Christmas falls on a Sunday this year, and Sunday Baroque is planning a special day of music to celebrate the season. It’s the perfect, sparkling playlist for this merry day featuring beloved Christmas carols that date back to the baroque era and earlier … joyful baroque Christmas Concertos … and music inspired by the arrival of the Winter Solstice. Spice up your holiday with Sunday Baroque this weekend.
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Every year, Sunday Baroque host Suzanne Bona makes a list of some of her favorite recent recordings for the Sunday Baroque Holiday Gift list to help you generate ideas for the music lover on your list. You can audition a selection from a new recording of music by a talented baroque era Frenchwoman. It’s one of the new releases you’ll hear on Sunday Baroque.
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You know the saying that, “Necessity is the mother of invention.” This weekend you’ll hear performances by a few musicians who live by that rule, including an oboist and a clarinetist who each crafted new music for their instruments by excerpting from their favorite baroque composers. There were even some specialty musical instruments invented by performers. You’ll hear these clever approaches to music-making on Sunday Baroque.
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Every December Sunday Baroque host Suzanne Bona compiles a list of suggested recordings you might want to put on your gift list. And every week throughout the month, you have a chance to audition these recent releases. This year’s List includes an exciting performance by Apollo’s Fire Baroque Orchestra of the SPRING Concerto by Antonio Vivaldi, and it’s one of the highlights on Sunday Baroque this weekend.
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Every year at around this time, Suzanne Bona creates her Sunday Baroque Holiday Gift list of recordings that are worthy of your consideration for gift giving. This weekend is your first chance to audition a few of her picks, which include a thrilling recording of Antonio Vivaldi’s FOUR SEASONS by Apollo’s Fire … and a new recording of music by a 17th century Frenchwoman. It’s on Sunday Baroque this week.
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Masaaki Suzuki is an organist, harpsichordist, and conductor. The Kobe, Japan native became a church organist as a teenager, and pursued his musical studies in Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands, before returning home to found the Bach Collegium of Japan. You’ll hear Masaaki Suzuki leading his ensemble playing music by their namesake on Sunday Baroque this weekend.
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The Baroque era in history spanned about 150 years – beginning in 1600 and ending in 1750. Over the course of that century-and-a-half, new techniques were developed for playing various musical instruments, and musical ensembles became larger and more varied, and musical forms evolved. To give you some perspective, you’ll hear music composed right at the end of the baroque period on Sunday Baroque this weekend.
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As a little girl, Jeannette Sorrell was so eager to make music that she signed herself up for free piano lessons. The only problem is, she didn’t tell her parents … and she found a unique way to get around the little problem that they didn’t own a piano for her to practice on. You’ll hear Jeannette Sorrell playing a Concerto by Johann Sebastian Bach on a real instrument on Sunday Baroque this week!
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Antonio Vivaldi’s flute concerto nicknamed The Night might be more accurately called The NightMARE! Its movements have titles such as “Phantasms” and “The Dream” and its sneaky, creepy sounding slow movements make this one of Vivaldi’s more unusual Concertos. You’ll hear Vivaldi’s ghostly concerto in anticipation of Halloween on Sunday Baroque this weekend.
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The United Nations was founded in 1945, and each year that occasion is celebrated on October 24th. In honor of UN DAY, Sunday Baroque is featuring a multi-cultural collection of musical ideas, including some anonymous 17th century Bolivian music … sacred music by Mexican baroque composer … and selections from a cantata by a 17th century Frenchwoman from a brand-new recording. It’s all on Sunday Baroque this week.
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