Francesca Caccini, Isabella Leonarda, Barbara Strozzi, and Elizabeth Claude Jacquet de la Guerre – courtesans and courtiers, nuns and entrepreneurs – these women were all composers who lived during the 17th and 18th centuries. Their music will be featured in a special program airing March 8 on WHRO FM: A Woman’s World: Women Composers of the Baroque. Pegasus Early Music, a Rochester, NY, based ensemble, presents a concert of vocal and instrumental music about love, heroism and beauty. The program includes Caccini’s Ch’amor sia nudo, a song about the sweet sufferings of love; a chamber sonata by Isabella Leonarda; and Elizabeth Claude Jacquet de la Guerre’s cantata Le Sommeil d’Ulisse (The Sleep of Ulysses), a secular cantata about the hero Ulysses, who angered the god Neptune, and was aided by the goddess Minerva during his adventures. WXXI’s Mona Seghatoleslami hosts this special hour of music by women composers from the 17th and 18th centuries, in celebration of Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day. Tune in Monday, March 8 at 9 p.m. on WHRO FM.

You can also listen online. 

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