This Memorial Day weekend on Sunday Baroque, you’ll hear a luminous 17th-century choral work called Eternal Light, reflective music by a composer who died in military service to his royal patron, plus stirring marches for trumpet and organ.
Spend part of the holiday weekend with Sunday Baroque.
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Halloween is next week — and it’s commonly celebrated with kids trick-or-treating door-to-door, haunted houses and costume parades. But in ancient times, the occasion was observed as the eve of the new year – a time when the worlds of the living and the dead overlapped. This weekend, you’ll hear a sneaky, creepy concerto by Antonio Vivaldi, as well as an iconic piece of horror-movie music. It’s on Sunday Baroque this week.
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The airline safety demonstration reminds you to secure your own oxygen mask before helping others. That’s good advice even when you’re on the ground. So catch your breath this weekend as Sunday Baroque takes an international tour of Baroque music in with stops in Bolivia, Japan, Wales, Venice, Sweden, and Scotland. It’s your first class ticket on Sunday Baroque this week.
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George Frideric Handel was still a young musician when he started composing operas …at around age 21 he completed his third and fourth operas. The music for them was lost over the years, and in the late 1990s some of it was reconstructed in an instrumental suite. You’ll hear some of Handel’s youthful opera music on Sunday Baroque this weekend.
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When you think of baroque era musicians, you may well think of composers from Italy, Germany, France, England, or Spain. Well … this weekend we’ll feature music by two Guatemalan musicians from the baroque era. It’s a recording from the Grammy-nominated group El Mundo and you’ll hear some of it on Sunday Baroque.
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Guitarist Richard Savino and his group El Mundo released a new recording in Spring 2021 featuring music from the Cathedral of Guatemala City. The Grammy-nominated musicians are exploring a rich variety of music from colonial Latin America during the baroque era. Richard Savino and two of the singers on the recording – Nell Snaidas and
