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Millennium of Music
Wednesdays at 10:00 pm
Millennium of Music is the world's longest running program featuring early music. Host and producer Robert Aubry Davis regularly presents music from major European music festivals. For more information on this program, visit www.millenniumofmusic.com. WFMT airs Millennium of Music on Wednesday nights from 10-11 PM unless special programming changes the air time.
Program Schedule
January 9, 2013
The Monks of Chevetogne and the Songs of Light
The latest recording by our friends from Belgium takes us through the church year with the theme of light: a welcome to the New Year.
January 16, 2013
Tell Me All Your Thoughts...
French Renaissance composer Jean Mouton set a chanson by his remarkable older compatriot Loyset Compère, and that rare and amazing piece is the theme of a new recording by the Tallis Scholars.
January 23, 2013
Two new CDs
The Estonian ensemble Vox Clamantis with a superb medieval program, and Arianna Savall's new disc dedicated to her mother, soprano and early-music specialist Montserrat Figueras.
January 30, 2013
A Time Will Tell
Donald Grieg of the Orlando Consort has penned a witty take on modern early-music scholarship, performance, and the time we all so earnestly try to recreate -- we'll hear the author and the music from the book.
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