Every year at around this time, host Suzanne Bona unveils her Sunday Baroque Holiday Gift List. They are outstanding recent recordings that are worthy of your consideration for gift giving, and you’ll hear them each week for the rest of the year. You’ll have your first chance to audition a few of her picks on Sunday Baroque this weekend.
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Tenacity pays off. Jeannette Sorrell was a precocious little girl who yearned to play the piano. Her parents kept putting her off, but in third grade, she signed up for free lessons WITHOUT TELLING THEM! As an adult Jeannette Sorrell was eager to have an orchestra gig and to play baroque music … so, she formed her own ensemble! You’ll hear the tenacious musician and her group play a Concerto by Johann Sebastian Bach on Sunday Baroque this weekend.
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There’s a terrific recent recording of French baroque music for lute and harpsichord played by a couple of exciting young musicians. You’ll have a chance to audition it, along with another new recording of a phenomenal clarinetist playing adaptations of music by Antonio Vivaldi, 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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Have you ever heard of Lucrezia Orsina Vizzana? She was an Italian singer, organist, and composer in the early 17th century. She went to a convent in Bologna in 1598, where she took music lessons from her aunt, who was the convent organist. Eventually she became a nun AND a composer. You’ll hear some of Donna Lucrezia Vizzana’s compositions on Sunday Baroque this weekend.
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A brand new recording features Johann Sebastian Bach’s GOLDBERG VARIATIONS played on the harp. It’s the debut recording of a talented and versatile young musician, Parker Ramsay. You can audition the appealing new recording on Sunday Baroque this weekend.
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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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Santiago de Murcia was a Spanish guitarist and composer – his music was so popular that some of his manuscripts were found in “New Spain” otherwise known as Mexico, in the 18th century. You’ll hear spirited guitar music by Santiago de Murcia, and other composers connected to Spain and Mexico on Sunday Baroque this weekend.
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Sunday Baroque is taking a little tour of merry old England this weekend, courtesy of some of the musicians who contributed to its rich musical history. Composer Henry Purcell, for example, excelled in both theatre and church music, and adapted a Shakespearean story for one of his operas. You’ll hear some of Henry Purcell’s music for THE FAIRY QUEEN on Sunday Baroque this weekend.
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Anna Bon was an 18th century Venetian woman — she was still a teenager when she started working as a musician in the court of Frederick the Great of Prussia. At about the same time she also published her first set of compositions – six flute sonatas that she dedicated to her musically inclined royal patron. You’ll hear one of them on Sunday Baroque this weekend.
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