The principal oboist for the Berlin Philharmonic LOVES baroque music, and LOVES to play chamber music. Albrecht Mayer has a new recording called BACH GENERATIONS – it has music by Johann Sebastian Bach, one of his older cousins, and two of his musical sons, and it’s on the 2023 Sunday Baroque Holiday Gift List. You can audition a selection from the album 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. Now more than ever we need to focus on the things that connect us, the things that bring light and positivity into our lives, and I think these musical selections are a great place to start.
Whether you choose to add any of them to your library, give them as gifts, or simply enjoy auditioning them each week, I hope you will enjoy discovering these wonderful musicians and recordings with me over the last weeks of 2023.
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Rochelle Sennet is a pianist, teacher, and music scholar who plays a wide variety of music. She’s working on a recording series called BACH TO BLACK, which showcases performances of compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach as well as Black composers. You can hear Rochelle Sennet’s beautiful artistry playing one of Bach’s Keyboard Partitas this weekend on Sunday Baroque.
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During the baroque era in the 17th and 18th centuries, people didn’t have the ability to travel as far and wide as we do today. Anything unfamiliar was seen as “exotic” or “foreign” and could be a source of great fascination and inspiration for baroque era musicians. Georg Philipp Telemann portrayed his impressions of the Swiss, the Muscovites, the Turks and the Portuguese in his FOLK OVERTURE on Sunday Baroque this weekend.
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In the 18th century, the Concert Spirituel was a French musical society that sponsored a concert series in Paris. In 1988, a new Concert Spirituel was formed to play music from the earlier group’s era. You’ll hear them in a Serenade by a versatile and business-minded French baroque composer on Sunday Baroque this weekend.
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Johann Sebastian Bach was a talented and revered composer, teacher, and keyboard player. Born in March 1685, his genius continues to inspire musicians and music lovers. Sunday Baroque is celebrating the composer with a two-part Bach Birthday Bash devoted to musical highlights from his extraordinary career. You’ll hear the first installment this weekend on Sunday Baroque.
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Pianist Lara Downes vividly remembers listening to a recording of Glenn Gould playing Johann Sebastian Bach’s Goldberg Variations when she was a little girl. It inspired her to become a professional musician! You’ll hear Lara Downes playing some of the music that inspired her so profoundly – it’s 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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Dr. Rochelle Sennet is a versatile musician, with a wide repertory. The prize-winning pianist has recorded (so far) two albums called BACH TO BLACK in which she combines works by Johann Sebastian Bach with works by Black composers including Samuel Coleridge Taylor, Frederick Tillis, and R. Nathaniel Dett, Florence Price, and many others. Dr. Sennet
Over the years, we’ve learned more and more about composers such as Anna Bon and their music. She was an Italian keyboard virtuosa in the 18th century, who began her musical studies in 1743 at the same Venetian music school where Antonio Vivaldi had taught until only a few years earlier. You’ll hear one of Anna Bon’s keyboard sonatas on Sunday Baroque this weekend.
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