Harpsichordist Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre was born into a musical family. Her father and her brothers were all church organists, and she was a keyboard prodigy. Violinist Florence Malgoire ALSO grew up in a musical family – her father was an oboist and conductor. She formed her own early music group, you’ll hear them play a sonata by Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre on Sunday Baroque this week.
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This weekend, on the first Sunday of the new year, Sunday Baroque is celebrating with some of the greatest hits of the baroque era. They include one of the Brandenburg Concertos by Johann Sebastian Bach, a suite by Georg Philipp Telemann that is an international musical buffet, and a bit of summer warmth courtesy of Antonio Vivaldi. It’s on Sunday Baroque this weekend.
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August is National Water Quality Month – an annual reminder of the need to protect our most precious and vital natural resource. Antonio Vivaldi did HIS part to pay respect to water – he composed SEVERAL Concertos with the subtitle “The Storm at Sea.” … you’ll hear one of them along with some of George Frideric Handel’s Water Music on Sunday Baroque this weekend.
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You know the saying that, “Necessity is the mother of invention.” This weekend you’ll hear performances by a few musicians who live by that rule, including an oboist and a clarinetist who each crafted new music for their instruments by excerpting from their favorite baroque composers. There were even some specialty musical instruments invented by performers. You’ll hear these clever approaches to music-making on Sunday Baroque.
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CLAUDE DEBUSSY & JEAN-PHILIPPE RAMEAU were two French musicians from different eras. There’s a new solo piano recording that is framed as a conversation across the centuries between the two masterful French composers. You’ll have a chance to audition it on Sunday Baroque this weekend.
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Pierre-Francisque Caroubel was born in the middle of the 16th century – he was French violinist and composer who worked for France’s King Louis the 13th Some of Caroubel’s music was included in a famous 1612 dance collection, and Sunday Baroque will feature some of it.
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