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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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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Since her 1984 debut with the Chicago Symphony at age 10, American violinist Rachel Barton Pine has been a trailblazer. Her musical tastes are broad and inclusive – from the baroque era, through all the major classical and romantic works, to contemporary commissions, and heavy metal – and she’s a seasoned soloist and chamber musician. Rachel
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You know the saying that, “Necessity is the mother of invention.” This weekend you’ll hear performances by a few musicians who live by that rule, including an oboist and a clarinetist who each crafted new music for their instruments by excerpting from their favorite baroque composers. There were even some specialty musical instruments invented by performers. You’ll hear these clever approaches to music-making on Sunday Baroque.
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Every December Sunday Baroque host Suzanne Bona compiles a list of suggested recordings you might want to put on your gift list. And every week throughout the month, you have a chance to audition these recent releases. This year’s List includes an exciting performance by Apollo’s Fire Baroque Orchestra of the SPRING Concerto by Antonio Vivaldi, and it’s one of the highlights on Sunday Baroque this weekend.
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Every year at around this time, Suzanne Bona creates her Sunday Baroque Holiday Gift list of recordings that are worthy of your consideration for gift giving. This weekend is your first chance to audition a few of her picks, which include a thrilling recording of Antonio Vivaldi’s FOUR SEASONS by Apollo’s Fire … and a new recording of music by a 17th century Frenchwoman. It’s on Sunday Baroque this week.
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Every year at this time, I compile a list of some of my favorite recent recordings to recommend for your holiday gift giving. For many years the goal has been pretty straightforward: to give you practical guidance and take away a little bit of the stress of getting ready for the holiday season, which can
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Masaaki Suzuki is an organist, harpsichordist, and conductor. The Kobe, Japan native became a church organist as a teenager, and pursued his musical studies in Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands, before returning home to found the Bach Collegium of Japan. You’ll hear Masaaki Suzuki leading his ensemble playing music by their namesake on Sunday Baroque this weekend.
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Brooklyn native Eric Rice did not set out to become a professional musician and musicologist. He discovered early music while studying at Bowdoin College and, after four years as a schooner captain at the South Street Seaport Museum, he earned his PhD in Musicology and a Certificate in Medieval and Renaissance studies from Columbia University.
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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