Loretta O’Sullivan performs on Baroque, Classical, and Modern cello as a soloist and chamber musician, and in numerous ensembles. She also enjoys improvising, particularly with poetry. Today’s Beautiful Music is one of those collaborations. Bird Songs – poems by Francine Ringold – reading and cello improvisation by Loretta O’Sullivan – YouTube Loretta O’Sullivan – Cellist […]

Jasmine Choi is former principal flute of the Vienna Symphony under Fabio Luisi and associate principal of the Cincinnati Symphony under Paavo Jarvi. She now performs as a soloist, and today’s Beautiful Music is her gorgeous performance of Georg Philipp Telemann’s Fantasy #10 for unaccompanied flute. [Flute Solo] Telemann Fantasy No.10 in F-sharp Minor –

I can’t wait for you to experience this captivating performance of Beautiful Music by pipa player Gao Hong and oud player Issam Rafea! You can also read more about the two instruments, which are both cousins in the lute family. Musical Meetings on the Silk Road – YouTube The Oud (maqamworld.com) Chinese Pipa | Pipa

RITORNA, O CARO is an aria from George Frideric Handel’s opera  RODELINDA, REGINA DE’ LONGOBARDI. Today’s Beautiful Music is a ravishing performance of the aria by soprano Jeanine De Bique with the Houston Grand Opera Orchestra, conducted by Patrick Summers. There’s also a link to the Trinidadian soprano’s website so you can learn more about

I love the purity and clarity of Johann Sebastian Bach’s solo violin music, and I love having the opportunity to watch (as well as hear) a gifted musician play them! Michigan native Jordan Curry gave this performance of the first movement of Bach’s Sonata #1 in g BWV in May, 2018. You can also read

Rosa Giacinta Badalla was a Milanese composer who lived from c.1660-c.1710. She was also a Benedictine nun, and we have only a small number of her lovely  compositions — a collection of motets and a pair of cantatas. This is Beautiful Music by Rosa Giacinta Badalla — her solo motet NON PLANGETE — performed by

On August 1, 1714 England’s Queen Anne died. For her funeral service, some of William Croft’s music was performed. (Croft’s music was also played at the April 2021 funeral of Prince Philip) Today’s Beautiful Music features The Madrigal Singers led Itay Berckovitch, with organist Marisa Meckier, performing Croft’s BURIAL SENTENCES. William Croft (1678-1727) – Burial

Today’s Beautiful Music offering is by a Milanese woman who lived from 1593 until 1676, Claudia Francesca Rusca. She was a singer and organist, and was a nun at the Umiliate monastery of St. Caterina in Brera. You can read her biography below. Enjoy this lovely live performance from March 2020 featuring soprano Maria Yost,

Today’s Beautiful Music is the Sinfonia from the opera PALLADE E MARTE, composed in 1713 by Maria Margherita Grimani. She was an Italian composer who worked in Vienna, was the first woman to have her opera performed at the Vienna court theater. This performance from the 1980s is given by New England Women’s Symphony, conducted