Sunday Baroque
Sundays from 8 a.m. to noon. on KNCJ
Sunday Baroque is a weekly radio program that showcases music composed in the baroque era (1600-1750) and the years leading up to it.
Sunday Baroque features music by a wide range of composers such as Johann Sebastian Bach, George Frideric Handel and Antonio Vivaldi, who were the “big names” of the baroque era, in addition to their many talented but less well-known contemporaries.
Like any art form, music is living and breathing, and Sunday Baroque presents performances on both historical and modern instruments to illustrate that evolution and provide contrast and texture.
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