BACH'S LUNCH
Bach's Lunch is WMHT-FM's hour of Baroque and Early Music, which can be heard weekdays at 12n Eastern on WMHT-FM in New York State's Capital District on 89.1, and in the mid-Hudson River Valley on 88.7. You can also stream us online at wmht.org.
On today's show we're going to listen to a woman who began playing violin at the age of 2. She's a violinist that Grammophon Magazine has raved about, saying: "It is difficult to argue with such a technically dazzling and unfailingly musical interpretation."
She's on the way, but first ? from Magnatune.com, here's a Renaissance band known as Pantagruel.
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Pantagruel is an international Early Music ensemble specialising in semi-staged performances of Renaissance music. The group was formed in Essen, Germany at the end of 2002 by the English lutenist Mark Wheeler & the German born Dominik Schneider. With the arrival of the Scottish Soprano Hannah Morrison in 2004 the ensemble began to perform throughout Europe.
Named after Pantagruel, the hero of Francois Rabelais's 1532 Novel, they have adopted the books motto "do, what thou wilt" to describe their fresh approach to early music.
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The New York Times hailed her as a "high-powered artist;" The Strad called her "something of a phenomenon." Canadian born violinist Lara St. John burst on to the scene exuding sexuality, but despite that many people have been praising her simply by hearing. You can see more about her at larastjohn.com. Her new CD of Bach Concertos is available through Magnatune.com. Here is the Concerto No. 1 in A, BWV 1041 performed by Lara St. John with the New York Bach Ensemble on the Bach's Lunch Podcast from WMHT.org.
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Violinist Lara St. John on the Bach's Lunch Podcast from WMHT.org. To hear more programming like this, stream our station WMHT-FM at wmht.org. Bach's Lunch airs at 12n Eastern every weekday.
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Lara St. John's new Magnatune.com CD also features the Violin Sonata No. 1 in G minor and the wonderful Double Concerto. Let's hear that now. She's joined by her brother Scott on this Bach Concerto, BWV 1043. This is the Bach's Lunch Podcast.
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Amazingly talented, that's Lara St. John and her brother Scott with Bach's Double Concerto, BWV 1043. This is the Bach's Lunch Podcast from WMHT-FM, Schenectady ? New York.
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