Beautiful Music

Today’s Beautiful Music is provided courtesy of a talented young guitarist: Chaconne Klaverenga. She is playing the Grande Ouverture op.61 by Mauro Giuliani from her Debut recording.    

18th century English musician William Boyce was an organist, teacher, and composer whose circle of friends and colleagues included George Frideric Handel, Thomas Arne, Johann Sebastian Bach, and even a very young Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Boyce composed his serenata SOLOMON in 1742. Today’s Beautiful Music is a performance of SOLOMON by soprano Mary Bevan and

April is National Poetry Month, so today’s Beautiful Music features four famous baroque concertos that were accompanied by poetry. Antonio Vivaldi’s Four Seasons were each paired with a sonnet describing the season. This performance is by the Wichita State University Chamber Players conducted by John Harrison. You can also use the link below to learn

German-born musician George Frideric Handel went to London in 1712. In 1723 he moved into an apartment at 25 Brook Street, where he lived until his death in 1759. In 1968, about two centuries after Handel lived on Brook Street, another famous and influential musician moved into the flat next door … rock guitar virtuoso

Today’s Beautiful Music is by Johann Sebastian Bach, and it’s likely a piece you’ve never heard before. The Choralfantasie Wo Gott der Herr nicht bei uns halt BWV 1128 — believed to have been composed by Bach was a young man in his 20s — was only rediscovered by music scholars in 2008. This performance

Claudia Francesca Rusca lived from 1593-1676 and was an Italian musician: a composer, singer, and organist. Rusca was also a nun at the Umiliate monastery of St. Caterina in Brera. In 1630 she published some sacred music, and today’s Beautiful Music features one of them. Soprano Maria Yost and mezzo soprano Jenny Fitch sing GAUDETE

Francesca Caccini was a lutenist, singer and composer who was friendly with painter Artemisia Gentileschi. Artemisia’s father, Orazio Gentileschi, created a famous portrait called The Lute Player, that some have speculated could have been based on Francesca Caccini. Today’s Beautiful Music features sacred and secular songs by Francesca Caccini performed by soprano Elena Cecchi Fedi

Three outstanding women provide today’s Beautiful Music: violinist Solomiya Ivakhiv and pianist Tanya Bannister play the Fantasie #1 in g by Florence Price. Dr. Ivakhiv is a Ukrainian-born musician who earned degrees from Stony Brook University, M.Lysenko State Academy of Music in Ukraine, and Curtis Institute of Music. She is Associate Professor of Violin and

Today is the second of our two-part Bach Birthday Bach on the Sunday Baroque broadcast. So today’s Beautiful Music features Johann Sebastian Bach’s complete Mass in B Minor from a live concert performance by Balthasar Neumann Choir and Ensemble, conducted by Thomas Hengelbrock. The composer completed it late in life, and it is the culmination

Today’s Beautiful Music features talented French pianist Eloïse Bella Kohn playing the complete ART OF FUGUE BWV 1080 by Johann Sebastian Bach. The musician performs as a soloist and chamber musician, and she is co-founder with the violonist Christoph Koncz of the chamber music festival Europäische Musiktage Heidelberg. Use the links below to learn more about