Today’s Beautiful Music offering is by a Milanese woman who lived from 1593 until 1676, Claudia Francesca Rusca. She was a singer and organist, and was a nun at the Umiliate monastery of St. Caterina in Brera. You can read her biography below. Enjoy this lovely live performance from March 2020 featuring soprano Maria Yost, […]
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Today’s Beautiful Music is the Sinfonia from the opera PALLADE E MARTE, composed in 1713 by Maria Margherita Grimani. She was an Italian composer who worked in Vienna, was the first woman to have her opera performed at the Vienna court theater. This performance from the 1980s is given by New England Women’s Symphony, conducted
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Dutch violinist Janine Jansen has been fortunate to play on a number of extraordinary instruments throughout her career. Now she is featured in a new documentary about the violinmaker Stradivarius in which she plays a dozen of the fine instruments. You’ll hear Janine Jansen playing music by Bach on Sunday Baroque this weekend.
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Manuel José de Quirós provides today’s Beautiful Music. He was a Guatemalan musician in the baroque era whose jobs included working as chapel master of the Guatemala Cathedral choir and orchestra. of Luzid, fragante Rosa, performed by Marcela Redaelli, Cristina García Banegas, and Enrique Godoy. Luzid, fragante Rosa- MANUEL JOSÉ DE QUIRÓS~Guatemalan Baroque/Galant Music (S.XVIII)
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Lutenist Evangelina Mascardi provides today’s Beautiful Music. She plays baroque lute in this live performance of Johann Sebastian Bach’s Suite BWV 996 — it is both beautiful to hear and beautiful to see this gorgeous instrument up close. There’s also a link to Evangeline Mascardi’s biography so you can learn more about the marvelous
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Countertenor is the high adult male voice, and it’s a specialized range. There are relatively few countertenors, and Reginald Mobley is one of the world’s finest. I interviewed him recently, and there’s a link to our conversation below. And today’s Beautiful Music features Reginald Mobley singing Henry Purcell’s Birthday 1693 Ode for Queen Mary CROWN
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Award-winning American musician Richard Danielpour is a prolific composer, and many of his high-profile works have embraced timely, topical and historic subjects. In early 2020, Danielpour was deeply troubled by COVID-19. Suffering from insomnia and anxiety, he found solace in pianist Simone Dinnerstein’s Bach recordings. As he witnessed extraordinary heroism by so many people across
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What a pleasure to see and hear talented young musicians tackling monumental chamber music with such flair and ease. Today’s Beautiful Music is by Ludwig van Beethoven — the first movement of his Piano Trio in D major, op.70 #1 nicknamed ”Ghost.” It’s played by Trio Megrez – violinist Julia Musakova, cellist Sujari Britt,
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TU ES PETRUS is a sacred motet from 1572 by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina. When the vocal quartet New Your Polyphony performed the Beautiful Music, they invited their talented colleagues Jonathan Woody (bass-baritone), Tim Keeler ( countertenor), and Andrew Fuchs (tenor) to join them. Palestrina/ Tu es Petrus a 6 | New York Polyphony –
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Johann Sebastian Bach’s music for a single instrument has great intricacy that comes out of its simplicity. And when played by a an exceptional musician, it’s magic. Listen to this Beautiful Music by Bach — the courante from his Suite #1 in G for unaccompanied cello — played on the viola by the amazing Nokuthula
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