Beautiful Music

Modern and Curious Inventions. That’s today’s offering of Beautiful Music in Difficult Times. The music is by Biagio Marini, a virtuoso Italian violin player born in 1597 right at the start of the baroque era in history. Marini was known as a trailblazer as an instrumentalist and as a composer for strings.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CdUHhxa8QM

Beautiful music from beautiful Dresden today. These are Concertos by Johann David Heinichen, a German musician and music theory expert who was a rough contemporary of JS Bach. Heinichen wasn’t well known until 1992, when Reinhard Goebel and Musica Antiqua Koln recorded his Dresden Concertos. Here’s that groundbreaking recording, so you can have a Heinichen

Something fiery and energetic today! Welcome to the Theatre des Champs-Elysees,Paris — please sit wherever you like, and enjoy Cecilia Bartoli’s VIVA VIVALDI program with Il Giardino Armonico.  

Allow me to introduce you to the beautiful sound of the human voice singing in the countertenor range. Reginald Mobley is an amazing singer and conductor — he has sung with the world’s top early music ensembles, and has led groups such Handel + Haydn Society in Boston.  (You’ll find a link to his website

William Byrd made a list of “Eight Reasons for Learning to Sing.” They are all wise and reasonable, although I think my favorite is #2: The exercise of singing is delightfull to Nature & good to preserve the health of Man. (You can see the complete list if you click on the link below.) My

In these times of physical distancing, some of us are more keenly aware of the effects of the absence of touch from other people. There was an interesting show about this topic on the NPR program 1A on May 11th. So my offering to you today is a collection of Johann Sebastian Bach’s Toccatas —

My offering to you today is something FUN!! It’s the always-wonderful Baltimore Consort’s recording, THE ART OF THE BAWDY SONG. Yes, you read that right: bawdy song. It’s a merry collection of popular, hearty17th century songs on, shall we say, less elevated topics.  

Today’s offering of  Beautiful Music in Difficult Times is by Georg Muffat. It’s his suite subtitled GRATITUDE. All of us at Sunday Baroque are grateful that you listen. We’re grateful that you “like” our Facebook page and our posts, and we appreciate that you subscribe to our interviews and read this blog. Most of all,

Happy Mother’s Day! One of the great baroque era musical moms was Anna Magdalena Bach – she married Johann Sebastian Bach after his first wife died, becoming an instant mom to the 4 surviving children from his first marriage and going on to have 13 more with him. By all accounts it was a happy

Today I’m sharing beautiful music  from a cd called THE LVIV LUTE — a collaboration between lutenist Oleg TImofeyev and the Ukrainian early music group Sarmatica. The music is  calming, ethereal, improvisatory and a bit exotic.