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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305 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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The longest-serving conductor of this world-famous ensemble looks back on his work, and the service King's College has done for early music.

  • Added: May 13, 2019
  • Length: 58:59
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Suzi Digby joins us with the latest from her Ora Singers, featuring “the sensuous and highly-charged texts of the Song of Songs."

  • Added: May 12, 2019
  • Length: 58:58
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Musical illustrations for a 16th century treatise on ornamentation, harpsichord works of Scheidt and Scheidemann, and wind and hunting horn music ...

  • Added: May 02, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
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A Belgian ensemble sings Browne and Ashwell, the new Are Nova release celebrates Taverner and Fayrfax, and an American group gives us Elizabethan s...

  • Added: Apr 14, 2019
  • Length: 58:59
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Three views on the early Baroque, with music of Barbara Strozzi, a world-premiere recordings of counter-tenor arias, and the Grammy-award-winning A...

  • Added: Apr 13, 2019
  • Length: 58:59
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The latest from Jordi Savall tells the tale of the “greatest traveler of all time”, whose 14th century journey took him from Morocco to Afghanistan...

  • Added: Apr 07, 2019
  • Length: 58:59
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The Thysuis lute book, keyboard music from Renaissance Poland, and guitar works of Francesco Corbetta.

  • Added: Mar 31, 2019
  • Length: 58:59
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The great German label gives us a mass by Hieronymus Praetorius, oratorios by Carissimi, and sacred concertos on Psalm 31 by Johann Rosenmuller.

  • Added: Mar 15, 2019
  • Length: 58:59
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The excellent English ensemble gives us music of Palestrina and music of lamentation from Renaissance Portugal.

  • Added: Mar 13, 2019
  • Length: 58:59
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A recently discovered Italian Trecento manuscript, music from 1300, and four centuries of chant from the Birgittine Order.

  • Added: Mar 09, 2019
  • Length: 58:58