Candice Agree

19/12/2024

Written in the last decade of his life, Bach’s chorale preludes for organ mark the pinnacle of his sacred works for organ. Daniel Gauss, organist at the Bern Cathedral, plays the Gottlieb Leuw organ, built in 1729. Recorded live in concert June 11, 2019, as part of the series Evening Music at Bern...

12/12/2024

Bach wrote a set of keyboard variations to calm an ambassador with insomnia. If you fall asleep while listening to Baroque&Before with Candice Agree, you’re doing it right! Tonight 10 CT

Fazil Say interprets Johann Sebastian Bach’s Goldberg Variations, one of the essentials of the keyboard repertoire.

04/12/2024

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From Ukraine’s capital city of Kyiv, Liatoshynskyi Capella, the early music ensemble named for Ukrainian composer, conductor, and pedagogue Borys Liatoshynskyi, takes us to Italy, Malta, and Ukraine in a program of lamentations by composers from these three regions. Tonight’s program was recorde...

13/11/2024

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Peace, love, hope, salvation. Soprano Hana Blažíková joins Capella de la Torre for a program of early seventeenth-century Germany and Italy celebrating an age of miracles. Recorded live in concert July 24, 2024 in the Church of St Simon and St Jude as part of Prague’s Summer Festivities of Earl...

06/11/2024

: Tonight at 10CT on Baroque&Before with Candice Agree, Oltremontano Antwerp & Tiburtina Ensemble bring to life Hans Memling’s 15th-century altarpiece “God the Father with Angels Singing and Playing Instruments,“ recorded this past July at Prague’s Summer Early Music Festival.

Inspired by Hans Memling’s altarpiece for a Spanish nunnery, and using instruments built especially for this project, historical brass ensemble Oltremontano Antwerp and the female vocal ensemble Tiburtina join forces for a program focused on fifteenth-century monophonic chant and polyphonic pieces...

23/10/2024

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09/10/2024

I Fagiolini & lutanist Eligio Quinteiro explore laments, both sacred & secular, of Monteverdi tonight on Baroque&Before with Candice Agree. Join me: 10CT (5am CET) on WFMT

Lutanist Eligio Quinteiro joins British vocal ensemble I Fagiolini for a recital exploring the full spectrum of the Renaissance lament via the madrigals of Claudio Monteverdi. Tonight’s program was recorded live in concert April 29. 2024 in London’s Wigmore Hall. Thanks to WFMT’s association w...

07/10/2024

A front-row seat awaits you at the 22,120-seat open-air Waldbühne tonight at 10 Central on WFMT. I’m your host.

Situated in a wooded area just outside Berlin, the Waldbühne is one of Europe’s largest and most popular open-air concert venues.

07/10/2024

Farewell to the phenomenal Cissy Houston 🥀

Top 20 Pop and Top 5 Soul Hit for the Sweet Inspirations in the Spring of 1968.

06/10/2024

Hear the silken voice of The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center’s mezzo Sophia Maekawa and the magical touch of pianist Michael Banwarth tonight at 7CT on WFMT. I’m your host.

Our 2024/25 Ryan Opera Center Recital Series opens with a musical journey featuring second-year Ensemble members Japanese-American mezzo-soprano Sophia Maekawa and pianist Michael Banwarth.

03/10/2024

Published in London in 1739, Domenico Scarlatti’s Exercises for Harpsichord had an enormous impact on English composers, using it as a model for their own compositions. Harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani brings us a selection of Scarlatti’s keyboard sonatas, as well as works by Scarlatti’s English ...

02/10/2024

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The stations and ABC News won't lose any on-air talent in the latest round of cost reductions, which Disney management described as "surgical."

25/09/2024

Kyiv’s Liatoshynskyi Capella brings us 17th- & 18th-century lamentations from the 2023 Jordi Savall Festival. Join us tonight, 10CT (5a CET) for Baroque&Before with Candice Agree, celebrating 10 years on WFMT

From Ukraine’s capital city of Kyiv, Liatoshynskyi Capella. the early music ensemble named for Ukrainian composer, conductor, and pedagogue Borys Liatoshynskyi, takes us to Italy, Malta, and Ukraine in a program of lamentations by composers from these three regions. Tonight’s program was recorde...

21/09/2024

And on the 21rst day…

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18/09/2024

Handel had a very busy week in July of 1707, presenting 3 works in 4 days in Montesanto’s Church of Santa Maria. Václav Luks leads Hungarian Symphony Orchestra, Hungarian Radio Chorus & soloists in all 3 tonight 10 CT (5a CET) on Baroque&Before with Candice Agree on WFMT

In July 1707, three works by Handel were performed in the Church of Santa Maria in Montesanto in Rome: Nisi Dominus and Dixit Dominus on 16 July, and Salve Regina on 19 July. The influential Colonna family sponsored the concerts. These three works are among Handel’s outstanding sacred music output...