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Happy National Rose Month! It’s a perfect opportunity to present you with this lavish musical bouquet — a 1707 oratorio by Alessandro Scarlatti, Il giardino di Rose, La SS. Vergine del Rosario. (The Rose Garden)  It’s a beautiful historical instrument performance by Il Complesso Barocco, led by Alan Curtis.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAyfduOOHWs

A few days ago, I had the great pleasure to speak with a musician I’ve known about for decades, but had never encountered personally. Mark Kroll is a champion of the harpsichord — a performer, teacher and scholar, and a delightful raconteur! Our conversation will be posted on SundayBaroque.org in the Interviews section soon. In

It’s gratifying to be able to share less well known music and musicians with you. Today, my offering of Beautiful Music is a a Bolivian Festival — a concert performance of Bolivian Baroque music!    

What a thrill to discover an ancient yet modern-sounding motet by a composer whose name was new to me: Vicente Lusitano. The 16th century Portuguese musician was also an ordained priest for the first part of his adulthood, and he traveled to Italy for his musical career. Below is a biography so you can familiarize

Today’s offering of Beautiful Music is a juxtaposition of old and new. Calefax Reed Ensemble uses oboes, bassoons, English horns, and a variety of clarinets and saxophones – sometimes to play arrangements of music that was written long before those instruments were invented. Here they play haunting music from the 15th century by Johannes Ockeghem

June 6 is the annual celebration of Yo-Yo Day! And while I fondly remember my red light-up “butterfly” yo-yo, what I prefer to share with you today is … (bet you’ve already guessed!) … Yo-Yo Ma! The second of his three recordings of Johann Sebastian Bach’s 6 Suites for Unaccompanied Cello was augmented by collaborations