What does the future hold for classical music? You can hear some young emerging talents who are keeping great music alive, including a 28-year-old French guitarist extraordinaire … a phenomenal 28-year-old American flutist … and a 16-year-old violin virtuoso who made history at age 13 as the youngest person to professionally record Antonio Vivaldi’s Four Seasons Concertos. It’s the next generation this weekend on Sunday Baroque.
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Krishnasol Jimenez is an award-winning guitarist and educator. He’s been fortunate to use a very special instrument to make some of his recordings: the only still-playable Stradivarius guitar. You can hear him play French Baroque music on that extraordinary guitar this weekend on Sunday Baroque.
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Pianist Lara Downes vividly remembers listening to a recording of Glenn Gould playing Johann Sebastian Bach’s Goldberg Variations when she was a little girl. It inspired her to become a professional musician! You’ll hear Lara Downes playing some of the music that inspired her so profoundly – it’s on Sunday Baroque this weekend.
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Agave Baroque’s 2021 recording AMERICAN ORIGINALS celebrates Black and Latino composers from Mexico, Cuba, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil and the US. You’ll hear Agave Baroque and countertenor Reginald Mobley performing music by an 18th century Afro-Brazilian composer and organist who was the grandson of enslaved people. It’s on Sunday Baroque this weekend.
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Viola is an instrument that’s often the butt of silly jokes, and there’s not a LOT of music featuring the viola. One internationally acclaimed viola player has been composing some music to make up for that. She’s also perfectly comfortable adapting violin music for her instrument, and you’ll hear her give a stirring performance of violin music by Johann Sebastian Bach on Sunday Baroque this weekend.
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