CLAUDE DEBUSSY & JEAN-PHILIPPE RAMEAU were two French musicians from different eras. There’s a new solo piano recording that is framed as a conversation across the centuries between the two masterful French composers. You’ll have a chance to audition it on Sunday Baroque this weekend.
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Where did September go? Here is Beautiful Music tailor made for the first day of October: it’s English viol player Christopher Simpson’s OCTOBER Suite from his collection, The Monthes.
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My toes are tapping as I enthusiastically share this Beautiful Music with you! It’s from a production called TOO HOT TO HANDEL: THE GOSPEL MESSIAH. It’s a spirited gospel adaptation of George Frideric Handel’s oratorio MESSIAH. Handel was such a showman, I think he’d love this reimagining by esteemed conductor Marin Alsop. Below you will
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Today’s Beautiful Music is the aria WHEN I AM LAID IN EARTH. It’s from English musician Henry Purcell’s opera DIDO AND AENEAS. This hauntingly lovely performance is by soprano Pumeza Matshikiza with Aarhus Symfoniorkester. (grab a tissue!)
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My offering of Beautiful Music to you today is FANTASTIC. The “Fantastic Style” (stylus fantasticus) was a free form musical style popularized in 17th century Italy. Violinist Ingrid Matthews and harpsichordist Byron Schenkman explored this improvisatory form on their recording,”in Stil Moderno,” including this Sonata Duodecima by Isabella Leonarda. [Technical note: you will have to
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As a flute player, I am always giddy with excitement to discover flute music I didn’t know about! Today I’m sharing Beautiful Music by Joseph Bolougne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges. He was born in 1745 — just five years before the “official” end of the baroque era — and only lived until 1799. Chevalier de Saint-Georges
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I love so much about this … Jeanine De Bique uses her phenomenal voice and gorgeous sense of phrasing and line to sing a beloved aria by George Frideric Handel, Cleopatra’s aria V’adoro pupille from Handel’s “Giulio Cesare.” She also sings it a capella and with such ease, purity and elegance. Enjoy this Beautiful Music
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Louis Saladin was a 17th century Provençal musician who composed music for the local Jewish community. Today’s Beautiful Music is Louis Saladin’s CANTICUM HEBRAICUM — composed in the 1670s, but only rediscovered in the 1960s by 20th century musicologist Israel Adler.
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Santiago de Murcia was a Spanish guitarist and composer – his music was so popular that some of his manuscripts were found in “New Spain” otherwise known as Mexico, in the 18th century. You’ll hear spirited guitar music by Santiago de Murcia, and other composers connected to Spain and Mexico on Sunday Baroque this weekend.
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Some Beautiful Music from 18th century Peru for you today — it’s a villancico by JOSÉ DE OREJÓN Y APARICIO (1705-1765),”Por besar de este Fénix las plantas.” Villancicos are a form of Spanish song with folksong origins that tell poetic or religious narratives.
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