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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Rafael Sánchez Guevara is a viola da gamba player and cellist based in his hometown of Mexico City. Suzanne discovered one of his exquisite performances on YouTube and featured it on her daily BEAUTIFUL MUSIC blog. She connected with the musician about his early introduction to music, his passion for the baroque era, and his
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In addition to the many familiar instruments in a band or orchestra, there are lots of other more obscure instruments, especially in baroque and early music groups. Take “viola d’amore” for example – maybe you’ve never even heard of it, but composers such as Johann Sebastian Bach, Georg Philipp Telemann and Antonio Vivaldi used the instrument in some of their music. If you’d like to hear how some of these unusual instruments sound, listen to Sunday Baroque this weekend.
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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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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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For many years, violinist Jeanne Lamon was concertmaster of top period orchestras across Europe and North America, and her superb musicianship earned her a 33 year tenure as music director of Toronto’s Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra until her retirement in 2014. The remarkable musician died last month, and Sunday Baroque will celebrate her remarkable life and artistry this weekend.
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Dr. Joyce Chen is an award-winning harpsichordist who performs frequently as a soloist and in various ensembles in the northeast US, across the country, and internationally. She is a woman of many talents, interests and accomplishments, and Suzanne was fortunate to speak with her about some of them, including her pandemic-era apprenticeship in making her
Francesco Maria Veracini was an 18th century violin “superstar” who toured Europe playing for his fans, and turned down opportunities to work for royal patrons because he was so eager to travel and play on his own terms. You’ll hear another violin “superstar” – Rachel Barton Pine — playing one of Francesco Maria Veracini’s ACADEMIC SONATAS on Sunday Baroque this weekend.
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Bassoonist Andrew Brady is at the top of the top tier instrumentalists. Immediately after graduating from the prestigious Colburn School in Los Angeles he won the audition to become Principal Bassoonist in the Louisiana Philharmonic in 2013. Soon after, he earned the Principal Bassoon job in the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. The young virtuoso has also
France’s kings were important patrons of the arts and employed some of the best musicians to entertain them. With Bastille Day coming up on July 14th, you’ll music by some of France’s most esteemed early French musicians on Sunday Baroque this week.
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