Feb 03, 2020
  • Length: 58:59
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Two recordings of Courtly Airs with the Zephyrus Flutes and Le Poème harmonique, and the Royal Ballet of the Night from 1653.

  • Added: Jan 26, 2020
  • Length: 58:58
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The History of St. Martin, 1558; Marian music of the early Italian Baroque; and mandolin compositions by Filippo Sauli.

  • Added: Jan 19, 2020
  • Length: 58:59
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The beautiful compositions of Waclaw z Szamotuly, Polish lute music, and celebratory works for the Union of Lublin treaty of 1569.

  • Added: Jan 12, 2020
  • Length: 58:59
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A new boxed set from Jordi Savall’s label gives us a musical portrait of Juan Sebastian Elkano, who completed the voyage Magellan did not.

  • Added: Jan 05, 2020
  • Length: 58:58
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One of our favorite ensembles, the Gothic Voices, remind us of the beauty of a Medieval Christmas.

  • Added: Dec 30, 2019
  • Length: 58:59
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Medieval Christmas in Prague, Strasbourg in the middles ages and Renaissance, and a Swedish Folk Christmas.

  • Added: Dec 22, 2019
  • Length: 58:59
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25 Years ago, Paul McCreesh gave us a spectacular recording of a Christmas mass as it would have been heard in 1620; last year, he created a new ve...

  • Added: Dec 16, 2019
  • Length: 58:59
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The Margaretha Consort with a German Christmas, Schutz’s Christmas Story with the Yale Schola Cantorum, and cantata by Buxtehude and Telemann.

  • Added: Dec 08, 2019
  • Length: 58:59
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Advent from King’s College, London, carols from the Gesualdo Six, and Christmas at St. George’s Windsor.

  • Added: Dec 02, 2019
  • Length: 58:59