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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March 8th is International Women’s Day, an annual celebration that honors the achievements and contributions of women in all fields. Sunday Baroque is celebrating the accomplishments of some top-notch women MUSICIANS. They include baroque-era women composers such as 18th century French lutenist Julie Pinel and 17th century Italian nun Isabella Leonarda. We’re also featuring some leading current-day women musicians such as conductor Emmanuelle Haim, trumpeter Alison Balsom, and viol player & scholar Laury Guttiérez 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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Russian composer, virtuoso pianist, and conductor Sergei Rachmaninoff lived from 1873 until 1943. He also taught music, and the woman who is considered to be his last living student recently released a new recording. She’s a 97-year-old pianist who began as a child prodigy, and you’ll hear her perform music by Johann Sebastian Bach from that recording on Sunday Baroque this weekend.
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German organist and composer Johann Sebastian Bach was born in March of 1685, and every year Sunday Baroque throws a little birthday celebration for the composer. This year, for the first time, it’s a two-part celebration. This weekend is the first installment of the Bach Birthday Bash, and it includes performances by young musicians who love Bach, such as recorder player Lucie Horsch, flutist Brandon Patrick George, and the Catalyst Quartet. It’s the Bach Birthday Bash on Sunday Baroque this weekend.
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Boston Camerata highlighted some exceptional musicians on their Nueva Espana recording – composers who were active in Spain as well as Mexico during the baroque and late renaissance eras. You’ll hear Boston Camerata perform music from Nueva Espana on Sunday Baroque this weekend.
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