Beautiful Music

The marvelous bass-baritone Jonathan Woody provides today’s Beautiful Music. He is singing the aria “He was despised,” from George Frideric Handel’s oratorio MESSIAH. the Choir of Trinity Wall Street and Trinity Baroque Orchestra are conducted by Julian Wachner in this concert that was recorded in 2018 at the historic St. Paul’s Chapel in New York […]

Beware! Today’s Beautiful Music is so buoyant and infectious that it will lodge itself in your brain! Senegalese kora player Seckou Keita and Welsh harpist Catrin Finch take a joyful musical journey together. Read more about both virtuoso instrumentalists using the links below to their websites. https://www.seckoukeita.com/my-story https://www.catrinfinch.com/

Patricia Ann Neely and Jay Bernfeld are both viola da gamba players, and both musicians graduated from the esteemed La Guardia High School for Music and Art and the Performing Arts. The two celebrated their shared history with this lovely performance of Joseph Bodin de Boismortier’s Sonates à deux violes, today’s Beautiful Music. I have

Today’s date is eternally etched in our souls. On this day of solemn remembrance, we’re sharing a monumental work that expresses grief, hope, and transcendence: the REQUIEM by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. It is Beautiful Music to embrace and uplift the human spirit.

Organist Nathaniel Gumbs is a Bronx, NY native with an international career as a performer. He is also Director of Chapel Music at Yale University, where he earned his Master of Music Degree in Organ Performance. He also earned his Bachelor of Music degree at Shenandoah Conservatory in Virginia, and in 2021 completed is Doctor

Lars Vogt was a German pianist particularly known for his performances of piano music by Johannes Brahms, and as a conductor he served as Music Director of the Royal Northern Sinfonia and Orchestre de Chambre de Paris. Sadly, Lars Vogt died of cancer on September 5, 2022 — just three days short of his 52nd

On this day in 1429, the medieval French peasant girl Joan of Arc led a French army to Orléans. You can read more about her using the link below. Today’s Beautiful Music is Ex Cathedra’s performance of a French Song to Joan of Arc. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Saint-Joan-of-Arc

Justin Holland (1819–1887) was an African-American musician who played classical guitar, composed, and taught music. He arranged hundreds of compositions, and today’s Beautiful Music is Justin Holland’s arrangement of Rochester Schottische by W. H. Ruliston played by guitarist Ernie Jackson. This performance took place at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in August 2013, and Mr.

Over the years, there have been numerous claims that listening to music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart makes people smarter, and various studies have set out to prove that belief. Whether or not it’s true, listening to Mozart’s music can make us a little happier! So today’s Beautiful Music is an excerpt from one of my