Suzanne Bona

Throughout this week Beautiful Music will focus on a terrific series called SalonEra, a live-streamed early music-focused variety show designed as a salon experience for the 21st century. SalonEra founder Debra Nagy says “I hope that SalonEra is something of a gateway drug to consuming more early music! SalonEra exposes audiences to fascinating projects and […]

Happy Mother’s Day! Today’s Beautiful Music features a mother & daughter duo playing MOTHER IS A PRICELESS JEWEL, a 2001 composition by Godwin Sadoh. The Nigeria-born composer is an African ethnomusicologist, intercultural musicologist, composer, church musician, pianist, organist, choral conductor, and a prolific publishing scholar. He earned his degrees at Louisiana State University, The University

Keri-Lynn Wilson is a Canadian conductor of Ukrainian heritage. She began her musical studies playing flute, piano, and violin, and eventually earned her degrees from The Juilliard School with Masters degrees in both in flute and conducting. In addition to conducting gigs with orchestras and opera companies across the globe, she also was involved in

Spanish soprano Nuria Rial has a broad range of musical interests and talents, ranging from baroque music and historical performance practices, to contemporary works. You can read more about the talented singer using the link below. Today’s Beautiful Music features Nuria Rial singing George Frideric Handel’s aria Flammende Rose, Zierde der Erden HWV 210.

In 2000, viola da gamba player Jennifer Eriksson started The Marais Project. She was inspired by the great French baroque viola da gamba player and composer Marin Marais, and set a personal goal for herself to perform the complete viola da gamba works of Marais. She and her guest collaborators with The Marais Project don’t limit

Today’s Beautiful Music is a lovely, peaceful moment for you to savor. O LOVELY PEACE is a duet from George Frideric Handel’s oratorio JUDAS MACCABAEUS. This performance features the artistry of soprano Andrea Csereklyei and mezzo-soprano Lúcia Megyesi Schwartz from a 2013 recording. You can also read more about these two marvelous Hungarian musicians using

You’re invited to pause for a moment of serene beauty … today’s Beautiful Music is a live performance of the gorgeous Piano Concerto #1 by Frederic Chopin. He wrote it in 1830 at the age of 20. German pianist Olga Scheps gave this concert in 2014 at Tonhalle Düsseldorf with the Chamber Orchestra of Polish

Esteban Salas y Castro was a Cuban composer, born in Havana 1725 near the end of the baroque era, he died in Santiago de Cuba in 1803. Today’s Beautiful Music is a live concert performance of two villancicos by Esteban Salas y Castro — performed by soprano Caroline Arnaud, alto Mélodie Ruvio, and alto Dagmar

On this date in 1663, London’s Theatre Royal — better known as the Drury Lane Theatre — opened, making it the oldest English theatre still in use. Today’s Beautiful Music is Henry Purcell’s music for THE MARRIED BEAU that was performed there. TENET Vocal Artists performs music from THE MARRIED BEAU, OR THE CURIOUS IMPERTINENT.

Today is the coronation of England’s King Charles, and today’s Beautiful Music is an anthem by George Frideric Handel that has been used at every coronation since he composed it in 1727 for King George II. Handel’s ZADOK THE PRIEST is performed by the Choir of Westminster Abbey led by Martin Neary.