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Playlist 2023-01-22

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This Sunday is LUNAR NEW YEAR – also known as CHINESE NEW YEAR — beginning the Year of the Rabbit. The holiday is traditionally celebrated with family over a meal, along with parades, fireworks, and other festivities. You’re not likely to hear music by Johann Sebastian Bach, Antonio Vivaldi, and Domenico Scarlatti at traditional Chinese New Year celebrations, but you WILL hear some musicians of Chinese heritage performing their music on Sunday Baroque this week.

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Playlist 2023-01-15

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French violinist Florence Malgoire is from a family of professional musicians – her mother is flutist France Gombert, and her father is conductor and oboist Jean-Claude Malgoire. Florence has followed in their footsteps as an instrumentalist, and as a conductor, and founder of her own ensemble, Les Dominos. Today’s highlights include Florence Malgoire playing a Sonata by a French woman born 400 years before her – Elizabeth-Claude Jacquest de la Guerre.

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Playlist 2023-01-08

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This weekend, you’ll have one more chance to hear a few highlights from the 2022 Sunday Baroque Holiday Gift List including selections from Infusion Baroque’s recording of music by Women composers and Ensemble Amarillis’ recording of the cantata JUDITH by Frenchwoman Elizabeth Claude Jacquet de la Guerre on Sunday Baroque this weekend.

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Playlist 2022-12-18

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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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Paul Galbraith and his Brahms Guitar

Playlist 2022-12-11

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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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Bach Collegium Japan credit Steve J Sherman

Playlist 2022-11-20

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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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Playlist 2022-11-13

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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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Jeannette Sorrell credit Sisi Burns

Playlist 2022-11-06

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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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