Johann Sebastian Bach’s Six Brandenburg Concertos are some of the greatest hits of baroque music, and there are many MANY recordings of them. Today’s Beautiful Music offering is a particularly lovely performance of Bach’s 4th Brandenburg Concerto. It has unique delicacy and clarity. This performance is given by flutists Demarre McGill and Sooyun Kim, violist […]
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Keith Jarrett was only 3 years old when his parents started him on piano lessons. Pretty soon he was also composing music and by the tender age of 7 he was already performing publicly. The versatile musician has mastered Beautiful Music of many different genres, including Baroque music. Did you know he even played harpsichord?
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Impeccable musical skills, imaginative programming, and a great sense of humor … it’s Beautiful Music courtesy of The King’s Singers. This is Henry Purcell’s aria MUSIC FOR A WHILE.
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The blend of bassoon and organ is a lovely and elegant combination, and this performance of Georg Philipp Telemann’s Sonata in f minor is quite Beautiful Music. Bassoonist Jaquain Sloan and organist Dr. Christoph Bull made this recording at First Congregational Church of Los Angeles.
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I’m so happy to share the exceptional artistry of Charlotte Barbour-Condini. She is a young award-winning recorder virtuoso, and she demonstrates the technical and dramatic capabilities of the instrument. These exciting excerpts of Beautiful Music are from her performances in the BBC Young Musician of the Year competition in 2012.
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Have you ever heard of Lucrezia Orsina Vizzana? She was an Italian singer, organist, and composer in the early 17th century. She went to a convent in Bologna in 1598, where she took music lessons from her aunt, who was the convent organist. Eventually she became a nun AND a composer. You’ll hear some of Donna Lucrezia Vizzana’s compositions on Sunday Baroque this weekend.
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A fine musical instrument is a vital tool for a professional musician. String players often use instruments that are centuries-old, with characteristics particular to the luthier who crafted them. Ilya Finkelshteyn has had the great fortune to play many extraordinary cellos, including the 17th century Montagnana instrument he uses as principal cellist of the Cincinnati
Yesterday’s Beautiful Music featured Hal Robinson and Joseph Conyers, the Principal and Assistant Principal Bass Players in the Philadelphia Orchestra, playing a double cello concerto by Antonio Vivaldi. As a follow up, here are the two elite musicians performing for school children in Philadelphia. Not only is it fun to hear their terrific playing, it’s
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Who can blame a couple of terrific double bass players for wanting to play a meaty, challenging concerto and why should they be limited to only music written specifically for their instrument? This Beautiful Music was originally a Concerto by Antonio Vivaldi for 2 cellos, but it’s played by Hal Robinson and Joseph Conyers, the
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Are you familiar with the composer Leonardo Vinci? Not Leonardo da Vinci, the artist and polymath who lived from 1452-1519, but the Neapolitan composer who lived from 1690 – 1730. Leonardo Vinci was famous for his operas, and today’s Beautiful Music is one of them: Li Zite ‘Ngalera (The Lovers On The Galley) You will
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