Sunday Baroque

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.

This Thanksgiving holiday weekend, you’ll hear music of thankfulness, including a suite called GRATITUDE … and one of English composer Henry Purcell’s musical expressions of thanks.

Every year at this time, Sunday Baroque host Suzanne Bona compiles a list of some of her favorite recent recordings to recommend for your holiday gift giving. They are interesting works, beautifully performed. They include some of your favorite musicians, as well as some names that may be new to you.

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!

Composer, singer and harpsichordist Elisabeth Claude Jacquet de la Guerre was a wildly successful musician in the 18th century. You’ll enjoy one of Elizabeth Claude Jacquet de la Guerre’s Sonatas on Sunday Baroque this weekend

For most of the US, this is the weekend to set your clock back an hour. What will you do with your extra hour? How about listening to Sunday Baroque for some musical reminders to reset your clock, including a sonata about Parisian church bells, and a Carillon Concerto? It’s about time that you listen to Sunday Baroque this weekend!

HALLOWEEN is coming up – and nowadays it's celebrated with trick-or-treating, haunted houses and ghost stories are popular ways to celebrate. And in ancient times, the occasion was observed as the eve of the new year – a time when the worlds of the living and the dead overlapped. You’ll hear a sneaky, creepy concerto by Antonio Vivaldi, and an ICONIC piece of horror-movie music on a Halloween edition of Sunday Baroque.

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.

When you think of baroque era musicians, you may well think of composers from Italy, Germany, France, England, or Spain. Well … this weekend we'll feature music by two Guatemalan musicians from the baroque era. It’s a recording from the Grammy-nominated group El Mundo and you’ll hear some of it on Sunday Baroque.

Gonzalo Ruiz is an oboe expert. The Grammy-nominated musician has performed and recorded with ensembles internationally. He also teaches at The Juilliard School in New York, so he is training and nurturing the next generation of top-tier instrumentalists. You’ll hear Gonzalo Ruiz playing a Sonata by Georg Philipp Telemann on Sunday Baroque this week.