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Beautiful Music NOW - Christian Giuseppe Lidarti

portrait odCristiano Giuseppe Lidarti
Nathanial Dance Holland
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Google Art Project
portrait of Cristiano Giuseppe Lidarti, 1759-1760

Musician Christian Giuseppe Lidarti lived from 1730 until the 1790s, so he was born at the end of the baroque era, and lived through the transitional years into the classical era. Today's Beautiful Music was commissioned of Lidarti for the anniversary of the inauguration of the Portuguese Synagogue in Amsterdam. Boij besalom and Col anesama (Halleluyah) are performed by Janet Pape, Yoko Honda, Xavier Lambert, Elena Adreyev, and Nicholas Fairbank.

Suzanne Bona is the host and executive producer of Sunday Baroque, a nationally syndicated weekly radio show of Baroque and early music which she originated on WSHU in 1987.