August is National Water Quality Month. It’s an annual reminder of the need to protect one of our most precious and vital natural resources. This weekend you’ll hear flowing water music by George Frideric Handel, a couple of Stormy Sea Concertos, and a day in the life of the Alster River as expressed through music by Georg Philipp Telemann. It’s on Sunday Baroque this week.
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Composers often looked to nature for inspiration, and this weekend you can hear a Concerto that Georg Philipp Telemann nicknamed THE FROGS, and a Concerto that Antonio Vivaldi nicknamed after conch shells. It’s the sounds of summer this weekend on Sunday Baroque.
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In addition to the many familiar instruments in a band or orchestra, there are lots of other more obscure instruments, especially in baroque and early music groups. Take “viola d’amore” for example – maybe you’ve never even heard of it, but composers such as Johann Sebastian Bach, Georg Philipp Telemann and Antonio Vivaldi used the instrument in some of their music. If you’d like to hear how some of these unusual instruments sound, listen to Sunday Baroque this weekend.
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