Since 1994, February has been designated as National Bird Feeding Month. So on this last day of January, as we begin the month-long celebration, here is Beautiful Music to remind you to help out our feathered friends. New York Philharmonic flutist Yoobin Son is featured playing Antonio Vivaldi’s “Goldfinch” Concerto, Op. 10, #3 with violinists […]
Beautiful Music in Difficult Times January 31, 2022 Read More »
“Chaconne” is a musical form that was popular in the 17th and 18th centuries: a repeated harmonic progression overlaid with multiple variations. One well known Chaconne is by Johann Sebastian Bach from his Violin Partita#2 BWV1004. Thomas Crawford and the American Classical Orchestra with Mexican mezzo-soprano Guadalupe Peraza presented their Chaconne Project, a virtual concert
Beautiful Music in Difficult Times January 30, 2022 Read More »
The title of this November 23, 2019 performance by Ars Lyrica Houston is HANDEL IN LOVE. Baroque oboe player Kathryn Montoya is the soloist playing Handel’s Oboe Concerto in g HWV 287 — Beautiful Music played on one of the composer’s favorite instruments! You can also read more about the talented Kathryn Montoya using the
Beautiful Music in Difficult Times January 29, 2022 Read More »
Violinists Anna Maberry and Reynaldo Patiño provide today’s Beautiful Music. They’re playing Two duets for 2 treble instruments by Johann Vierdanck. He was a 17th century German violinist, organist and composer. You can also use the links below to learn more about these two talented young violinists. https://www.lasavesmusic.com/reynaldo-patino https://www.wwcmf.org/anna-maberry-june-2020
Beautiful Music in Difficult Times January 28, 2022 Read More »
With the news a few days ago that the powerful James Webb Telescope had reached its destination after a million-mile journey, I was reminded of a wonderful space/earth flute duet from a few years ago. Astronaut Cady Coleman was on the International Space Station and is a flute player who brought along her instrument on
Beautiful Music in Difficult Times January 27, 2022 Read More »
Here’s your mid-week pick-me-up: Johann Sebastian Bach’s Cantata BWV 214: Tönet, ihr Pauken, erschallet Trompeten. (Sound, you drums! Ring out, you trumpets!) Bloomington Bach Cantata Project presented this Beautiful Music as part of the Bloomington (Indiana) Early Music Festival in May 2021.
Beautiful Music in Difficult Times January 26, 2022 Read More »
Confession: I am completely smitten with a hippopotamus. She’s not just any hippopotamus. Her name is Fiona, and she was born five years ago today at the Cincinnati Zoo. She arrived six weeks prematurely, and weighed only 29 pounds — about half the normal size. The fragile preemie was nurtured and tended to round-the-clock by
Beautiful Music in Difficult Times January 24, 2022 Read More »
I was pleased to receive an email about the release of a new recording single featuring Infusion Baroque. The terrific Canadian ensemble plays the Flute Sonata in a minor by Wilhelmine von Bayreuth. It’s a preview of their upcoming album VIRTUOSA, which is scheduled to be released in June 2022. Enjoy this Beautiful Music by
Beautiful Music in Difficult Times January 22, 2022 Read More »
What a pleasure to share this extraordinary live performance of music by Chiara Margarita Cozzolani (1602–1676?),Francesca Caccini (1587–1640), Barbara Strozzi (1619–1677), Alessandro Stradella (1639–1682), Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710–1736), and others. This Beautiful Music comes from a November 12, 2021 concert at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in Manhattan in a program called The Divine Feminine: Centering
Beautiful Music in Difficult Times January 21, 2022 Read More »
What a pleasure to share this beautiful live performance of Beautiful Music. Oboist Debra Nagy, who is founder of the Cleveland group Les Delices, curates her SalonEra series. From their program, Phoenix of Mexico, this is A ESTE EDIFICIO CELEBRE by Andres Flores.
Beautiful Music in Difficult Times January 19, 2022 Read More »
