Today’s Beautiful Music is a fast-paced and fun competition between to top-tier musicians: violinist Ray Chen and flutist Jasmine Choi. It’s their FINISH THE MELODY battle … a classical piece plays, and the two race to see who knows it and can continue playing the piece. They’re both great sports, in addition to being fine […]

Today’s Beautiful Music features a Sonata for Flute and Harp by Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges. He was an 18th century French composer and virtuoso violinist, as well as a champion fencer. The performers are flutist Amelie Michel and harpist Sandrine Chatron.

Ahhh, Bach! Today’s Beautiful Music is a live concert performance by the Georgian Chamber Soloists, with violinist and Artistic Director Sandro Tigishvili and oboist Elisa T. De Angelis. This energetic concert took place at the Festival della Piana Del Cavaliere on September 9, 2022 in Orvieto, Italy.

French operatic coloratura soprano Sabine Devieilhe is known for her interpretation of works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Baroque music, and 19th-century operas. The word “coloratura” comes from the Latin word colorare (meaning “to color”) and a coloratura soprano is the highest voice, and it’s characterized by virtuosic fast notes that are light and brilliantly executed.

This weekend (August 2-4) is the annual TWINS DAYS FESTIVAL in Twinsburg, OH. The main mission of the event includes providing a vehicle for celebrating the uniqueness of twins and others of multiple birth. (See link below for more information about Twins Days.) Today’s Beautiful Music features a couple of musical twins from Washington, DC

Today’s Beautiful Music is a recording of a full concert that was streamed in February 2021. North Carolina Chamber Music Institute hosted a concert called CHAMBER MUSIC TREASURES: MUSIC BY AFRICAN AMERICAN COMPOSERS. The program included music by Florence Price, Adolphus Hailstork, Samuel Coleridge -Taylor, Joseph Boulogne Chevalier de Saint-Georges, and James Weldon Johnson. There

Markellos Chryssicos and Venice Baroque Orchestra decided to feature selections from various settings of the story L’OLIMPIADE. Dozens of composers have set the libretto to music, and this compilation includes settings by Leonardo Leo, Johann Adolf Hasse, Giuseppe Sarti, Josef Mysliveček, Giovanni Paisiello, Davide Perez, Florian Leopold Gassmann, and many others. Use the link below

As the Paris Olympics continue, we’re having a marathon listening tour of some of the numerous opera settings of Pietro Metastasio’s libretto for THE OLYMPIAD. Today’s Beautiful Music is Domenico Cimarosa’s setting, performed by Christophe Rousset leading Les Talens Lyriques. It’s from their recording released in May 2024.

Today’s Beautiful Music is another setting of L’OLIMPIADE, an opera with a plot by Pietro Metastasio, and set to music by more than 50 composers. This version is by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, composed in 1735.