Sunday Baroque

Sunday Baroque "Beautiful music well performed" Sunday Baroque is easy for anyone to enjoy and habit forming! Sunday Baroque is produced by WSHU Public Radio.

Fresh and inviting, upbeat and inspiring, Sunday Baroque is a weekly radio program featuring beloved and appealing music composed in the baroque era (1600-1750) and the years leading up to it. The music may be centuries-old, but it's the perfect antidote for the stress and distractions of our modern lives, so you can relax and recharge for the week ahead. Hundreds of thousands of listeners across

the United States hear Sunday Baroque on their local public radio stations, and countless more listen online across the globe. Host Suzanne Bona offers a huge variety of beloved and appealing music performed by the world's finest musicians on a wide variety of instruments.

The airline safety demonstration reminds you to secure your own oxygen mask before helping others. That’s good advice ev...
09/14/2025

The airline safety demonstration reminds you to secure your own oxygen mask before helping others. That’s good advice even when you’re on the ground. So catch your breath this weekend as Sunday Baroque takes an international tour of Baroque music in with stops in Bolivia, Japan, Wales, Venice, Sweden, and Scotland. It’s your first class ticket on Sunday Baroque this week.

https://sundaybaroque.org/playlist-2025-09-14/

If you're near Philadelphia, mark your calendar! Sunday Baroque host Suzanne Bona will moderate this symposium, which is...
09/14/2025

If you're near Philadelphia, mark your calendar! Sunday Baroque host Suzanne Bona will moderate this symposium, which is part of a larger series of excellent performances!

Challenge your understanding of who made music in the past and gain surprising insights about the female performers at the Venetian Ospedali with scholars,

https://sundaybaroque.org/playlist-2025-09-07/International Literacy Day is on September 8th. It’s intended to bring awa...
09/07/2025

https://sundaybaroque.org/playlist-2025-09-07/

International Literacy Day is on September 8th. It’s intended to bring awareness to the vital importance of literacy to both individuals and to communities. This weekend you can hear a baroque era violin concerto that was accompanied by a descriptive sonnet … ballet music for a story about a legendary literary villain … and a Mexican baroque era composer’s setting of a text from the bible. It’s on Sunday Baroque this week.

Some busy musicians who also made time to write essays or books to communicate their ideas and philosophies about music ...
08/31/2025

Some busy musicians who also made time to write essays or books to communicate their ideas and philosophies about music to other composers and performers. They include a musician whose composition book has been used in the education of generations of musicians, including Mozart and Beethoven. You’ll hear how some musical authors practiced what they preached on Sunday Baroque this Labor Day weekend.

https://sundaybaroque.org/playlist-2025-08-31/

Harpsichordist Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre was born into a musical family. Her father and her brothers were al...
08/23/2025

Harpsichordist Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre was born into a musical family. Her father and her brothers were all church organists, and she was a keyboard prodigy. Violinist Florence Malgoire ALSO grew up in a musical family - her father was an oboist and conductor. She formed her own early music group, you’ll hear them play a sonata by Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre on Sunday Baroque this week.

https://sundaybaroque.org/playlist-2025-08-24/

Arcangelo Corelli was one of the top violinists of his day – the Italian musician was also an influential innovator and ...
08/16/2025

Arcangelo Corelli was one of the top violinists of his day – the Italian musician was also an influential innovator and role model. Corelli worked at Saint Louis of the French church in Rome, and his successor there was a younger Italian violinist. You’ll hear music by BOTH composers on Sunday Baroque this weekend.

https://sundaybaroque.org/playlist-2025-08-17/

George Frideric Handel was still a young musician when he started composing operas …at around age 21 he completed his th...
08/09/2025

George Frideric Handel was still a young musician when he started composing operas …at around age 21 he completed his third and fourth operas. The music for them was lost over the years, and in the late 1990s some of it was reconstructed in an instrumental suite. You’ll hear some of Handel’s youthful opera music on Sunday Baroque this weekend.

https://sundaybaroque.org/playlist-2025-08-10/

📍Meet Sophie, the talent behind the pins!Sophie is our amazing intern who placed every single red pin on the Sunday Baro...
08/03/2025

📍Meet Sophie, the talent behind the pins!

Sophie is our amazing intern who placed every single red pin on the Sunday Baroque map—one for each of the 300+ stations that carry the show.

From Alaska to Puerto Rico, Connecticut to Oregon, Sophie helped us see the incredible reach of this community.

Thanks to her attention to detail (and serious patience!), this map now tells a beautiful story of connection through music.

https://sundaybaroque.org/playlist-2025-08-03/English musician Maurice Greene lived from 1696 until 1755, and during his...
08/03/2025

https://sundaybaroque.org/playlist-2025-08-03/

English musician Maurice Greene lived from 1696 until 1755, and during his lifetime he was a celebrated organist and composer who was a colleague of George Frideric Handel’s and a teacher to William Boyce. You’ll hear some of Maurice Greene’s instrumental music, as well as compositions by other musicians in his inner circle on Sunday Baroque this week.

Big map, big love!Every red pin on this map marks a station that carries Sunday Baroque—from coast to coast, and beyond....
08/01/2025

Big map, big love!
Every red pin on this map marks a station that carries Sunday Baroque—from coast to coast, and beyond.

We’re heard across the mainland U.S.—and in Alaska, Hawaii, Guam, and Puerto Rico, too. 🌎

And now coming to Spokane! Welcome to Spokane Public Radio in Washington State! 👋📍

Wherever you are, thank you for making Sunday Baroque part of your weekend.

🎶 Love starting your Sunday with Sunday Baroque?Your local public radio station makes that possible. Now, with federal f...
07/27/2025

🎶 Love starting your Sunday with Sunday Baroque?

Your local public radio station makes that possible. Now, with federal funding gone, they’re relying on you more than ever.

If Sunday Baroque is part of your weekend tradition, help keep it going. Become a sustaining member of your station today. Your support keeps the music playing.

The natural world is a rich source of inspiration for creative minds … including composers! Georg Philipp Telemann compo...
07/27/2025

The natural world is a rich source of inspiration for creative minds … including composers! Georg Philipp Telemann composed a piece nicknamed the CRICKET SYMPHONY that features a cacophony of cricket sounds made by the instruments. Telemann’s CRICKET SYMPHONY is one of the highlights on Sunday Baroque this week.
https://sundaybaroque.org/playlist-2025-07-27/

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Sunday Baroque’s Story

On September 6, 1987 I hosted my first radio program! It was a local show on WSHU Public Radio in my hometown of Fairfield, Connecticut and the manager there entrusted me with the responsibility and privilege of being a radio announcer despite my complete lack of experience. Armed with my newly minted degree in music, I had never even set foot in a radio station before that week, and it was truly seat-of-the-pants learning. "Sunday Morning Baroque" was born on that day. It was a 90 minute "filler" program between two network shows, airing from 8:30-10am, and the only instructions given were to "play baroque music." When I opened that microphone for the first time, it was terrifying and thrilling. If only there were a tape of those first few shows! It changed my life.

Listeners like you responded enthusiastically, and Sunday Morning Baroque lived and grew and expanded on WSHU. On September 6, 1998 -- eleven years to the day later -- the newly renamed "Sunday Baroque" was launched as a national program on four pilot stations in addition to WSHU: WGUC Cincinnati, KBAQ Phoenix, WETA Washington, DC, and WUSF Tampa. Today, more than 170 stations across the United States broadcast the program to hundreds of thousands of listeners, and Sunday Baroque is still growing as we continue to welcome new stations and new music lovers.

Reflecting on these 30 amazing years, it's clear that listeners like you are the core of our success and growth by every measure. Your calls, letters, emails, and Facebook interactions have provided encouragement, feedback, motivation, guidance and inspiration. You have touched my heart with your countless stories of how the music on Sunday Baroque has entertained, comforted, inspired, amused, and illuminated you in some way. You played the music for your family, and now your kids tell me they grew up listening to the program! And your financial support of Sunday Baroque on your local public radio station has literally made it all possible.