Sunday Baroque celebrates Labor Day weekend with a variety of music by one of the hardest working baroque composers: Georg Philipp Telemann. Over his 86 years, he earned a reputation as a respected and innovative musician, and a composer of record-setting scope.

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“To sing well and to dance is to be well educated,” according to Plato. You can appreciate the joyful sounds of Renaissance and Baroque dance music, including Johann Sebastian Bach’s First Orchestral Suite, which features a variety of popular baroque era dance forms. Feel free to sing and dance along when you hear it this…

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We’ll burst a few bubbles this weekend, taking a look at some of music’s apocryphal stories, questionable legends and misattributions. Did Albinoni really compose his famous Adagio? Did Palestrina really “save” church music? And was Handel really inspired by the humming of a blacksmith? Find out this weekend on Sunday Baroque.

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