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Today’s Beautiful Music is as astounding performance by soprano singer Jeanine DeBique with Concerto Koln. They’re performing arias by George Frideric Handel, Georg Philipp Telemann, and other baroque era composers. Enjoy the concert!

Ignacio Parreiras Neves was a Brazilian musician of the baroque era who lived from approximately 1730-1794. He was a singer, conductor and composer who primarily made his living as a church musician. Today’s Beautiful Music is Ignacio Parreiras Neves’ SALVE REGINA. Use the additional link below to learn more about the composer https://musicabrasilis.com/composers/ignacio-parreira-neves

LGT Soloists are an ensemble of young, exceptionally talented musicians ranging in age from their mid-teens to mid-twenties. The group provides these aspiring professional performers an opportunity to cultivate their craft with their peers, learn repertory, and perform internationally for discerning music lovers. Today’s Beautiful Music features LGT Young Soloists from their March 17, 2023

Norfolk Chamber Music Festival is the summer home of Yale’s Summer School of Music. The performances feature faculty and students playing a wide variety of music. Today’s Beautiful Music is the July 19, 2024 Emerging Artist performance from Norfolk Chamber Music Festival featuring compositions by Franz Joseph Haydn, Clint Needham, Maurice Ravel, Paul Hindemith, and

On this date in 1501, Michelangelo received the commission for his iconic sculpture of David. 1501 was also the year that Venetian printer Ottaviano Petrucci published his Harmonice Musices Odhecaton. It was the first book of polyphonic music printed using the new technology of movable type. Today’s Beautiful Music features some of those 96 pieces

Today is National Relaxation Day — a time to pause from the hectic pace and demands of daily life. Today’s Beautiful Music is a recording called A DREAM featuring harpist Ann Hobson Pilot. The former Boston Symphony Principal Harpist also has help from flutist Leone Buyse. Ann Hobson Pilot’s artistry is perfect to relax, reflect,

Today’s Beautiful Music is a postcard from the 2017 Bengal Classical Music Festival, which is supported by the Bengal Foundation to promote, nurture, and uphold the musical traditions of Bengal. Flutist Pandit Ronu Majumdar, sarod player Pandit Debojyoti Bose and tabla virtuosos Pandit Yogesh Samsi and Pandit Abhijit Banerjee are the performers. Below are links

Paul Creston (1906-1985) was a prolific self-taught composer of some 120 works. He started piano lessons (and composing music for fun) at age 8, and taught himself to play his brother’s violin. He was also interested in literature and poetry as a boy, and some of his musical compositions were wrote inspired by Walt Whitman.

The Early Music Festival Utrecht was founded in 1982, and features a variety of concerts, as well as various workshops and masterclasses, and brings in young talent from all over the world. The goal of the festival is to keep the adventure of early music alive. Today’s Beautiful Music is the Opening Concert from the

The Edinburgh International Festival is going on right now (August 2-24) and this year’s festival celebrates “RITUALS THAT UNITE US.” Violinist Nicola Benedetti is Festival Director. There’s a link to the Festival website below. Today’s Beautiful Music is Nicola Benedetti performing at St Giles Cathedral in Edinburgh in 2023. https://www.eif.co.uk