Sunday Baroque host Suzanne Bona regularly interviews some of today’s most important and interesting musicians. They include rising stars like flutist Brandon Patrick George and countertenor Reginald Mobley … and acclaimed violinists such as Rachel Podger and Julien Chauvin, who have both founded their own musical ensembles. You can hear performances by ALL of these outstanding musicians 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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Every year at this time, I compile a list of some of my favorite recent recordings to recommend for your holiday gift giving. For many years the goal has been pretty straightforward: to give you practical guidance and take away a little bit of the stress of getting ready for the holiday season, which can
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Sunday Baroque is marking the Independence Day holiday weekend with baroque music performed by talented US ensembles, such as Bloomington Baroque in Indiana, Tempesta di Mare ensemble in Philadelphia, and San Francisco-based Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra. It’s a celebration of some of our country’s outstanding early music groups on Sunday Baroque.
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Lutenist Thomas Dunford is the son of two professional musicians who started performing professionally as a teenager. Jean Rondeau heard a harpsichord on the radio as a 6-year-old and told HIS parents he wanted to learn to make that sound, too. You’ll hear the two musicians collaborating on French Baroque music on Sunday Baroque this weekend.
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For many composers, making music was only a part-time profession. Two of the composers whose music you’ll hear today were nuns from their teenage years and continued to compose music from the convent. You’ll hear music composed by a range of those with other primary vocations on Sunday Baroque this weekend.
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In addition to the many familiar instruments in a band or orchestra, there are lots of other more obscure instruments, especially in baroque and early music groups. Take “viola d’amore” for example – maybe you’ve never even heard of it, but composers such as Johann Sebastian Bach, Georg Philipp Telemann and Antonio Vivaldi used the instrument in some of their music. If you’d like to hear how some of these unusual instruments sound, listen to Sunday Baroque this weekend.
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Francesco Maria Veracini was an 18th century violin “superstar” who toured Europe playing for his fans, and turned down opportunities to work for royal patrons because he was so eager to travel and play on his own terms. You’ll hear another violin “superstar” – Rachel Barton Pine — playing one of Francesco Maria Veracini’s ACADEMIC SONATAS on Sunday Baroque this weekend.
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This Sunday is Independence Day, and Sunday Baroque is celebrating with baroque music performed by talented US musicians, such as California-based Agave Baroque … New Mexico Brass Quintet … and the newly-released recording featuring Simone Dinnerstein playing American composer Richard Danielpour’s transcriptions of music by Johann Sebastian Bach. It’s a 4th of July party on Sunday Baroque this weekend.
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Poppies are symbolic of eternal life, death, sleep and beauty. John McRae’s 1915 poem “In Flanders Fields” describes the poppies that grew near the graveyards and the World War 1 Flanders battlefields, where so many soldiers lost their lives. You’ll hear James Oswald’s musical depiction of the POPPY on Sunday Baroque this Memorial Day weekend.
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