August is National Water Quality Month. It’s an annual reminder of the need to protect one of our most precious and vital natural resources. This weekend you’ll hear flowing water music by George Frideric Handel, a couple of Stormy Sea Concertos, and a day in the life of the Alster River as expressed through music by Georg Philipp Telemann. It’s on Sunday Baroque this week.
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There’s nothing quite like listening to cheerful music to put you in a good mood. You’ll hear jolly and upbeat music to put a smile on your face this weekend. The happy highlights include George Frideric Handel’s duet HAPPY WE … and a positively chipper flute concerto by Antonio Vivaldi. Sunday Baroque helps you start the week in a great mood!
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Many of the best known composers from the baroque era in history were from Germany, France, England, Italy, and Spain. This weekend you’ll hear music from Scandinavia … such as Swedish violinist and composer Johan Agrell … Leipzig-born musician Johann Scheibe, who pursued his successful career in Denmark … and Norwegian composer Johann Heinrich Berlin. It’s on Sunday Baroque this week.
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You may or may not be able to pick out a bassoon from looking at an orchestra on stage, but you might recognize the SOUND of the instrument as the gruff grandfather in Peter and the Wolf. Bassoon is a double-reed member of the woodwind family. Antonio Vivaldi composed quite a few concertos featuring bassoon, and you can audition a selection from a brand new recording of them on Sunday Baroque this week.
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July 14th is Bastille Day in France – the anniversary of the storming of the bastille in 1789. This weekend Sunday Baroque will feature some of the musicians who were making music in pre-revolution France. That includes a composer who wrote a theatrical work based on Chateau Fontainebleau, where the French royalty liked to go for feasts and hunting … and a musician who wrote a loving musical tribute to the tolling bells at a Paris church dedicated to the city’s Patron Saint. It’s on Sunday Baroque this weekend.
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This Independence Day weekend, as our nation marks America 250, Sunday Baroque features performances by outstanding American ensembles. You’ll hear Cleveland’s Baroque orchestra, Apollo’s Fire… New York’s celebrated Orpheus Chamber Orchestra… and a brass ensemble from Boulder, Colorado.
And because it is the Fourth of July, we’ll also feature some dazzling Fireworks!
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In the 1920s a treasure trove of Antonio Vivaldi’s music was discovered in a monastery near Turin. Eventually, it was transferred to Turin’s National University Library, and in the year 2000, an ambitious project called THE VIVALDI EDITION was launched to record all of those manuscripts. It’s still going on, and you can hear selection from the most recent release in the series on Sunday Baroque this week.
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The summer solstice is on Sunday, June 21st – so this will be the first Sunday of Summer AND Father’s Day! You’ll hear Antonio Vivaldi’s peppy SUMMER CONCERTO from the Four Seasons played by an ensemble that includes Dutch keyboard player and two of his talented children on Sunday Baroque this weekend.
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Every year on June 14th the United States commemorates the adoption of our flag in 1777 — that was only a few years after the baroque era in history ended. We’re celebrating Flag Day on Sunday Baroque featuring a few top ensembles from across the US playing music from during the lifetime of our Founders. It’s on Sunday Baroque this week.
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What does it mean to be a trailblazer? A trailblazing musician can be someone who experiments with unusual techniques on a musical instrument … or maybe it’s a young woman who follows her passion for music from inside the walls of a convent in 17th century Italy. You’ll hear music by these trailblazers on Sunday Baroque this week.
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