October 5th is the annual observance of World Teachers Day!! The celebration of the contributions and influences of teachers is the perfect opportunity to listen to music by baroque era composers who were also influential teachers, and the talented students they inspired. It’s on Sunday Baroque this week.
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Every week Sunday Baroque turns BACK the clock every week, and this weekend – as we start 2025, you can travel back 300 years to hear music from 1725. It includes one of Johann Sebastian Bach’s cantatas and the Easter Oratorio, an Italian cello and flute sonata, and a French suite that entertained King Louis the 14th It’s on Sunday Baroque this week.
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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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Monarchies bankrolled a significant amount of baroque era music. And a few royals like Princess Wilhelmine in the 18th century, were hands-on music lovers who composed music themselves! You’ll hear one of Princess Wilhelmine’s Flute Sonatas this weekend on Sunday Baroque.
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October 24th is UNITED NATIONS DAY — the annual commemoration of the establishment of the UN, celebrating peace, human rights and cooperation. You’ll hear an international cross-section of music, including a 16th century Portuguese composer, an 18th century Swedish musician, and some anonymous 17th century Bolivian compositions. It’s on Sunday Baroque this weekend.
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For their recording PEACE IN OUR TIME, Reginald Mobley and Agave Baroque explored Music of Love and Loss in the Shadow of the Thirty Years’ War. You can enjoy a bit of PEACE IN OUR TIME this weekend – it includes a moving compositions by Johann Christoph Bach — who was Johann Sebastian Bach’s older cousin – and you’ll hear it on Sunday Baroque.
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A variety of interesting new recordings have been released in 2023, and Sunday Baroque will give you a chance to sample a few of them. We’ll feature a phenomenal German violinist playing music by an Italian baroque composer … a young French guitar virtuoso playing music by Johann Sebastian Bach … and other delightful new recordings. It’s on Sunday Baroque this weekend.
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Infusion Baroque is a Canadian quartet – they were winners of the Grand Prize and Audience Prize at the 2014 Early Music America Baroque Performance Competition. Back in the late 1990s, Concord Ensemble won the Grand Prize in the very FIRST Early Music America/Dorian Recording Competition. You’ll hear performances by BOTH trailblazing groups on Sunday Baroque this weekend.
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The VIVALDI EDITION is a recording project of several hundred manuscripts contained in the National Library in Turin, Italy. Some of the world’s top early music specialists have participated. It’s been ongoing for about two decades, and one of the more recent installments features virtuosic bassoon concertos by Vivaldi. You’ll hear one of them on Sunday Baroque this weekend.
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October 5th is the annual observance of WORLD TEACHERS’ DAY … it’s an opportunity to honor the contributions and influences of teachers on our communities. Sunday Baroque will feature some baroque era musicians who were also influential teachers and the talented students they inspired.
