"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.
12/07/2025
Music is a great gift for the person who has everything –and it’s a great gift to give yourself. Every December Sunday Baroque host Suzanne Bona compiles list of suggested recordings you might want to put on YOUR gift list. Best of all, you have a chance to audition these recent releases throughout the month, so you have a better idea of what you’re getting. This weekend you’ll hear pianist Simone Dinnerstein’s new album on Sunday Baroque.
In addition to music expressing GRATITUDE on this Thanksgiving weekend, it's the kick-off the 2025 Sunday Baroque Holiday Gift List. These are some of the fresh and vibrant recordings of the year that Suzanne Bona hand-picks as suggestions for your holiday gift giving. Each week through the end of the year, you can audition selections from recordings on the list to provide inspiration for your holidays.
Saint Cecilia was the patroness of music and musicians. Her Feast Day is celebrated on November 22nd, and many composers wrote music in her honor. John Blow composed his ode Begin the Song! in 1684 and George Frideric Handel wrote his SONG FOR SAINT CECILIA’S DAY IN 1739. You enjoy selections from both of these musical tributes to the patron saint of music on Sunday Baroque this week.
Our friend Lauren Rico — yes, the wonderful classical host and author we featured on Sunday Baroque Conversations — wrote the script for the New York Philharmonic’s upcoming Young People’s Concert on November 22 at 2 PM. If you're in the NYC metro area, check it out!
11/20/2025
Well, it's not often we get to hear "new" baroque music!
Two new compositions written while Bach was a teenager were first discovered over 30 years ago and have now been fully authenticated.
11/16/2025
November 15th is America Recycles Day, a time to recognize the importance and impact of recycling. Baroque composers were masters of that idea, often recycling and reusing music.
This weekend, hear how they refashioned favorite melodies into something new and delightful. It’s all part of Sunday Baroque this week.
Our annual observance of Veteran’s Day on November 11th began as Armistice Day, marking the truce of World War I. It evolved into our current annual tribute to all American veterans who have served our country. You can hear some of Georg Philipp Telemann’s HEROIC MARCHES – and other music for heroes -- on Sunday Baroque this weekend.
Tickets are available now! Dates: Sep 18 - Jan 22 2026
11/02/2025
Sunday is a special day to ease up on the hectic pace, calm down a little, and smooth out a few of those rough edges. Even music lovers in the baroque era needed recreation now and then. So sit back and be soothed and uplifted by music that will help you relax on your day off, including RECREATIONAL French chamber music played by the Four Nations Ensemble. It’s on Sunday Baroque this weekend.
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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.
Thirty years ago I could never have imagined the path that has unfolded. So while this is technically my sentimental journey, I am profoundly aware that YOU are my treasured traveling companion.
Thank you for taking Sunday Baroque along with you!
