Suzanne Bona

Gonzalo X. Ruiz is an outstanding oboe player. In today’s Beautiful Music performance he is conducting Musica Angelica with soprano Molly Netter in a program called SHAKESPEARE’S DREAM: MUSIC INSPIRED BY THREE GREAT PLAYS. They are playing music from “The Tempest” by Matthew Locke, “The Fairy Queen” by Henry Purcell, and Radiohead’s “Exit Music.”

Baroque violin player August McKay Lodge provides today’s Beautiful Music. The marvelous musician gives a varied concert of music by Johann Sebastian Bach, Georg Philipp Telemann, Niccolo Paganini, and some fiddle tunes! The performance was recorded in her apartment in Paris.

Although Yo-Yo Ma forged his career as a classical musician, he has enthusiastically pursued collaborations with musicians in other genres. Today’s Beautiful Music features the acclaimed cellist performing at Acadia National Park, from an unannounced June 2021 performance. His collaborator is Chris Newell, senior partner to the Wabanaki Nations and a member of the Mystic

Ruth Slenczynska is an American pianist born in 1925. She has been playing the instrument since age 3 when her father — a violinist — started her and pushed her to excel. A child prodigy, Ruth Slenczynska was just 6 when she gave her debut performance in Berlin, and 7 for her Paris debut.. Her

Oboist Debra Nagy, founder and artistic director of the early music group Les Délices, was recently given Early Music America’s Laurette Goldberg Award for achievement in early music outreach. Motivated by her desire to address recent social unrest and the restrictions of the COVID-19 Pandemic, Debra Nagy initiated numerous projects, including creating a webseries variety

It’s lovely to hear a fresh performance of familiar compositions, and today’s Beautiful Music features Phoebe Carrai playing Johann Sebastian Bach’s Third Suite for Unaccompanied Cello. She performs on baroque cello, and teaches Historical Performance at The Juilliard School, where she has been on the faculty since 2009. Phoebe Carrai is from Boston, and has

Camilla de Rossi was a Roman woman who composed music in the early 18th century. We know Rossi was commissioned by Austria’s Emperor Joseph I to compose four oratorios, one of the few women to compose oratorios in Vienna at that time. Today’s Beautiful Music is a 2011 concert performance of Camilla de Rossi’s 1709