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Anna’s Baroque Bon Bons

Anna’s Baroque Bon Bons delves into the tales of the musicians, patrons, composers and instruments of the Baroque period. From the esteemed Handel having his life saved by his jacket button while duelling to the latest discoveries of Baroque scores in dusty attics. Each weekly Bon Bon is accompanied by a piece of Baroque music which ties in with the story.

Anna is a music teacher and freelance lecturer. She plays the harpsichord and has a fascination for all that is Baroque.

Weekly English South Africa TV & Film Anna Stoddard

511 Episodes

440 – 460

Anna's Baroque Bon Bons - 20 June 2017

"Burney’s prized book''. TRACK: Leclair: Anonymous: Star Vicino. ARTIST: The Margiono Quintet. PUBLISHER: Challenge Classics 2007.

20 Jun 2017 4 min

Anna's Baroque Bon Bons - 13 June 2017

"Who murdered Leclair?''. TRACK: Leclair: Allegro from the Violin Concerto in D minor. ARTIST: Fabio Biondi and Europa Galante. PUBLISHER: Leclair: Violin Concertos Glossa Music 2017.

13 Jun 2017 6 min

Anna's Baroque Bon Bons - 6 June 2017

“Jefferson’s lifelong passion’. TRACK: Jefferson and Liberty (Traditional). ARTIST: William Coulter: guitar and Deby Benton Grosjean: fiddle

6 Jun 2017 6 min

Anna's Baroque Bon Bons - 30 May 2017

“Jefferson’s lifelong passion’. TRACK: Jefferson and Liberty (Traditional). ARTIST: William Coulter: guitar and Deby Benton Grosjean: fiddle. PUBLISHER: Jefferson’s Fiddle Gourd Music 2010

30 May 2017 4 min

Anna's Baroque Bon Bons - 23 May 2017

"Mr Jansen and the sight reading". TRACK: “And with his stripes we are healed” from Handel’s Messiah. ARTIST: The Choir Of King's College Cambridge with the Brandenburg Consort under Stephen Cleobury. PUBLISHER: Brilliant Classics: Passions – Sacred Masterpieces

23 May 2017 3 min

Anna's Baroque Bon Bons - 16 May 2017

"Lamento Della Ninfa". TRACK: Monteverdi: Lamento Della Ninfa. ARTIST: L’Apreggiata. PUBLISHER: Monteverdi: Teatro d’amore, EMI 2009

16 May 2017 6 min

Anna's Baroque Bon Bons - 9 May 2017

"Unhinged by love". TRACK: Roseingrave’s Suite in E Flat Major - Presto. ARTIST: Paul Nicholson. PUBLISHER: Hyperion 1992

9 May 2017 3 min

Anna's Baroque Bon Bons - 2 May 2017

Queen Caroline, Turpentine and Handel. TRACK: We Praise thee, O God from the Queen Caroline Te Deum by Handel. ARTIST: Les Arts Florissants under William Christie. PUBLISHER: Les Arts Florissants 2014

2 May 2017 4 min

Anna's Baroque Bon Bons - 25 April 2017

Queen Mary’s Delusion. TRACK: “Vain all our life” by John Shepperd. ARTIST: Gabriel Crouch and the Gallicantus. PUBLISHER: Queen Mary’s Big Belly . Signum Records 2017.

25 Apr 2017 4 min

Anna's Baroque Bon Bons - 18 April 2017

A marriage of convenience. TRACK: “Sing Unto God’ from 'Wedding Anthem for Prince Frederick and Princess Augusta' ARTIST: King’s Consort with the New College Choir, Oxford under Robert King PUBLISHER: 1989 Handel: Music for Royal Occasions Hyperion

18 Apr 2017 5 min

Anna's Baroque Bon Bons - 11 April 2017

“Fiddler Tam”. TRACK: Thomas Erskine: Symphony in E Flat, also known as the Periodical Overture 1st Movement, Allegro. ARTIST: Hanover Band under Graham Lea-Cox. PUBLISHER: ASV “18th Century British Symphonies” 2001.

11 Apr 2017 5 min

Anna's Baroque Bon Bons - 4 April 2017

A Mysterious theme. TRACK: (1) Biber’s Sonata 15 (2) Rachmaninov in Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini. ARTIST: (1) Sirkka-Lisa and Battalia. (2) Philippe Entremont. with Eugene Ormandy conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra. PUBLISHER:(1) Ondine 2014 (2) 1958.

4 Apr 2017 8 min