Suzanne Bona

“El Parnaso Hyspano is an international chamber group of singers and instrumentalists dedicated to the performance of early Hispanic music, ranging from the medieval to the baroque and early classical.” Today’s Beautiful Music features El Parnaso Hyspano performing music by Juan de Araujo, a Spanish-born 17th century musician who became maestro di cappella of Lima […]

Today’s Beautiful Music is an exciting live concert by Enrike Solinís and Euskal Barrokensemble. It’s a captivating, virtuosic, and toe-tapping collaboration. Just look at the beautiful and interesting musical instruments, and the looks on their faces!

Harpist Amy Turk provides impressive, Beautiful Music today. She is an instrumentalist, composer, and arranger, and this is her performance of her own arrangement of Johann Sebastian Bach’s Toccata & Fugue in d minor BWV565. You can also read more about the talented harpist using the link below to her website. https://www.amyturkharp.com/about

Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité  Today is Bastille Day, France’s National Day. So today’s Beautiful Music is a serene performance by guitarist Enno Voorhorst of François Couperin’s Les Barricades Mystérieuses in front of Chateau de Versailles.

What a pleasure to hear (and watch) two outstanding instrumentalists collaborating on a beloved and tantalizing piece like the PASSACAGLIA by Johann Halvorsen based on music by George Frideric Handel. Violinist Rachel Wong and violist Andrew Gonzalez took their performance out of the concert hall and around he town of Staunton, Virginia. This Beautiful Music

What do you do when your mother is a talented, internationally acclaimed violinist? When you’re Sylvia Pine and your mom is Rachel Barton Pine, you start making music with her — playing violin as well as some lesser known instruments, and composing music. I love checking in with the delightful mother-daughter musicians periodically. Today Rachel

You may be familiar with the name Giacomo Puccini, the Italian composer of operas such as La Bohème, Madama Butterfly, Tosca, and Turandot. Giacomo lived from 1858–1924. But Puccini was from a long line of accomplished musicians that began with his great-great-grandfather Jacopo in the 18th century. Jacopo Puccini was born in Lucca, Italy, studied

I just discovered the phenomenal soprano Betty Garcés, and WOW! I can’t wait for you to hear her Beautiful Music performance of MELODIA SENTIMENTAL by Heitor Villa-Lobos. This is from a concert with the Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra, dconducted by Alfonso Scarano, at the Colombian Embassy in Bangkok, Thailand. Ms. Garcés has such an ease and

“El Sistema is a publicly financed, voluntary sector, music-education program, founded in Venezuela in 1975 by Venezuelan educator, musician, and activist José Antonio Abreu.” Violinist Ray Chen visited Venezuela to work with kids in the El Sistema program, and today’s Beautiful Music is an engaging and delightful performance of the opening of Johann Sebastian Bach’s

Yesterday I posted a performance by the recent winner of the Van Cliburn Piano Competition. Today’s Beautiful Music features the Bronze medal winner — 28 year old Ukrainian pianist Dmytro Choni. This is the semifinal concert performance of the Van Cliburn Competition in which he is performs the Piano Concerto No. 20 in D Minor,