Baroque&Before with Candice Agree

10/29/2025

Hungry for Vivaldi? Have you tried “il gusto italiano?” Handel did and was hooked. Tonight at 10CT on WFMT, Baroque&Before with Candice Agree presents Andrea Marcon leading the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra & countertenor Valer Sabadus. Squisito!

Italy, the land of longing for Germans for centuries, Handel among them. Early music conductor Andrea Marcon leads the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra in an exploration of “the Italian taste.” They’re joined by countertenor Valer Sabadus for arias by Handel and Vivaldi. Recorded live in con...

10/23/2025

The title is French and sums it up: “Six Concerts avec plusieurs instruments,” as Bach himself called his famous concerto collection. The Swiss recorder player and conductor Maurice Steger and Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra present all six, known today as the Brandenburg Concertos. Tonight.....

10/22/2025

Bach called them his “Six Concerts avec plusieurs instruments.” We know them as the Brandenburg Concertos. Join me tonight, 10CT for Baroque&Before with Candice Agree as Swiss recorder player & conductor Maurice Steger & Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra present all six. Can’t catch the program? Find it on wfmt.com’s On Demand page, where it will stream for 30 days after the broadcast. https://www.wfmt.com/2025/10/22/bach-the-brandenburg-concertos

The title is French and sums it up: “Six Concerts avec plusieurs instruments,” as Bach himself called his famous concerto collection. The Swiss recorder player and conductor Maurice Steger and Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra present all six, known today as the Brandenburg Concertos. Tonight.....

10/15/2025

François Couperin knew all too well that the artist, immersed in the uncertainties of his world, must depend on the protection of a patron who, in return, enhances his social image as a promoter of the arts. This principle defined the modus vivendi of musicians in the Early Modern Period, and Coupe...

10/15/2025

François Couperin told us how to play the harpsichord (“L’Art de toucher le clavecin.”) Christophe Rousset shows us how. Please join me for Baroque&Before with Candice Agree tonight, 10Central on WFMT or access the 30-day post-broadcast stream.

François Couperin knew all too well that the artist, immersed in the uncertainties of his world, must depend on the protection of a patron who, in return, enhances his social image as a promoter of the arts. This principle defined the modus vivendi of musicians in the Early Modern Period, and Coupe...

10/08/2025

Nicholas Kraemer leads the Czech Philharmonic, Collegium Vocale 1704, and vocal soloists in one of the supreme works of the Baroque era; one that has fascinated musicians and listeners for more than 250 years: Johann Sebastian Bach’s monumental Mass in b minor. Tonight’s program was recorded liv...

10/08/2025

From Gregorian chant to the galant, Bach synthesized the history of music as he knew it in his B Minor Mass. Join me tonight, 10CT for “Baroque&Before” on WFMT. Nicholas Kraemer leads the Czech Philharmonic, Collegium Vocale 1704 & vocal soloists in this live concert recording from January 24, 2025 in Prague’s Rudolfinum.

Nicholas Kraemer leads the Czech Philharmonic, Collegium Vocale 1704, and vocal soloists in one of the supreme works of the Baroque era; one that has fascinated musicians and listeners for more than 250 years: Johann Sebastian Bach’s monumental Mass in b minor. Tonight’s program was recorded liv...

10/04/2025

Two of Broadway’s most celebrated performers, Tony Award winners Brian Stokes Mitchell and Laura Benanti, take the stage at Lyric on Friday, October 10 for one unforgettable night.

10/01/2025

Creating a musical exploration of the complex intertwinings – the sacred bridges – between Judaism, Islam, and Christianity.

10/01/2025

The The King's Singers & Sarband Ensemble bring us Psalms of David: songs of lament & joy & praise & glory in settings by Salamone Rossi, Claude Goudimel, Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck & Alî Ufkî. Join me tonight, 10CT on WFMTWFMT for Sacred Bridges on Baroque&Before with Candice Agree

Creating a musical exploration of the complex intertwinings – the sacred bridges – between Judaism, Islam, and Christianity.

09/24/2025

Benedetto Marcello was inspired by the extraordinary faith he encountered in the synagogues of early 18th-century Venice. Tonight at 10CT, a program for the Jewish : Hebraic intonations & Marcello’s settings of poetic paraphrases of the Psalms of David. Join me for Baroque&Before with Candice Agree on WFMT

Passionate about Hebraic spiritual traditions, Benedetto Marcello was inspired by the extraordinary faith he encountered in the synagogues of early 18th-century Venice. Selections from Marcello’s settings of poetic paraphrases of the Psalms of David with Hebraic intonations are presented by Ensemb...

09/18/2025

Ramon Llull (1232-1316) was one of the most prominent writers and poets of medieval Catalonia, living at a time marked by the coexistence, not always peacefully, of the three Abrahamic religious cultures of his time. Jordi Savall leads La Capella Reial de Catalunya, Hespèrion XXI, and special guest...