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.


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This indispensable series on Carus of the complete works by the great German composer continues with a two-CD set of Psalm settings.

  • Added: Sep 16, 2019
  • Length: 58:59
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After a long absence from recording, the Baltimore Consort is back with music from Shakespeare’s plays (and a celebration of their 40th anniversary...

  • Added: Sep 08, 2019
  • Length: 58:59
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The endlessly inventive ensemble Dialogos and leader Karatina Livljanic have found a medieval saint’s tale that is a retelling of the life of the B...

  • Added: Sep 01, 2019
  • Length: 58:58
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The longtime director of the Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford Choir joins us once again with some of his remarkable history with English Choral musi...

  • Added: Aug 25, 2019
  • Length: 58:58
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The superb ensemble was a featured group at the Indianapolis Early Music Festival this year; co-founder Kivi Cahn-Lipman joins us to talk of their ...

  • Added: Aug 17, 2019
  • Length: 58:58
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We recently rediscovered one of our old programs that featured a recording Pomerium made 42 years ago; happily, the ensemble continues, and directo...

  • Added: Aug 06, 2019
  • Length: 58:58
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Scott Metcalfe and the Blue Heron Ensemble share a live performance of music from the Peterhouse Partbooks.

  • Added: Aug 02, 2019
  • Length: 58:59
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Chants of the Knights Templar, music for the Holy Grail, and the German prince and minnesinger Wizlav the Younger, whose music wound up in Norway.

  • Added: Jul 28, 2019
  • Length: 58:59
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Andrew Kirkman and his Binchois Consort are back with an amazing look at the 15th century English cult of St. Catherine, a revival inspired in part...

  • Added: Jul 21, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
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This time the remarkable German label gives us madrigals of Giovanni de Macque, sacred works of Johann Krieger, and works by an Italian compatriot ...

  • Added: Jul 14, 2019
  • Length: 58:59