Wine Tasting - Humans first started making wine about 8,000 years ago in the Southern Caucasus region of what is now the country of Georgia, and we've been writing, making art, and yes, singing about it for almost as long. This week on Harmonia, pour a glass of your favorite or simply let the music intoxicate you as we sample music about wine. Plus, on our featured recording, Alta Early Music Ensemble takes us on a passeggiata with Leonardo Da Vinci.
This week on Sunday Baroque you'll hear two dynamic trumpet-playing women one is a Norwegian trumpeter, singer, and songwriter who formed her own ten-piece, all-female brass ensemble. And the other is an English trumpeter, arranger, producer, and teacher who's premiered numerous concertos written just for her. You'll hear performances by these two dynamic women in music on Sunday Baroque this weekend.
This special will feature Jocelyn Hagen's acclaimed work, Here I Am, performed with chamber orchestra, members of the nationally recognized Angelica Cantanti Youth Choirs Treble Singers under the direction of Philip Brown, and Grammy Award-winning soprano soloist, Sarah Brailey. Hagen's work seeks the feminine, bringing to light the love and power God has bestowed on women throughout history and in our lives today. This piece will be paired with movements from Dixit Dominus by Mariana von Martines, an under sung, yet brilliant, Classical-era composer.
Simon Keenlyside is one of the world's most sought-after and charismatic singers, noted for his versatility and highly charged performances on stage. He joins music director Franz Welser-Möst for an evening of Mahler, featuring the moody, enigmatic Seventh Symphony, sometimes called Song of the Night.
Music Director Manfred Honeck conducts Mussorgsky's "Night on Bald Mountain" and Beethoven's Symphony No. 7. Denis Matsuev performs Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2.