baroque

This week on Harmonia: virtuoso music for the violin, as we compare baroque-era Italian- and French-styles. Our featured release is Regina Angelorum: Hans Leo Hassler.

We’re celebrating the Cleveland baroque orchestra, Apollo’s Fire, which enters its thirtieth season in 2022. We’ll follow their journey from baroque standards like the Monteverdi Vespers and Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, forward to Mozart, sideways to traditional American and British music, and backwards to Celtic chant and cantigas.

Some baroque music theorists wanted to make music easier for the performer to play and more meaningful for the audience to hear. Others theorized to a level of abstraction that was brilliant but challenging to understand and apply. This week, we’ll listen to music by both the pragmatic and the puzzling.

Join us for excerpts from the concert “Hecho en Mexico” by Austin Baroque Orchestra.

The best teachers challenge and inspire us in personal, meaningful ways. This week on Harmonia, we’ll explore some famous teacher-student relationships among Renaissance and Baroque composers. Plus, Himmelsmusik -- with ensemble L'Arpeggiata.

The supergroup 50 Shades of Baroque perform in a concert most intriguingly titled eponymously. We'll hear music by the Italian composer Antonio Caldara.

This week, baroque composers remember their mentors, colleagues, and heroes through musical tributes known as tombeaux.

The last in our series of four programs about canon and fugue. This hour's devoted completely to Johann Sebastian Bach!

On this week’s program, we journey to Kraków to bathe in the rich music of the Polish Golden Age. Then, on our featured release harpsichordist Byron Schenkman takes us to the National Music Museum in Vermillion, South Dakota with the recording The Art of the Harpsichord: From Cabezón to Mozart.