Baroque&Before

#EarlyMusicWednesday Swiss recorder player & conductor Maurice Steger & Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra present Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos tonight at 10CT on WFMT. Join me for “Baroque&Before” and enjoy this portrait of a young & hunky Bach wfmt.com/2026/02/25/bac…

#EarlyMusicWednesday Bach’s Leipzig chorale preludes: the pinnacle of his sacred works for organ. Recorded live in concert, Bern Cathedral organist Daniel Gauss plays the Cathedral’s 1729 Gottlieb Leuw organ. 2nite, 10CT on @WFMTclassical’s @BaroqueBefore wfmt.com/2026/03/18/the…

#EarlyMusicWednesday Vox Luminis & Freiburg Baroque Consort perform enchanting wedding cantatas by JS Bach & older cousin, JC Bach, plus Heinrich Schütz’s “How good and pleasant it is when G-d’s people live together in unity!” 2nite, 10 CT on WFMT wfmt.com/2026/03/11/jus…

@TheMonologist She’s a robot. Of course she could play the piano!

As well as being a famous Hollywood actress JULIE NEWMAR was also a patented inventor, real estate magnet and classically trained concert Pianist. Here she is playing Chopin’s “Fantasie-Impromptu” on the TV show ‘My Living Doll’ in 1964.

#EarlyMusicWednesday Bach synthesized the history of music as he knew it in his B Minor Mass. 2nite 10CT on @BaroqueBefore, Nicholas Kraemer leads the Czech Philharmonic, Collegium Vocale 1704 & vocal soloists in this live concert recording from Prague. wfmt.com/2026/02/18/bac…

#EarlyMusicWednesday Love is complicated, and so the 14th century’s ars subtilior. Join me tonite, 10CT on @WFMTclassical on @BaroqueBefore wfmt.com/2026/02/11/ars…

#EarlyMusicWednesday Guillaume de Machaut was 14-century Europe’s greatest poet, composer & exemplar of the ars nova musical style. Join me tonite, 10CT for @BaroqueBefore for Guillaume’s “Le Remède de Fortune”on @WFMTclassical. wfmt.com/2026/02/04/gui…

#EarlyMusicWednesday Vibrato on a (non-electronic) keyboard? This effect and more is possible with the clavichord. Join me tonight, 10CT for @BaroqueBefore on @WFMTclassical for an intimate program of works for clavichord by Johann Jakob Froberger. wfmt.com/2026/01/14/sou…

#EarlyMusicWednesday Our special Christmas edition: Bach‘s Christmas Oratorio. Jordi Savall leads La Capella Reial de Catalunya, Le Concert des Nations & soloists, recorded live in concert December, 2019 in Barcelona’s Palau de la Música. wfmt.com/2025/12/24/bac…

#EarlyMysucWednesday 2 hours of pastoral Christmas concertos 2nite, 10CT on @BaroqueBefore on @WFMTclassical wfmt.com/2025/12/17/ita…

#EarlyMusicWednesday Handel recast the story of Judas Maccabaeus as a celebratory ode to King George II, with music of unprecedented refinement, gripping suspense, and drama. Join us tonight, 10CT for @BaroqueBefore on @WFMTclassical wfmt.com/2025/12/10/han…

This is Mr. Paworotti. His favorite Christmas song is Howl-lelujah. If you'll excuse him, his solo is coming up. 13/10

#EarlyMusicWednesday The Tallis Scholars in sacred works by Renaissance masters kicks off our December holiday programs. Handel’s Judas Maccabeus, Italian pastoral Christmas concertos & Bach’s Christmas Oratorio coming up. Join us 10p CT on @WFMTclassical wfmt.com/2025/12/03/the…

Chaconnes à son goût #Bach theviolinchannel.com/bach-archive-l…

#EarlyMusicWednesday Tonight at 10CT on @WFMTclassical, join us for a concert from Zurich’s Early Music Festival. Voces Suaves & Basel’s Capricornus Consort offer madrigals & instrumental works by Monteverdi & his contemporaries. wfmt.com/2025/11/19/the…

#EarlyMusicWednesday Hungry for Vivaldi? Have you tried “il gusto italiano?” Handel did and was hooked. 2nit, 10CT on @BaroqueBefore, Andrea Marcon leads the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra & countertenor Valer Sabadus. Squisito! wfmt.com/2025/10/29/cou…

#EarlyMusicWednesday Bach called them his “Six Concerts avec plusieurs instruments.” Join me tonight at 10CT for “Baroque&Before.” Maurice Steger & Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra present all six Brandenburg Concertos. On Demand 30 days post-broadcast. wfmt.com/2025/10/22/bac…

#EarlyMusicWednesday François Couperin told us how to play the harpsichord (“L’Art de toucher le clavecin.”) Christophe Rousset shows us how. Please join me for @BaroqueBefore tonight, 10Central on @WFMTclassical or access the 30-day post-broadcast stream. wfmt.com/2025/10/15/in-…

@BBCSteveR @red_loeb “It is no accident that…” не случайно…The (Soviet) Russian phrase used to explain every conceivable action with the theory of economic determinism. Saves everyone the trouble of thinking.

In today’s #ReadingRussia I look at what the Russian newspapers are saying about ‘victory’…and the country’s economic problems.