Suzanne Bona

Pianist Simone Dinnerstein is an innovative musician who pursues interesting, multi-disciplinary collaborations. Today’s Beautiful Music highlights one of those partnerships: Simone Dinnerstein with American dancer and choreographer Pam Tanowitz. This is their collaboration on Johann Sebastian Bach’s GOLDBERG VARIATIONS.  

Enjoy this Beautiful Music by George Frideric Handel — his ALEXANDER’S FEAST Concerto Grosso — played by Seattle Baroque. Music Director Ingrid Matthews plays violin, and Artistic Director Byron Schenkman plays harpsichord. This is from a live concert performance on March 27, 2010 at Town Hall Seattle Handel: Concerto Grosso “Alexander’s Feast”: Andante non presto

Today’s Beautiful Music is a live concert performance from Tallahassee, Florida from June 6, 2021. The spectacular performers are countertenor Reginald Mobley with the Tallahassee Bach Parley, whose members are violinists Valerie Arsenault & Minyoung Cho, violists Melissa Brewer & Brian Arsenault, cellist Kim Jones, bassist Melanie Punter, and harpsichordist Charles E. Brewer. The concert

Today’s Beautiful Music is from 18th century Lima, Peru. Composer and organist Jose de Orejon y Aparicio lived from approximately 1706-1765, and worked at Lima Cathedral. This is his Contrapunto a 4 a la Concepción de Nuestra Señora, performed by Cantoría de la Basílica de Nuestra Señora del Socorro. Contrapunto, a 4-JOSÉ DE OREJÓN Y

I loved seeing talented musicians turning a challenging time during quarantine to redirect their performing in new ways. Thomas Carroll is a masterful clarinetist who specializes in historical instruments. He is also an instrument maker. This Beautiful Music features Thomas Carroll playing all the parts of his own arrangement for three clarinets and two basset

  Today you’ll enjoy a beautiful performance of Beautiful Music by Gaspard Le Roux, who lived from approximately 1670-1706. Harpsichordist JungHae Kim plays Gaspard Le Roux’s CHACONNE on an instrument made by Kevin Fryer, based on a harpsichord from 1681 built by Vaudry.  JungHae Kim is also an avid skier, so make sure you also

  Wait until you hear this phenomenally talented young bassoon player! Today’s Beautiful Music features 13 year old (!) Kevin Zephyrin from a 2018 competition. He is playing the first movement of Carl Maria von Weber’s Concerto for Bassoon and Orchestra in F Op.75 with Orchestra of Camerata New Jersey. You can also read more

Bolivian violinist and scholar Karin Cuéllar Rendon provides today’s Beautiful Music. The Montreal-based musician plays Georg Philip Telemann’s FANTASIA IN Bb for solo violin, one of 12 Fantasias for Solo Violin, TWV 40:14–25, published in Hamburg in 1735. En Casa: Karin Cuéllar – Fantasia in B-flat Major, Largo and Allegro (Telemann) – YouTube Research Alive:

Today’s Beautiful Music is the 3rd English Suite by Johann Sebastian Bach played by pianist Garrick Ohlsson. He is a particular expert in music by Frederic Chopin — first American winner of the Chopin International Piano Competition in 1970 — and (full disclosure!) the recording from that competition sparked my passion for classical music when

This Viola Concerto by Georg Philip Telemann is so special, and this performance of it is, too. Tomoe Badiarova is the soloist with Bremer Barockorchester from a live performance of Beautiful Music at Unser Lieben Frauen Church in Bremen on November 21st, 2015.