Sleeping Beauty Violin

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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JMLeclair Gravure de F. Lugi d'après Loir

Playlist 2022-11-13

The Baroque era in history spanned about 150 years – beginning in 1600 and ending in 1750. Over the course of that century-and-a-half, new techniques were developed for playing various musical instruments, and musical ensembles became larger and more varied, and musical forms evolved. To give you some perspective, you’ll hear music composed right at the end of the baroque period on Sunday Baroque this weekend.

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Sleeping Beauty Violin

Playlist 2021-06-27

A fine musical instrument should be played, right? Well, a 1704 Stradivarius violin was stashed away – barely played – for most of its existence. The pristine instrument was awakened from its long slumber, nicknamed the Sleeping Beauty, and purchased in 1995 for violinist Isabelle Faust to use. You’ll hear her play music on it by Johann Sebastian Bach on Sunday Baroque this weekend.

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portrait of Sara Levy by Anton Graff

Playlist 2019-04-14

For a long time after JS Bach’s death, his music wasn’t performed much. But a woman who’d studied with Bach’s son happened to own some of Bach’s manuscripts. And in 1829, her great-nephew organized a performance of the ST. MATTHEW PASSION, which reignited interest in the forgotten musician. Sunday Baroque will offer selections from Bach’s St. Matthew Passion.

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