Playlist Archives
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Playlist 2024-09-01
This Labor Day holiday weekend, Sunday Baroque is featuring some of the hardest working musicians of the 16th through 18th centuries: exceptionally prolific composers including German musician Michael Praetorius who wrote more than 1500 compositions … and Neapolitan keyboard virtuoso Domenico Scarlatti, who created 555 keyboard sonatas. They’ll do the work while you enjoy the…
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Playlist 2024-08-25
Some of the most accomplished composers in the baroque era were also teachers of other significant composers or friendly colleagues. It’s a small world, after all! You can relax and enjoy music in the company of some of these musical friends and colleagues. It’s on Sunday Baroque this weekend.
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Playlist 2024-08-18
Benjamin Britten’s YOUNG PERSON’S GUIDE TO THE ORCHESTRA is based on a melody by Henry Purcell … and Ralph Vaughan Williams quoted a melody from the 16th century for his FANTASY ON A THEME BY THOMAS TALLIS … and a 1960s pop group had a hit with music by Johann Sebastian Bach. You’ll hear original…
