Suzanne Bona

Violinist and conductor Jeanne Lamon (August 14, 1949 – June 20, 2021) led Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra for 33 years. The American-born musician joined the group and, soon after, became its director. Today’s Beautiful Music features Jeanne Lamon, cellist Christina Mahler (her partner of 43 years), and harpsichordist Christina Hutton performing music by Johann Sebastian Bach.

It’s the Summer Solstice today! My Beautiful Music offering is Antonio Vivaldi’s programmatic SUMMER Violin Concerto from the Four Seasons. Did you know that Vivaldi included a sonnet with each of the Concertos? As you listen to violinist Cynthia Miller Freivogel and Voices of Music perform the Concerto, you can see the text on the

It’s June 19th … Juneteenth. Despite Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, it took until June 19, 1865 for the last enslaved Americans in Galveston, Texas to learn that they had been freed. There’s a link below with more about Juneteenth. Today’s Beautiful Music is the luminous artistry of Leontyne Price with Rust

Today’s Beautiful Music features the Latin-Baroque fusion ensemble Rumbarroco, led by viola da gamba player and music scholar Laury Gutierrez. I’ve Found a New Baby: Baroque Meets Afro-Latin Jazz is an upbeat and toe-tapping performance. The group’s mission is to, ” … show the European influence on Afro-American and indigenous music in Latin America, as

Harpsichordist Andrew Appel took notice of the sound of the harpsichord when he heard recordings of Johann Sebastian Bach’s Violin Sonatas with Wanda Landowska. (Use the link below to read the interview he gave about how and when he fell for the instrument.) Today’s Beautiful Music is an at-home solo harpsichord performance by Andrew Appel

Today’s Beautiful Music is a performance by the ensemble Quicksilver of a Sonata by Heinrich Biber. This is such a delightful performance, but I’d like to call your attention specifically to two of the instruments. First, right in the middle of the group is a man seated, holding an enormous instrument with a super-long neck.

Webb Wiggins is a keyboard virtuoso who has performed with a long list of top ensembles including Folger Consort, Dryden Ensemble, Kings Noyse, Chatham Baroque, Hesperus, Oberlin Baroque Ensemble, Catacoustic Consort, Baltimore Consort, Apollo’s Fire, Smithsonian Chamber Players, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, and National Symphony. Today’s Beautiful Music features Webb Wiggins playing THE CARMAN’S WHISTLE, William

June 14 is our annual celebration of Flag Day in the United States. It was on this date in 1777 that our flag was adopted by resolution of the Second Continental Congress. Use the link below to learn more about the holiday. Today’s Beautiful Music features The Star-Spangled Banner, sung a cappella by the delightful, pure-toned

Old meets New today! My Beautiful Music offering features a new composition by a contemporary composer that features an instrument more closely associated with the baroque era. It’s Caroline Shaw’s Concerto for Harpsichord from a March 2024 Sound Salon performance. The musicians are violinists Rachell Ellen Wong and Carmen Lavada Johnson-Pájaro, violist Andrew Gonzalez, cellist

Composer Jake Heggie was commissioned to write a chamber composition to celebrate flutist Carol Wincenc’s Golden Anniversary year as a performer. Today’s Beautiful Music is the World Premiere performance of that work, called FULL CIRCLE FIFTY. The February 2020 performance features the dedicatee, Carol Wincenc, composer Jake Heggie as pianist, and cellist Brook Speltz. There