Beautiful Music

The marvelous trumpeter Justin Bland plays Beautiful Music by George Frideric Handel today. It’s an excerpt from a live performance of Handel’s Trumpet Suite HWV 341: beautifully played and vivacious. It’s a perfect pick-me-up! Handel: Trumpet Suite in D, HWV 341 (IV-V) Performance Excerpt – Justin Bland (Baroque Trumpet) – YouTube Justin Bland Interview https://sundaybaroque.org/podcasts/justinbland.mp3

Le Passage de la Mer Rouge (The Passages of the Red Sea) is a 1708 Cantata by Elizabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre. This performance of her Beautiful Music is given by Le Tendre Amour: Luanda Siqueira, soprano – Adriana Alcaide, violin – Kathryn Elkin, oboe – Sébastien Perrin, traverso – Sofie Vanden Eynde, théorbe –

An uplifting and cheery performance by harpsichordist Joyce Chen of Beautiful Music by Johann Sebastian Bach. The delightful Dec. 2021 performance of the opening section of Bach’s Italian Concerto In F Major, BWV 971 takes place in Zuckermann Harpsichord Workshop in Stonington, Connecticut. You can also use the link below to hear my conversation with

Today’s Beautiful Music will have you tapping your toes! It will also have you marveling at the remarkable gifts of soprano Angel Blue. She performs Pablo Luna’s Canción Española, El niño judío with Deutsche Radio Philharmonie conducted by Karel Mark Chichon. When you watch this exciting performance, you’ll want to learn more about the singer using

Early Baroque era violinist and composer Giovanni Battista Fontana enjoyed a successful career as a musician across Italy, but his life was cut short by the plague of 1629–31. Today’s Beautiful Music is one of Giovanni Battista Fontana’s posthumously published 18 Violin Sonatas played on baroque violin by Alana Youssefian, with members of Voices of

Happy New Year! Johann Sebastian Bach composed his Cantata BWV 171: Gott, wie dein Name, so ist auch dein Ruhm (God, as Your name is, so is also Your praise) in Leipzig for New Year’s Day. This Cantata, first performed on January 1, 1729, is today’s Beautiful Music. Patrick Chiu conducts this performance by SingFest Choral

Today’s New Year’s Eve Beautiful Music offering is a concert from last New Year’s Eve. It took place at Thomaskirche in Leipzig — the church where Johann Sebastian Bach worked for the last decades of his life. Organist Ullrich Böhme and Calmus Ensemble are the performers. Please enjoy a happy and safe New Year’s Eve

As this year comes to a close, I wanted to share with you an artist who particularly impressed me in 2021: J’Nai Bridges. The Grammy-nominated mezzo soprano talks about her “village” of supporters in life, who have nurtured her and her art. Today’s Beautiful Music includes her telling her story, and singing one of her

Jeanine De Bique is a strikingly talented performer. The soprano is a brilliant musician and a passionate interpreter, and she teamed up with Patrick Summers and Houston Grand Opera on this program of music by George Frideric Handel and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Their uplifting collaboration is today’s Beautiful Music. Jeanine De Bique in Concert with

Johann Sebastian Bach’s Christmas Oratorio is a set of six Cantatas for the Christmas season. This November 2021 live concert performance of the complete Christmas Oratorio at Canterbury Cathedral in England features The Girls and Lay Clerks of the Cathedral Choir with The Harmonious Society of Tickle-Fiddle Gentlemen. In addition to enjoying this lovely performance,