1026: As simple as do-re-mi

The year is 1026, Italy. A monk called Guido d'Arezzo causes a musical revolution when he designs a way to notate and share music. His invention of the stave - and the notion of do-re-mi-fa-soh - allows music to be written down and shared. It also ensures the survival of the transcendent music of abbess and polymath Hildegard of Bingen, one of the first composers whose name we know.

Gillian Moore is joined by a roster of distinguished historians for this major new BBC Radio 3 series, charting a course through 1000 years of classical music history. For the first eight programmes, historian Michael Wood is in the chair, as together they explore the bold new sound worlds of the Middle Ages and Renaissance.

Producer: David Fay
Academic Consultant: Professor Laura Tunbridge, University of Oxford
Story Consultant: Kate Leys
Series Editor for BBC Audio: Emma Harding

Key Changes theme tune composed by Joseph Howard and performed by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, conducted by Kerem Hasan.

MUSIC DETAILS

Anonymous: Ut queant laxis
BBC Singers
Sofi Jeannin (conductor)

Richard Rodgers: Do-Re-Mi (The Sound of Music)
Julie Andrews (voice)
Studio Orchestra and Cast

Anonymous: Vexilla Regis
BBC Singers
Sofi Jeannin (conductor)

Anonymous: In dies resurrectionis (Old Roman Chant)
Ensemble Organum
Marcel Pérès (director)

Gustav Holst: The Hymn of Jesus (Prelude)
Hallé Choir
Hallé Youth Choir
Hallé
Mark Elder (conductor)

James MacMillan: Miserere
Marian Consort
Rory McCleary (conductor)

James MacMillan: Gaude, Gaude (Veni, Veni Emanuel)
Evelyn Glennie (percussion)
Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Jukka-Pekka Sarasate (conductor)

James MacMillan: Sedebit domnius rex (The Strathclyde Motets)
The Sixteen
Harry Christophers (conductor)

James MacMillan: Since it was the day of preparation… (Conclusion and Postlude)
Hebrides Ensemble
Synergy Vocals

Anonymous: Dies Irae chant
BBC Singers
Owain Park (conductor)

Hector Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique (5th mvt)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Ryan Wigglesworth (conductor)

Hildegard of Bingen: Ave generosa, gloriosa
Margaret Philpot (alto)

Hildegard of Bingen: Ordo virtutem (excerpt)
Sequentia

Hildegard of Bingen: O magne Pater
Sabine Lutzenberger (soprano and bells)

Hildegard of Bingen arr. Sarah Kirkland Snider: O virtus Sapientiae
Emily d’Angelo (mezzo soprano)
Kuss Quartet