Beautiful Music

Today’s Beautiful Music offering is from a a dynamic young musician: Sujari Britt was just 12 years old (!) when she gave this concert in 2013 at Manhattan School of Music. The child prodigy cellist’s compelling performance of Johann Sebastian Bach’s Cello Suite #3 planted seeds for her blossoming career as a musician. You’ll also […]

Today you can listen to some Beautiful Music from medieval times. The Case Western Reserve University Medieval Ensemble gives this performance of an Istanpitta from their program, “The Beginning of Joy: Italian Music of the Late Middle Ages,” performed in concert in 2015. Enjoy this intriguing and joyful performance!      

I am excited to introduce you to Adrian Anantawan. The Canadian violinist plays Beautiful Music by Johann Sebastian Bach and George Frideric Handel. In addition to his intensely expressive artistry, you may also notice his unusual manner of holding the violin bow. Adrian Anantawan was born without his right hand, a fact which did not

William White may not be a familiar name to you. The English composer lived from 1571 until c. 1634  and is not well known. Two of his small cache of known compositions are played by Abendmusik, New York’s Period Instrument String Band: Fantasia #2 in 6 parts and Fantasia no. 4 in 6 parts. This

This Beautiful and Reflective Music is my offering to you on this solemn anniversary, September 11. It is Officium Defunctorum by Tomas Luis de Victoria, the Spanish composer’s musical setting of the Office of the Dead, which includes his Requiem Mass. The soaring music wraps you up in its gorgeous harmonies, uplifting and serene.  

Boston Baroque’s 2015 performance of George Frideric Handel’s AGRIPPINA is today’s Beautiful Music highlight. The performances are sung beautifully and deliciously acted, and the staging is so simple yet clever.  The soloists are Bass-Baritone Kevin Deas, Soprano Amanda Forsythe, Soprano Susanna Phillips, and Countertenor David Hansen.            

Today’s Beautiful Music offering is a celebration of multi-tasking!  Violist Clifton Harrison tackles the solo AND all the accompanying parts of the Viola Concerto by Georg Philipp Telemann. Such fun!      

Antonio Vivaldi was not only a virtuoso violin player and composer, for many years he was a teacher at a school in Venice. The musically talented students at the all-girls school were his muses. These are concertos he composed for one of those outstanding young musicians — Anna Maria — played by Romanian violinist Mariana

On this Labor Day edition of Beautiful Music, I present TWO exceedingly hard-working musicians: the extraordinary classical and jazz trumpet virtuoso Wynton Marsalis playing music by the exceptionally prolific baroque composer Georg Philipp Telemann. Not only is Mr. Marsalis a talented, multiple-award-winning performer and composer, in this selection he is playing a Concerto for three

STELLA CAELI … Star of Heaven. The 14th century prayer was set to music by 17th century Moravian composer Philipp Jakob Rittler in response to an outbreak of the plague in Vienna. Here is this Beautiful Music offering of Rittler’s setting from Philadelphia-based ensemble Tempesta di Mare.