Those portraits we see of baroque era composers usually show buttoned up older men, wearing grey powdered wigs, and looking very serious. But these composers were once young men, forging out on their own in the world. If you go to SundayBaroque.org you can see images of Johann Sebastian Bach and George Frideric Handel as YOUNG men. And you’ll hear music they composed in their youth this weekend on Sunday Baroque.
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In the 18th century, the Concert Spirituel was a French musical society that sponsored a concert series in Paris. In 1988, a new Concert Spirituel was formed to play music from the earlier group’s era. You’ll hear them in a Serenade by a versatile and business-minded French baroque composer on Sunday Baroque this weekend.
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Anna Bon was an 18th century Venetian woman — she was still a teenager when she started working as a musician in the court of Frederick the Great of Prussia. At about the same time she also published her first set of compositions – six flute sonatas that she dedicated to her musically inclined royal patron. You’ll hear one of them on Sunday Baroque this weekend.
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American violinist Rachel Barton Pine has a long list of favorite musical groups, and some of them might surprise you: Metallica, Van Halen and Black Sabbath are just a few. If you attend her concerts, you might even hear her play arrangements of their music on her 1742 Guarneri del Gesu violin. Sunday Baroque will highlight the baroque side of Rachel Barton Pine.
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