Happy Father’s Day! In honor of the occasion, today’s Beautiful Music features a prolific musical dad — Johann Sebastian Bach (father of 20!) — and some of his talented offspring. Pianist (and father) Kyle P. Walker kicks it off with a concert program that includes music by JS (Partita #1 in Bb, and Prelude in […]
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Today’s Beautiful Music is a recent live concert from April 25, 2021 featuring the outstanding organist Alcee Chriss III. It took place at First Congregational Church † United Church of Christ in Columbus, OH. The program is virtuosic and varied between musical eras, beginning with music by Johann Sebastian Bach. You can also read more
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Today’s Beautiful Music features Six Harpsichord Sonatas by Anna Bon, composed in 1757. The Italian composer and harpsichordist was around 20 years old (max) when she wrote these charming little solo pieces. If you’d like to know more about this unfairly neglected 18th century musician, you can read more about her using the link below.
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Every year on the third Sunday in June, we celebrate Father’s Day. In the baroque era, music was often a family business, passed along from fathers to their children. Sunday Baroque will celebrate some of those musical fathers and their talented offspring, including a father and daughter performance of a sonata by Johann Sebastian Bach, and a Sonata by his son Carl Philip Emanuel on Sunday Baroque this weekend.
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Today’s Beautiful Music is a chance for you to have a two and half minute pause of pure loveliness. Two members of the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra — flutist Yuki Koyama and harpist Sivan Magen — give a serene performance of the second movement of a Flute Sonata in g minor long attributed to Johann
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Countertenor John Holiday is such an extraordinary and versatile talent! He easily moves between the worlds of classical and popular music. You may have caught his performances on The Voice, where he knocked the socks off the judges. Today’s Beautiful Music features John Holiday with Boston Baroque singing the aria “L’empio, sleale, indegno” from
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Wow! Wait till you see and hear how talented these two young oboists are! They are playing the first movement of Tomaso Albinoni’s Concerto for 2 oboes Op. 9 #3 in F major from a 2016 performance. Tomaso Albinoni Concerto oboe – YouTube
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Musician, teacher and administrator Patricia Ann Neely has been Chair of Early Music America’s IDEA Task Force, and she continues her ongoing conversation with Suzanne about making the world of early music more welcoming and inclusive for all. In this installment, Ms. Neely talks about the importance of ongoing conversations about how to move forward
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Confession: I’m a sucker for clever covers like the ones created by Bardcore. These are familiar pop tunes performed with ancient instruments, and they always put a smile on my face. This one — the Queen tune “We Will Rock You” — readily lends itself to this reworking, and (I think) sounds convincingly medieval.
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I love seeing musicians finding ways to play together, even when they can’t be in the same room. Today’s Beautiful Music is provided by two marvelous instrumentalists — viola da gamba player Patricia Ann Neely and violinist Dongmyung Ahn — using technology to play a Sonata by Johann Rosenmuller. This is part of the Open
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