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Today’s Beautiful Music is by Diego Ortiz, an outstanding Spanish composer and music theory expert who lived from 1510-1570. He spent most of his musical career in Italy, working for Pedro de Urries, who was the Spanish viceroy in Naples, as well as a job with Philip II of Spain. Concerto Scirocco performs Diego Ortiz’s infectiously […]

Today’s Beautiful Music is a concert recording from November 2022 by MARIN BAROQUE, a period instrument ensemble in San Rafael, California. The title of the program is This Wandering Sun/A Este Sol Peregrina, which comes from a composition by Tomás de Torrejón y Velasco (1644-1728) who was born in Spain, but pursued his musical career

Today’s Beautiful Music is a lovely, lively playlist of Indigenous Music of Latin America. The selections represent a wide variety of traditional music, instruments, dancing, and attire from various regions and peoples. I hope you enjoy the celebratory mood!

Composer Antonio de Salazar lived from the middle of the 17th century until 1715. His career highlights including holding the job as Chapelmaster at two important churches in what is now Mexico: first at Puebla Cathedral and later at Mexico City Cathedral. Today’s Beautiful Music is a 1698 composition by Antonio de Salazar: Atención, atención (1698).

I’m excited to share a thrilling, captivating performance as your Beautiful Music experience today! In 1939, Mexican composer Silvestre Revueltas (1899-1940) composed music for the film LA NOCHE DE LOS MAYAS (The Night of the Mayans) and created an orchestral suite from the film music. Revueltas was a violinist and conductor, in addition to being a

José de Orejón y Aparicio was an 18th century Peruvian organist and composer. His jobs included Chief Organist and Chapelmaster at Lima Cathedral. Soprano Josefien Stoppelenburg sings MARIPOSA (butterfly) by José de Orejón y Aparicio from a June 2022 at Iglésia Regina Angelorum Colonial City, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

Although musician Juan de Lienas was born in Spain, he moved to Mexico as a young man in the early 1600s, and worked at two convents near Mexico City. Today’s Beautiful Music is a 2018 performance of one of Juan de Lienas’ church compositions, COENANTIBUS AUTEM ILLIS. Use the link below to learn more about

As the saying goes, “Well behaved women seldom make history.” Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz OSH made history! The writer, philosopher, composer and poet, and nun was born Juana Ramírez de Asbaje in the 1650s (during the baroque era!) in what is now Mexico to a Spanish father and Creole mother. Her mother recognized

Brazilian musician Ignacio Parreiras Neves was a composer, singer, and conductor who lived from 1730 until 1794. His compositions were mainly religious works and, unfortunately, most of his music has been lost. Today’s Beautiful Music is one of compositions that survived the centuries — a lovely CREDO that was composed in the 18th century but

Bogotá-born musician José Cascante was a composer and organist, and worked as Chapelmaster of his home city’s cathedral from 1646 until his death, and oversaw the installation of its organ. Today’s Beautiful Music is from a 2021 concert performance in Mexico of José Cascante’s Qué dulcemente que canta by Música Ficta, whose members are tenor