Josh Lee is an accomplished viola da gamba player who has performed with a variety of top musical ensembles, including Musica Pacifica, Les Délices, Four Nations Ensemble, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Portland Baroque Orchestra, Seattle Symphony, TENET, Pacific Music Works, American Bach Soloists, Orchester Wiener Akademie, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, and the Boston Early Music Festival. The […]

Harpist/organist/harpsichordist Parker Ramsay demonstrates extreme multi-tasking in today’s Beautiful Music, playing a composition called WHEN I AM AMONG THE TREES, written for him by Lucy McKnight. This is no ordinary harp Parker Ramsay is playing, though. In this November 2022 performance in Taplin Auditorium at Princeton University, Parker is using McKnight’s custom-built harp-organ pipe-percussion instrument.

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.