Holiday Gift List

Playlist 2023-12-31

The final Sunday of the year is the perfect time to revisit some of the best baroque recordings of 2023. Sunday Baroque this weekend will feature some of them, including a new recording of Mandolin Concertos, and another chance for you to audition selections from the Sunday Baroque Holiday Gift list. It’s the year in review on Sunday Baroque this weekend.

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Playlist 2023-12-17

It’s all too easy to be stressed out at this time of year. So you can soothe your jangled nerves and chill out with Sunday Baroque this weekend, listening to pastoral baroque music: cheerful and idyllic, and far removed from all the chaos. The music evokes life in the countryside, with shepherds herding their flocks and playing flutes – it’s on Sunday Baroque this weekend.

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Playlist 2023-12-10

In 1746 George Frideric Handel was commissioned to compose an oratorio for a victory celebration. He based the work on the heroic story of Judah Maccabee – the Jewish leader who defended his country from invasion and whose story informs the celebration of Hanukkah. You’ll hear selections from Handel’s heroic Judas Maccabaeus oratorio on Sunday Baroque this week.

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Playlist 2023-12-03

The principal oboist for the Berlin Philharmonic LOVES baroque music, and LOVES to play chamber music. Albrecht Mayer has a new recording called BACH GENERATIONS – it has music by Johann Sebastian Bach, one of his older cousins, and two of his musical sons, and it’s on the 2023 Sunday Baroque Holiday Gift List. You can audition a selection from the album on Sunday Baroque this weekend.

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Playlist 2023-11-26

Every year at this time, Suzanne Bona compiles her suggestions for holiday gift giving for music lovers. Starting this week, you can audition selections from the 2023 Holiday Gift List. You’ll hear a spectacular solo guitar recording from a young French guitar virtuoso and Neapolitan baroque cello music. It’s on Sunday Baroque this weekend.

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2023 Holiday Gift List

Every year at this time, I compile a list of some of my favorite recent recordings to recommend for your holiday gift giving. Now more than ever we need to focus on the things that connect us, the things that bring light and positivity into our lives, and I think these musical selections are a great place to start.

Whether you choose to add any of them to your library, give them as gifts, or simply enjoy auditioning them each week, I hope you will enjoy discovering these wonderful musicians and recordings with me over the last weeks of 2023.

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Infusion Baroque credit Danylo Bobyk

Playlist 2023-01-08

This weekend, you’ll have one more chance to hear a few highlights from the 2022 Sunday Baroque Holiday Gift List including selections from Infusion Baroque’s recording of music by Women composers and Ensemble Amarillis’ recording of the cantata JUDITH by Frenchwoman Elizabeth Claude Jacquet de la Guerre on Sunday Baroque this weekend.

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Playlist 2022-12-25

Christmas falls on a Sunday this year, and Sunday Baroque is planning a special day of music to celebrate the season. It’s the perfect, sparkling playlist for this merry day featuring beloved Christmas carols that date back to the baroque era and earlier … joyful baroque Christmas Concertos … and music inspired by the arrival of the Winter Solstice. Spice up your holiday with Sunday Baroque this weekend.

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Elisabeth_Jacquet_de_La_Guerre by Francois de Troy

Playlist 2022-12-18

Every year, Sunday Baroque host Suzanne Bona makes a list of some of her favorite recent recordings for the Sunday Baroque Holiday Gift list to help you generate ideas for the music lover on your list. You can audition a selection from a new recording of music by a talented baroque era Frenchwoman. It’s one of the new releases you’ll hear on Sunday Baroque.

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