Sunday Baroque is welcoming the new year with some of the greatest hits of the baroque era – including the beloved Harp Concerto by George Frideric Handel … Johann Sebastian Bach’s Third Orchestral Suite with its famous AIR on the G STRING. Start your new year with Sunday Baroque this weekend.
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Every year, Sunday Baroque host Suzanne Bona makes a list of some of her favorite recent recordings for the Sunday Baroque Holiday Gift list to help you generate ideas for the music lover on your list. You can audition a selection from a new recording of music by a talented baroque era Frenchwoman. It’s one of the new releases you’ll hear on Sunday Baroque.
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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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Masaaki Suzuki is an organist, harpsichordist, and conductor. The Kobe, Japan native became a church organist as a teenager, and pursued his musical studies in Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands, before returning home to found the Bach Collegium of Japan. You’ll hear Masaaki Suzuki leading his ensemble playing music by their namesake on Sunday Baroque this weekend.
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The Baroque era in history spanned about 150 years – beginning in 1600 and ending in 1750. Over the course of that century-and-a-half, new techniques were developed for playing various musical instruments, and musical ensembles became larger and more varied, and musical forms evolved. To give you some perspective, you’ll hear music composed right at the end of the baroque period on Sunday Baroque this weekend.
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As a little girl, Jeannette Sorrell was so eager to make music that she signed herself up for free piano lessons. The only problem is, she didn’t tell her parents … and she found a unique way to get around the little problem that they didn’t own a piano for her to practice on. You’ll hear Jeannette Sorrell playing a Concerto by Johann Sebastian Bach on a real instrument on Sunday Baroque this week!
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Antonio Vivaldi’s flute concerto nicknamed The Night might be more accurately called The NightMARE! Its movements have titles such as “Phantasms” and “The Dream” and its sneaky, creepy sounding slow movements make this one of Vivaldi’s more unusual Concertos. You’ll hear Vivaldi’s ghostly concerto in anticipation of Halloween on Sunday Baroque this weekend.
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The United Nations was founded in 1945, and each year that occasion is celebrated on October 24th. In honor of UN DAY, Sunday Baroque is featuring a multi-cultural collection of musical ideas, including some anonymous 17th century Bolivian music … sacred music by Mexican baroque composer … and selections from a cantata by a 17th century Frenchwoman from a brand-new recording. It’s all on Sunday Baroque this week.
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This weekend on Sunday Baroque you can hear some of the talented young musicians who are keeping the tradition of great music alive, including Christian Li, the Australian violinist who turns 15 at the end of this month … and 23-year-old recorder dynamo Lucie Horsch. You’ll hear these and other young virtuosos on Sunday Baroque this weekend.
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Successful collaborations play an important role in musical history. In the baroque era, there was George Frideric Handel and his fan and patron Charles Jennens, who partnered with him on several oratorios, including SAUL. And there was James Paisible who worked with English playwright and actor Colley Cibbers on his comedy SHE WOU’D AND SHE WOU’D NOT. Those are a couple of the productive collaborations coming up on Sunday Baroque this weekend.
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