Padre Antonio Soler was an 18th century Spanish composer and priest  best known for his keyboard solos. The outstanding harpsichordist Dr. Joyce Chen is featured playing today’s Beautiful Music offering — the FANDANGO by Padre Antonio Soler, from a concert performance at Gore Recital Hall at The University of Delaware in Newark, DE. Padre Antonio […]

Today’s Beautiful Music is by George Frideric Handel — his German Aria Süßer Blumen Ambraflocken. The performance features Latvian soprano Aija Veismane, Chilean flutist Felipe Egaña, German cellist Barbara Hartrumpf, and Spanish harpsichordist Sara Huidobro Johnson. G F Händel German Aria Süßer Blumen Ambraflocken HWV204 – YouTube

I will never forget the first time I attended a concert by Canadian pianist and composer Stewart Goodyear. His elegant artistry made it memorable, for sure — but it was also his gracious and lovely interaction with the audience that stays in my mind. He was the soloist with an orchestra performing one of Johann

This is Beautiful Music from 18th century Spain, performed by a group of talented musicians working to introduce this music to a wider audience. La Guirlande’s recording is called SPANISH TRAVELING VIRTUOSI. You can hear (and watch) them play, AND you can hear them talk about the project! Spanish Travelling Virtuosi: A project for the

Today’s offering is devilishly Beautiful Music! Rachell Ellen Wong plays a solo arrangement of Giuseppe Tartini’s DEVIL’S TRILL Sonata on baroque violin. This 2018 live concert recording was made in Auer Hall at Indiana University. You can also read more about the terrific up-and-coming musician, who was 2020 winner of the Avery Fisher Career Grant

This is Beautiful Music to put a smile on your face! Andrew Gonzalez is playing violoncello da spalla — a “shoulder cello” — and his facial expressions and body language say it all. The ease and joy exude from his lovely performance of Johann Sebastian Bach’s GIGUE from the 6th Suite for Unaccompanied Cello. You

Soprano Michele Kennedy’s beautiful artistry provides today’s Beautiful Music! The music is Weichet nur, betrübte Schatten, Cantata BWV 202 by Johann Sebastian Bach. This is from a 2018 performance at Christ and Saint Stephens Church in New York City, also featuring oboist Ellen Marie Hindson, theorbo player Daniel Swenberg, and organist Raymond Nagem. And in

Maria Antonia Walpurgis lived from 1724 to 1780. The electress of Saxony and daughter of the elector of Bavaria was a trained musician, and an avid singer and composer with a particular interest in opera. “Chi non mai partì dal lido” is an aria from Talestri, regina delle amazzoni, a 1760 opera by Maria Antonio