Suzanne Bona

Venezuelan conductor Rafael Payare was recently named Music Director of Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal starting with the 2022-23 season. His first instrument was the French horn, and both he and his brother participated in El Sistema, which is a free music program for young children from highly impoverished backgrounds. Payare worked his way up to […]

This live performance from August 2019 of Beautiful Music is a display of great virtuosity. It’s also great FUN — to hear and to watch! The three singers — countertenors Kangmin Justin Kim, Jake Arditti, and Carlo Vistoli sing Orlando’s aria “Nel profondo cieco mondo” from Antonio Vivaldi’s opera ORLANDO FURIOSO. (23) KANGMIN JUSTIN KIM,

Such Beautiful Music by George Frideric Handel, so beautifully sung by soprano Wendy Waller. It’s the soprano aria HOW BEAUTIFUL ARE THE FEET from Handel’s oratorio MESSIAH.  In addition to hearing Ms. Waller’s performance, you can read the text below, and you’ll find a link to her website. (23) Wendy Waller sings “How Beautiful are

One of the defining aesthetics of the baroque was the customization of the music in each performance. Music was played on different instruments, embellished and ornamented by each performer, and crafted uniquely with each performance. So this solo flute arrangement by Salvatore Sciarrino of Johann Sebastian Bach’s famous organ Toccata and Fugue in d minor

Although composer William Byrd lived from 1540-1623, hearing and seeing it performed in this format seems absolutely perfect because it highlights the individual parts each performer contributes to the whole. This Beautiful Music — YE SACRED MUSES — is an elegy Byrd wrote on the death of his friend and mentor, Thomas Tallis. This performance

Harpsichordist Byron Schenkman is terrific, and has some pretty terrific friends, too! Today’s Beautiful Music offering is a concert performance of music by Johann Sebastian Bach, Elizabeth Claude Jacquet de la Guerre, Jean-Marie Leclair and others. It’s from the series BYRON SCHENKMAN & FRIENDS, and in addition to the harpsichordist, features Rachell Ellen Wong, (violin)

Are you familiar with Claudia Francesca Rusca? She was a nun who lived from 1593-1676, and she sang and played organ, as well as composing sacred music during her time in the convent. This is Beautiful Music by Claudio Rusca performed by Cappella Artemisia, an Italian all-female vocal group specializing in the music of the

“Why do the nations so furiously rage together?” is a magnificent aria from George Frideric Handel’s oratorio MESSIAH. Bass baritone Jonathan Woody sang it in the 2019 Handel Aria Competition, providing today’s selection of Beautiful Music. And mark your calendar for April 18 and 20, when Boston’s Handel & Haydn Society with give the world

This is a recent house performance of a Sonata by Elisabeth Claude Jacquet de la Guerre. During the Fall, traverso player Ellen Sauer, baroque violin player Carmen Johnson-Pájaro, viola da gamba player Charlie Reed, and harpsichordist Kevin C Devine gave a series of weekly concerts of music by women composers of the Baroque to celebrate

I’m pleased to share with you the exciting artistry of Mahan Esfahani. The harpsichord plays Beautiful Music by Jean-Philippe Rameau, giving a spirited performance of his Suite in G major from a concert performance on March 14, 2018 at Juan March Foundation in Madrid. I have also included a link to the musician’s website so