The title character of Jean Philippe Rameau’s opera-ballet PLATEE is an over-the-top, egotistical swamp beast. It’s the absurd mythological story of mischievous gods playing a mean joke on Platee. A suite from Rameau’s offbeat comic opera is a highlight of Sunday Baroque this weekend.
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Florentine composer Giuseppe Valentini was a painter and poet, as well as an outstanding violinist and composer. We might know more about him if he hadn’t been overshadowed by other musicians such as Antonio Vivaldi and Arcangelo Corelli. You’ll hear some of Giuseppe Valentini’s lovely music – a concerto featuring FOUR violins — on Sunday Baroque this weekend.
Lutenist Thomas Dunford is the son of two professional musicians who started performing professionally as a teenager. Jean Rondeau heard a harpsichord on the radio as a 6-year-old and told HIS parents he wanted to learn to make that sound, too. You’ll hear the two musicians collaborating on French Baroque music on Sunday Baroque this weekend.
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Tine Thing Helseth is a Norwegian trumpet player, and the daughter of a trumpet-playing mom who took her along to rehearsals from the time she was only 6 weeks old. She has forged a unique path, playing with major orchestras all over the world as a soloist AND regularly playing at jazz clubs in Norway. You can hear Tine Thing Helseth play a baroque era trumpet concerto on Sunday Baroque this weekend.
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It’s a hectic, noisy world filled with distractions and responsibilities all week long. This weekend Sunday Baroque will help you turn down and tune out the noise with serene and contemplative music of reflection. The offerings include an uplifting motet for 40 voices by 16th century English church musician Thomas Tallis. Enjoy some peaceful sounds on Sunday Baroque this weekend.
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For many composers, making music was only a part-time profession. Two of the composers whose music you’ll hear today were nuns from their teenage years and continued to compose music from the convent. You’ll hear music composed by a range of those with other primary vocations on Sunday Baroque this weekend.
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Francesca Caccini was a singer, lutenist and composer born in 1587 – so she was active as a musician right in the early years of the baroque era that began around 1600. You can hear one of Francesca Caccini’s compositions on Sunday Baroque this weekend.
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Johann Sebastian Bach’s Six Suites for Unaccompanied Cello are such exquisite compositions that it’s not only cellists who are eager to play them. Zachary Carrettín is a violinist, violist, and conductor. He has a new recording of Bach’s Cello Suites played on viola, and he joined Suzanne to talk about it, and about his varied
Although it’s a French word, Polonaise in music is a type of Polish dance tune. Its roots date back to 16th century, and it took off in popularity. You’ll hear a polonaise composed by an 18th century Russian composer on Sunday Baroque this weekend.
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Many prominent Baroque era musicians lived long, full lives, some promising musical talents from the Baroque era died quite young. A rising star in Italy – Giovanni Pergolesi – succumbed to tuberculosis at 26. Another Italian talent, Anna Bon, only lived into her late 20s. We’ll celebrate what they accomplished in their abbreviated careers on Sunday Baroque this weekend.
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