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Playlist 2023-08-27

For their recording PEACE IN OUR TIME, Reginald Mobley and Agave Baroque explored Music of Love and Loss in the Shadow of the Thirty Years’ War. You can enjoy a bit of PEACE IN OUR TIME this weekend – it includes a moving compositions by Johann Christoph Bach — who was Johann Sebastian Bach’s older cousin – and you’ll hear it on Sunday Baroque.

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Playlist 2023-08-20

August is National Water Quality Month – an annual reminder of the need to protect our most precious and vital natural resource. Antonio Vivaldi did HIS part to pay respect to water – he composed SEVERAL Concertos with the subtitle “The Storm at Sea.” … you’ll hear one of them along with some of George Frideric Handel’s Water Music on Sunday Baroque this weekend.

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Playlist 2023-08-13

Rochelle Sennet is a pianist, teacher, and music scholar who plays a wide variety of music. She’s working on a recording series called BACH TO BLACK, which showcases performances of compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach as well as Black composers. You can hear Rochelle Sennet’s beautiful artistry playing one of Bach’s Keyboard Partitas this weekend on Sunday Baroque.

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Playlist 2023-07-30

A variety of interesting new recordings have been released in 2023, and Sunday Baroque will give you a chance to sample a few of them. We’ll feature a phenomenal German violinist playing music by an Italian baroque composer … a young French guitar virtuoso playing music by Johann Sebastian Bach … and other delightful new recordings. It’s on Sunday Baroque this weekend.

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Playlist 2023-07-16

During the baroque era in the 17th and 18th centuries, people didn’t have the ability to travel as far and wide as we do today. Anything unfamiliar was seen as “exotic” or “foreign” and could be a source of great fascination and inspiration for baroque era musicians. Georg Philipp Telemann portrayed his impressions of the Swiss, the Muscovites, the Turks and the Portuguese in his FOLK OVERTURE on Sunday Baroque this weekend.

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Bastille Day 2015

Playlist 2023-07-09

France’s kings were huge music lovers and they employed some pretty terrific musicians to entertain them – particularly during the height of the baroque era. They had numerous ensembles featuring the best musicians from France and beyond. You’ll hear music by some of France’s most esteemed Baroque era musicians in anticipation of the July 14th Bastille Day holiday on Sunday Baroque this week.

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Fireworks

Playlist 2023-07-02

As we mark our nation’s birthday with Independence Day this long holiday weekend, Sunday Baroque will host an All-American celebration. You’ll hear some of the greatest hits of the 18th century played by US musical ensembles based in Washington DC, New York, Pittsburgh, Seattle, and Chicago. The musical state of the union is strong, as you’ll hear for yourself on Sunday Baroque.

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Playlist 2023-06-25

Guitarist Sharon Isbin recently added another honor to her long list of awards: she was inducted into the 2023 Guitar Foundation of America Hall of Fame and received their Artistic Achievement Award. You can hear the Grammy Award-winning musician playing some 16th century solos on Sunday Baroque this weekend.

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