Suzanne Bona

RITORNA, O CARO is an aria from George Frideric Handel’s opera  RODELINDA, REGINA DE’ LONGOBARDI. Today’s Beautiful Music is a ravishing performance of the aria by soprano Jeanine De Bique with the Houston Grand Opera Orchestra, conducted by Patrick Summers. There’s also a link to the Trinidadian soprano’s website so you can learn more about […]

I love the purity and clarity of Johann Sebastian Bach’s solo violin music, and I love having the opportunity to watch (as well as hear) a gifted musician play them! Michigan native Jordan Curry gave this performance of the first movement of Bach’s Sonata #1 in g BWV in May, 2018. You can also read

Rosa Giacinta Badalla was a Milanese composer who lived from c.1660-c.1710. She was also a Benedictine nun, and we have only a small number of her lovely  compositions — a collection of motets and a pair of cantatas. This is Beautiful Music by Rosa Giacinta Badalla — her solo motet NON PLANGETE — performed by

On August 1, 1714 England’s Queen Anne died. For her funeral service, some of William Croft’s music was performed. (Croft’s music was also played at the April 2021 funeral of Prince Philip) Today’s Beautiful Music features The Madrigal Singers led Itay Berckovitch, with organist Marisa Meckier, performing Croft’s BURIAL SENTENCES. William Croft (1678-1727) – Burial

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,

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

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)

  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

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

  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,