Millennium of Music
January 2005 Schedule

#05-01: 12/27/04: Chant Wars: Two ensembles--Dialogos and Sequentia--give an idea of a 9th century confrontation that took place between the cantors of the Carolingian emperors and various European regional song traditions (from the Holland Festival of Early Music at Utrecht 2004).

#05-02: 1/3/05: The Acathist--Standing Hymn to the Virgin: After a return pilgrimage to the Benedictine Abbey of Chevetogne in Belgium, we have brought back a stunning new body of recordings, as this unique group continues its mission of uniting the ancient division between western & eastern Christianity through musical service.

#05-03: 1/10/05: Fiddle Noise: Andrew Manze brought the English Concert to the 2004 Holland Festival of Early Music at Utrecht for his contribution to the festivities for the 350th anniversary of the birth of Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber. We'll hear how Biber (and his Salzburg predecessor Schmelzer) advanced the art of the violin.

#05-04: 1/17/05: Antoine Busnois--Missa O Crux lignum: We continue or celebration of the wealth of music from the Lowlands with a new recording from the masterful Orlando Consort. After a career with Charles the Bold of Burgundy (until Charles' untimely end), Busnois, like so many others, wound up in Bruges.

#05-05: 1/24/05: Cheese and Mustard: Our friends the Suspicious Cheese Lords are back with another project of previously-unrecorded music. This time, some of the masterful works by that greatest of Swiss composers, Ludwig Senfl.
#05-06: 1/31/05: Hildegard von Bingen: The Origin of Fire: We return with our chance to present a mixed blessing--the new Anonymous 4 recording dedicated to Hildegard--but time with the ladies talking about why, after 18 glorious years, they have decided to disband as an ensemble (national broadcast premiere).