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.


Pieces

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Our annual collection of musical thoughts and reflections on the year passed (and the one to come).

  • Added: Dec 17, 2018
  • Length: 58:59
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Cantatas from one of Bach’s predecessors at Leipzig, early 17th century Spanish villancicos, and seasonal music from the Danish Pietist movement.

  • Added: Dec 09, 2018
  • Length: 58:59
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The Ebor Singers return with their first release (after the popular "Music for Troubled Times”) with Christmas Music from the time of the English C...

  • Added: Dec 02, 2018
  • Length: 58:58
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A medieval service for St. Nicholas, Renaissance works from the new ORA recording, and Apollo’s Fire with "Christmas on Sugarloaf Mountain."

  • Added: Nov 25, 2018
  • Length: 58:59
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Three recordings looking at the crossroads of music and trade between Europe and Islamic countries.

  • Added: Nov 18, 2018
  • Length: 58:59
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Madrigals and motets around 1600, 17th century English ayres and songs, and the latest from Les Arts Florissants.

  • Added: Nov 11, 2018
  • Length: 58:59
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The Brabant Ensemble is back with a lesser-known contemporary of Josquin, who also worked at the court of Louis XII (who praised Fevin very highly).

  • Added: Nov 04, 2018
  • Length: 58:58
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The medieval fiddle, lais and cantigas from France and Spain., and 13th and early 14th century music from the great cathedrals.

  • Added: Oct 28, 2018
  • Length: 58:59
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Francesco Landini as seen by eastern musicians, more from the Irish Baroque, and the roots of popular song in Valencia.

  • Added: Oct 27, 2018
  • Length: 49:16
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Francesco Landini as seen by eastern musicians, more from the Irish Baroque, and the roots of popular song in Valencia.

  • Added: Oct 21, 2018
  • Length: 58:59