Today’s Beautiful Music is by Louis-Gabriel Guillemain (1705-1770). The Giga Presto movement from Guillemain’s Sonata for 2 violins in A minor, Op. 5 is played by violinist Sallynee Amawat and Marjolaine Lambert from a performance they gave in 2014 at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. You can also listen to my recent conversation with Sallynee […]
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Melanie Punter has had a busy career as a double bass player for decades. The versatile and talented musician is in demand in modern symphony orchestras, as well as for her work playing baroque and early music with period instrument groups. She spoke with Suzanne about her experiences coming up through the prestigious High School
Davóne Tines is a marvelous bass-baritone singer who imparts his performances with a great sense of drama and passion. Listen to him sing this Beautiful Music by Henry Purcell — THE COLD SONG from the semi-opera KING ARTHUR — with pianist Adam Nielsen. Davóne Tines was recently named Creative Partner with the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra.
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Today’s Beautiful Music is from 18th century China. It’s an air played by Yuen Shi-chun on a silk stringed QinQin, a Chinese plucked zither. You can also read more about Yuen Shi-chun, who is a member of the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra. A Chinese air: eighteenth century Chinese music performance in London
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BUSKAID is South Africa’s renowned Soweto String Ensemble. You can read more about them on the link below. And, today’s Beautiful Music is their captivating performance of music by Jean-Philippe Rameau. Buskaid: Overture from Pigmalion and dances from Zaïs – Jean Philippe Rameau – YouTube BUSKAID – Helping Young Black Musicians in South African Townships
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Lucia Quinciani was an Italian composer born in the late 16th century. She is credited as the “earliest known published female composer of monody” … see a link to her biography below. [monody is a type of ode for solo voice] Today’s Beautiful Music is the one known composition by Lucia Quinciani, sung by soprano
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And now for something completely different … today’s Beautiful Music is Johann Sebastian Bach’s Goldberg Variations arranged for string trio. The performers are Grace Park (violin), Ben Ullery (viola), and Robert Demaine (cello) and they are playing an arrangement by Dmitri Sitkovetsky. Next Up: Bach’s Goldberg Variations – YouTube
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Today’s Beautiful Music is a warm breeze from the 16th century … wind music from Renaissance Italy. The marvelous group, Piffaro, using an assortment of quirky instruments — ancestors to some of the more familiar and more recent instruments we hear. Wind Music from Renaissance Italy – YouTube
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Dominoes … Fencing … a composer from a family of chess masters … and some musical games. Those are some of the fun and merriment you’ll enjoy, courtesy of baroque era musicians such as Francois Couperin, Johann Schmelzer and Andre Danican Philidor on Sunday Baroque this weekend.
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Princess Anna Amalia of Prussia was the younger sister of King Frederick the Great. They both loved music, played instruments, and composed. This is Princess Anna Amalia’s best known composition — her Flute Sonata in F — in a sweet and tender performance by members of Infusion Baroque. It’s Beautiful Music from a live concert
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