Merry Christmas! My gift of Beautiful Music today is something sweet and fun — it’s a collection of favorite holiday music performed in baroque-style arrangements. Some of the music is truly from the baroque era or before, while other selections are clever arrangements of beloved modern holiday tunes. These two volumes feature Peter Breiner leading […]
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To make this Christmas Eve special, we are traveling to Venice for a program of music by Giovanni Gabrieli and others, performed by the Gabrieli Consort & Players. They crafted this program as, “… an impression of the First Mass of Christmas in St Mark’s as it might have been celebrated in Venice around the
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A COLONIAL CHRISTMAS is Early Music New York’s holiday collection of Beautiful Music for the Christmas season. It includes familiar holiday melodies such as Lo How a Rose E’re Blooming, the Coventry Carol and Greensleeves, along with lovely but less well known music. I hope you enjoy the unique holiday playlist of ancient music. Portuguese
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Today the Agricola Consort offers Beautiful Music for Advent by Georg Philipp Telemann. His cantata ‘Machet die Tore weit’ was composed for Advent in 1719 G.P. Telemann – Machet die Tore Weit (TWV 1:1074) – Agricola Consort – YouTube
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What a pleasure to share Beautiful Music for advent by Johann Sebastian Bach, performed by Pacific Musicworks in Seattle. This concert performance from December 2017 features two of Bach’s Advent Cantas: NUN KOMM, DER HEIDEN HEILAND BWV 62 from Leipzig in 1724 and BEIREITET DIE WEGE, BEIREITET DIE WAHN BWV 132 for the 4th Sunday
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Today I’m offering Beautiful Music for the Christmas and Advent season from ancient times. This collection of Medieval music is performed by The Primavera Singers Of The New York Pro Music Antiqua. Medieval Christmas Carols & Advent Choral – YouTube
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This Beautiful Music has such joyful spirit and optimism — no, it’s not “baroque” in the strict definition. But like baroque music, it’s elaborately embellished and ornamented. The Drakensberg Boys Choir in South Africa performs, and I especially love seeing their energy and the smiles on their young faces. Drakensberg Boys Choir – An African
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Brought up in Israel, the eldest child of two University Professors, David Greilsammer is a curious man. He is curious about music, of course. But he is also curious about the world in general: the environment, social issues, and other important issues of our time. He spoke with Suzanne and shared a glimpse into his
As Hanukkah ends, this is Beautiful Music by Salamone Rossi. The violinist and composer was a trailblazer in composing liturgical music in Hebrew. This is Rossi’s setting of Psalm 118, a psalm of praise that is frequently used, including during Hanukkah. https://www.jewish-music.huji.ac.il/content/salamone-rossi
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December 21st is the winter solstice this year. It marks the beginning of winter in the northern hemisphere – the shortest day, and longest night of the year. Many composers explored the characteristics of seasons in their music, and you’ll hear some of their impressions on Sunday Baroque this weekend.
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