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.

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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.


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The Cambridge-based ensemble De Profundis begins a set of recordings of all the masses and Magnificat settings by the famous 16th century Spanish c...

  • Added: Feb 25, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
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Denis Raisin-Dadre and his Doulce Memoire Ensemble are back with an album of music written on the death of the Queen Consort of France and famous p...

  • Added: Feb 18, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
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The brilliant lute performer and teacher Hopkinson Smith joins us (for the first time in some 40 years!) with his latest project, dedicated to Fran...

  • Added: Feb 11, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
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The latest project from Scott Metcalfe and the Blue Heron Ensemble and the instrumentalists of Les Délices reminds us how Lady Hope can counsel the...

  • Added: Feb 07, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
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The famous sub-label under the Musical Heritage Society had been revived with some lost rarities. This week: "The Cries of London" with the Ambrosi...

  • Added: Feb 07, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
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The multi-voice masses of Alessandro Striggio, folk music from the British Isles, and “Handelian Pyrotechnics” with countertenor William Towers.

  • Added: Feb 07, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
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In honor of the 50th anniversary of their founding, the Huelgas Ensemble released a recording of composers familiar like Josquin and Gombert, and r...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2023
  • Length: 58:59
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The rarely-heard music of this Portuguese Renaissance composer has a sparkling new interpreters in the Ensemble Cupertinos and director Luis Toscan...

  • Added: Jan 08, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
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The ensemble Cappella Romana takes us to 1400, when Byzantine Emperor Manuel II Palaiologos, who sought foreign aid for besieged Constantinople, sp...

  • Added: Jan 02, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
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The famous sub-label under the Musical Heritage Society had been revived at year’s end with some lost rarities. Before the season ends, we share “...

  • Added: Dec 25, 2022
  • Length: 58:59