Suzanne Bona

Today’s Beautiful Music starts off your work week with some sweet and tender music. It’s the adagio movement from the Clarinet Trio op.114 by Johannes Brahms. (Adagio is a musical term for a slow tempo.) This December 2022 concert took place at Teatro Victoria Eugenia in San Sebastián, Spain. The performers are clarinetist Luis Camara, […]

A news story from earlier this week has inspired my choice of today’s Beautiful Music. NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter has been exploring Mars for three years, far outlasting the original expectations for its mission, and now its mission has ended. You can use this link to learn more about Ingenuity and its mission. Today’s Beautiful Music

Today’s Beautiful Music features a talented young cellist — Miriam K. Smith — playing a 1926 composition by Ralph Vaughan Williams. With pianist Ming-Li Liu, Miriam performs Six Studies in English Folksong. Born in 2006, the Cincinnati native cellist made her concerto debut at the tender age of 8, she has performed as soloist with

Emilie Mayer was a German composer who lived from 1812-1883. She started piano lessons as a toddler, but didn’t start composing until she was 28 years old. That’s when her father died, and she was free to pursue her music. Emilie Mayer was quite prolific as a composer, and today’s Beautiful Music is her piano

Hungarian-born musician Johann Sigismund Kusser lived from 1660 until 1727, and worked as a conductor and composer in Germany, France, and Ireland. Today’s Beautiful Music is the 3rd Orchestral Suite (subtitled La Cicala della cetra d’Eunomio) by Johann Sigismund Kusser played by Tempesta di Mare Baroque Orchestra. You can use the additional link below to

Today’s Beautiful Music is great FUN … with one of the world’s most talented violinists, Hilary Hahn. She is the guest with TwoSet Violin. They are a (talented) musical comedy duo: violinists Brett Yang and Eddy Chen. Not only will this show what a phenomenally talented musician Hilary Hahn is and what a voluminous repertory

Voices of Music is a San Francisco-based period instrument ensemble. They have a terrific collection of online performances, and today’s Beautiful Music features one of them. This is Voices of Music’s passionate concert presentation of Johann Sebastian Bach’s BRANDENBURG CONCERTO #3 BWV 1048.

Today’s Beautiful Music harkens back to the Medieval and Renaissance eras. It’s a program of music for Irish harps and Medieval harps featuring harpist Elena Polonska, vièle and recorder player Guy Durand, and recorder player Roger Cotte. You can also use the links below to learn more about different types of harps. https://www.britannica.com/art/Irish-harp https://caslabs.case.edu/medren/medieval-instruments/harp-medieval/

Today’s Beautiful Music is from South America during the baroque era. Tupasy Maria (Madre de Dios) is anonymous music from around the year 1691. Jessica Bogado performs with Paraguay Barroco, led by Alexandre Chauffaud.

I love clever musical arrangements/covers of familiar music, and there is a genre of medieval covers that I find particularly enjoyable and fun to hear. Today’s Beautiful Music is a medieval style arrangement and orchestration by Samuel Kim of Ramin Djawadi’s theme music for Game of Thrones.