Did you know that a baroque era composer – Georg Philipp Telemann – earned the Guinness Book of World Record’s title of “most prolific composer”?? On this Labor Day holiday weekend, Sunday Baroque will celebrate the hard working musicians of the 18th century with a sampling of his thousands of compositions. It’s on Sunday Baroque.
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For their recording PEACE IN OUR TIME, Reginald Mobley and Agave Baroque explored Music of Love and Loss in the Shadow of the Thirty Years’ War. You can enjoy a bit of PEACE IN OUR TIME this weekend – it includes a moving compositions by Johann Christoph Bach — who was Johann Sebastian Bach’s older cousin – and you’ll hear it on Sunday Baroque.
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August is National Water Quality Month – an annual reminder of the need to protect our most precious and vital natural resource. Antonio Vivaldi did HIS part to pay respect to water – he composed SEVERAL Concertos with the subtitle “The Storm at Sea.” … you’ll hear one of them along with some of George Frideric Handel’s Water Music on Sunday Baroque this weekend.
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Rochelle Sennet is a pianist, teacher, and music scholar who plays a wide variety of music. She’s working on a recording series called BACH TO BLACK, which showcases performances of compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach as well as Black composers. You can hear Rochelle Sennet’s beautiful artistry playing one of Bach’s Keyboard Partitas this weekend on Sunday Baroque.
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Composers often looked to nature for inspiration, and this weekend you can hear a Concerto that Georg Philipp Telemann nicknamed THE FROGS, and a Concerto that Antonio Vivaldi nicknamed after conch shells. It’s the sounds of summer this weekend on Sunday Baroque.
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A variety of interesting new recordings have been released in 2023, and Sunday Baroque will give you a chance to sample a few of them. We’ll feature a phenomenal German violinist playing music by an Italian baroque composer … a young French guitar virtuoso playing music by Johann Sebastian Bach … and other delightful new recordings. It’s on Sunday Baroque this weekend.
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Krishnasol Jimenez is an award-winning guitarist and educator. He’s been fortunate to use a very special instrument to make some of his recordings: the only still-playable Stradivarius guitar. You can hear him play French Baroque music on that extraordinary guitar this weekend on Sunday Baroque.
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During the baroque era in the 17th and 18th centuries, people didn’t have the ability to travel as far and wide as we do today. Anything unfamiliar was seen as “exotic” or “foreign” and could be a source of great fascination and inspiration for baroque era musicians. Georg Philipp Telemann portrayed his impressions of the Swiss, the Muscovites, the Turks and the Portuguese in his FOLK OVERTURE on Sunday Baroque this weekend.
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France’s kings were huge music lovers and they employed some pretty terrific musicians to entertain them – particularly during the height of the baroque era. They had numerous ensembles featuring the best musicians from France and beyond. You’ll hear music by some of France’s most esteemed Baroque era musicians in anticipation of the July 14th Bastille Day holiday on Sunday Baroque this week.
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As we mark our nation’s birthday with Independence Day this long holiday weekend, Sunday Baroque will host an All-American celebration. You’ll hear some of the greatest hits of the 18th century played by US musical ensembles based in Washington DC, New York, Pittsburgh, Seattle, and Chicago. The musical state of the union is strong, as you’ll hear for yourself on Sunday Baroque.
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