"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.
10/10/2025
Canada celebrates its annual THANKSGIVING holiday on the second Monday in October. We can all be thankful for the many outstanding Canadian musicians and musical ensembles – there are even several groups that are specifically dedicated to playing baroque and early music. So this Sunday, on the eve of Canada’s National Holiday, you’ll hear some brilliant performances by Tafelmusik, Infusion Baroque, and Ensemble Caprice. It’s on Sunday Baroque.
An exquisite instrument lives on in the hands of Canadian violinist Timothy Chooi!
Canadian violinist has been awarded the use of the 1714 "Dolphin" Stradivari violin, loaned to him earlier this month by the Tokyo-based Nippon Music Foundation. "It is with great honor and gratitude that I receive the loan of the Stradivarius 1714 ‘Dolphin,’ one of the most celebrated violins i...
10/08/2025
An exciting concert opportunity!
New Yorkers! I hope you can join us for a live performance of all of the music from Complicité at the Kaufman Music Center on October 21. It’s an all Bach program, including Cantata 170 with Jennifer Johnson Cano, Mezzo Soprano and In the Air, Philip Lasser’s gorgeous reimagining of Bach’s Air on the G String. We will be joined by the extraordinary Katherine Needleman on oboe d’amore. Baroklyn and I are looking forward to this beautiful night! Photo by Grayson Dantzic Photography
Printed score and keyboard manuscript by Purcell, who died in 1695, unearthed in Worcestershire and Norfolk
10/05/2025
October 5th is the annual observance of World Teachers Day!! The celebration of the contributions and influences of teachers is the perfect opportunity to listen to music by baroque era composers who were also influential teachers, and the talented students they inspired. It’s on Sunday Baroque this week.
Even Bach couldn’t resist writing an ode to his favorite brew. Enjoy Apollo's Fire Baroque Orchestra’s lively performance of his Coffee Cantata — equal parts music, comedy, and caffeine.
J.S. BACH (1685-1750): Coffee Cantata , BWV 211Part 1 of 3APOLLO'S FIRE - A Multi-Generational Concert (Young Artist Apprentices in collaboration with gues...
09/28/2025
French pianist Helene Grimaud has a condition called synesthesia – which means that some of her senses overlap. Numbers and certain musical pitches or keys correspond in her brain with COLORS. You can hear Helene Grimaud playing from the richly-colored palette of Johann Sebastian Bach on Sunday Baroque this week. https://sundaybaroque.org/playlist-2025-09-28/
09/21/2025
09/21/2025
September 21st is INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PEACE! The United Nations marks the occasion annually to focus on efforts to end conflict and promote peace. Sunday Baroque will highlight the INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PEACE with peaceful music, including selections from a baroque opera composed in honor of a peace treaty ending the War of Austrian Succession. It’s on Sunday Baroque this week.
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.
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,
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.
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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!
