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What fun to watch the interplay of human talent and technology. Violinist Emi Tanabe uses a record and playback setup to accompany herself playing today’s Beautiful Music: Johann Sebastian Bach’s chorale JESU, JOY OF MAN’S DESIRING. You can use the link below to her YouTube Channel to hear more of her artistry.

The String Queens are an exciting trio of talented and versatile musicians. The Washington, DC-based ensemble has a genre-spanning repertory, “… from the Baroque era to the Jazz Age to today’s Billboard Hot 100 Chart.” Today’s Beautiful Music shows off The String Queens playing SPAIN by Chick Corea. You can also read more about the

Dr. Lori Celeste Hicks is a singer, composer and teacher. The soprano is featured in today’s Beautiful Music offering — a gripping 2021 performance of I, TOO, SING AMERICA from the Dream Variations by American composer, pianist, arranger, and teacher Margaret Bonds. You can also use the links below to learn more about Margaret Bonds

Happy New Year! Johann Sebastian Bach welcomed the New Year in Leipzig in 1729 with his Cantata BWV 171 – Gott, wie dein Name, so ist auch dein Ruhm (God, as Your name is, so is also Your praise). Today’s Beautiful Music is a 2016 live performance of Bach’s Cantata BWV 171 by Ensemble Academia

On this final day of the year — New Year’s Eve — today’s Beautiful Music is a gorgeous performance of AULD LANG SYNE by The Choral Scholars of University College Dublin. The whole Sunday Baroque team wishes you a safe and happy New Year’s Celebration, and a healthy year ahead!

RIU RIU CHIU is a centuries-old Spanish villancico, which was a poetic musical form in the 15th through 18th centuries. This performance of Beautiful Music features Ensemble Obsidienne, led by Emmanuel Bonnardot. You can also use the link below to read the lyrics in both Spanish and English. https://lyricstranslate.com/en/r%C3%ADu-r%C3%ADu-ch%C3%ADu-riu-riu-chiu-riu-riu-chiu.html

You are in for a treat! Today’s Beautiful Music features Welsh singer Aled Jones with 12 year old Malakai M Bayoh, who began singing as a chorister at St George’s Cathedral Southwark, in London. They teamed up to sing a duet of O HOLY NIGHT.

What fun! Just seeing these magnificent instruments is exciting — just wait until you hear them play! Today’s Beautiful Music is Ars Lrica Houston’s buoyant performance of the 1st Brandenburg Concerto by Johann Sebastian Bach, complete with two instruments called Corni di Caccia. (Hunting Horns)

Today’s Beautiful Music is a familiar Christmas song, including its origins as a Ukrainian folk melody. It’s the Carol of the Bells — the Original Ukrainian Version with English and Ukrainian Lyrics. Wishing you warm, peaceful greetings of the season!

Today’s Beautiful Music is a gorgeous performance of LAS ESTRELLAS DE LOS CIELOS (the stars of the skies), a song from Hesperion XXI’s recording Díaspora Sefardí (Sephardic Diaspora). You can also use the link below to learn more about the Jewish people of Spain who were forced to convert to Catholicism or face expulsion from