June is the annual celebration of National Rose Month. It’s an opportunity to recognize and appreciate the many varieties of roses, and to explore their beauty and their symbolism of love and friendship, passion and desire, beauty and elegance. There’s music inspired by roses, and you’ll hear a concerto performed by a classical musician who’s had a variety of rose named after him! It’s on Sunday Baroque this week.
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Saint Patrick’s Day is coming up on March 17, and Sunday Baroque highlights this weekend will include a recording by the Irish Baroque Orchestra Chamber Soloists and some lilting traditional Irish lute solos. You’ll also hear Belfast-born flutist James Galway with the New Irish Chamber Orchestra playing a Concerto by Antonio Vivaldi on Sunday Baroque.
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The VIVALDI EDITION is a recording project of several hundred manuscripts contained in the National Library in Turin, Italy. Some of the world’s top early music specialists have participated. It’s been ongoing for about two decades, and one of the more recent installments features virtuosic bassoon concertos by Vivaldi. You’ll hear one of them on Sunday Baroque this weekend.
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Trumpet virtuoso Alison Balsom is an award-winning musician, including the 2013 Gramophone Artist of the Year, and three-time winner of the Classical Brits. Pianist Lisa Smirnova left her home in the Soviet Union in 1991 and pursued her training international and formed her own ensemble. And violinist Rachel Barton Pine is an international soloist and chamber musician. They are three of the extraordinary women you’ll hear performing on Sunday Baroque this weekend.
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Saint Patrick’s Day is coming up on March 17, and Sunday Baroque will include a recording by the Irish Baroque Orchestra Chamber Soloists and some lilting traditional Irish lute solos.
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In honor of St. Paddy’s Day, one of the most famous Irish classical musicians performs a baroque concerto on Sunday Baroque … even though he started on pennywhistle, he’ll use his famous golden flute.
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