Music of the Week

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Sara Morgan, country artist and songwriter from Arkansas, has a great way of packing irony with truth and depth. Her voice with country-style guitar is the ideal ins…

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It is 175 years since the grand master of piano music, Frédéric Chopin, died in Paris on October 17, 1849. Though he was only 39 years old when he died, he revolut…

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Jeremiah 29:11-14“For I know the plans I have for you,” says the Lord. “Plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope. Plans for good an…

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Found on Celia Farber’s Substack, we are offering this profound piece of music from Russia composed by late priest and songwriter Archdeacon Roman Tamberg and rece…

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What is really happening in North Carolina? Hurricane Helene took a very unusual path. Even days after the devastating event, reports are coming in of people being n…

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Jason Anick is a favorite among some of the Solari team who know and appreciate him personally as a generous mentor and teacher to young musicians and wonderful viol…

Gustav Mahler’s first symphony is, in our opinion, one of those compositions that should be heard in a live performance to appreciate its unique and sometimes sudden variations of tempo, instrument…

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Our Music of the Week comes as a suggestion from a subscriber, and what a beautiful recommendation it is. We are hearing the young musicians of Academy Baroque Soloi…

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Even though they dropped out in the Quarterfinals of Season 19 of America’s Got Talent, this South African band of three young siblings—Biko, Manna, and Mfundo�…

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Catherine is on her home turf in Tennessee this weekend, meeting and greeting with our special Solari subscribers from the area.

With this week’s music, we trav…

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The great Czech nationalist composer Antonín Leopold Dvořák (1841-1904) wrote his Carnival Overture as the second of three overtures that he conceived origina…

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In 1988, singer and songwriter Kelly Newton-Wordsworth from Western Australia gave her life to God and asked him to show her how to do his will. The first thing he d…

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Catherine is back in the United States (welcome home, Catherine!) and is taking to the road again on the great Financial Transaction Freedom tour.

She is going to…

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With Catherine speaking in Reykjavík, Iceland this weekend, today’s Friday music presents us with one of the most popular Icelandic folk songs that locals still sin…

Don’t we love the summer months, when we soak in as much sun and summer as we can to recharge our batteries of confidence, lightness, and resilience.

Our Music of the Week by French contempora…

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Our music this week is determined by Catherine’s visit to Lake Constance and the Bregenz Festival. Last night, after an afternoon “Meet & Greet” with European So…

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Four good-looking Italians with 10 virtuosic fingers each will make your nerve strings vibrate. Enjoy their live performance of a felicitous medley of two iconic bal…

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Anybody who understands these simple words in the Austrian-German dialect—“Heast as ned” or “Don’t you hear it?”—is immediately captivated. This is a g…

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Celebrating the great American day of independence on this 4th of July, 2024, we are choosing to honor the freedom of all peoples. We think of the sacrifices and her…

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Maria Callas was born in December 1923 to Greek immigrants in New York. The rest is history.

Maria Callas was, for many, the greatest opera singer and soprano of …

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This country and Christian music vocal duo was the real husband-and-wife duo, Joey and Rory Feek. The song they sing, friends and fans will attest, is a genuine expr…

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Austrian symphonic and religious composer Anton Bruckner (1824-1896) was one of the profound innovators of the classic symphony and a musical genius who, accordi…

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The Solari Team is celebrating and we are dedicating our Music of this week to two very special occasions. One of our core team members is being baptized this weeken…

Beautiful Katica Illényi is an outstanding Hungarian violin player, singer, and theremin player who graces our music selection for this week.

The theremin is a fascinating instrument that is …

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Seven weeks after Passover (Easter), it is the festival of Pentecost, also known as Whitsun—White Sunday—in the Anglican church. It is a highly significant holy …

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It is called “crossover” when an artist or music genre appeals to different types of audiences. Adele—deservedly acclaimed as one of today’s great vocalists—is…

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The Goldberg Variations by Johann Sebastian Bach are a pinnacle of music that almost all important pianists have tried to mount. The story goes, albeit regarded as q…

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Our music choice this week wants to put another spotlight on Tennessee singer-songwriter Jennifer Niceley, who we featured in January 2023. There is something quite …

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The war machine is churning again, crunching our assets, our loved ones, our precious time and attention, and our plans for the future. War is of great profit to Mr….

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This week, let’s enjoy some wonderful 1920s music rolling over hills of daffodils in April….

“April Showers” is a song from the 1921 musical Bombo, performe…

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Teenage Dutch singer Emma Kok floors the entire audience during André Rieu’s annual Maastricht concert in July 2023. The song she sings with such striking a…

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It is Good Friday, the day of the Passion of our Lord and a profound event for the Christian believer, for on this day the reversal of darkness into Light was initia…

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We have a particularly fascinating piece for our Music of the Week; both the composition and its delivery are unique and, leading up to Easter week, a profoundly fit…

Asked about the writing of this famous Beatles hit and our choice for Music of the Week, George Harrison said: “It seems as if winter in England goes on forever; by the time spring comes you re…

Jewel Kilcher and Dolly Parton, two superstars of American music, are both daughters of musical parents and singing families. Jewel stems from a Swiss immigrant family and grew up in Alaska. In a…

Rediscovered among the Haverlin/BMI Collection of hundreds of original and rare musical manuscripts and scores donated to the Harvard University Library in 1996, the Mass for Three Voices (Missa …

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There is a profound warmth and joy of life that oozes from traditional Greek rebetiko music. It almost inescapably brings movement and dance to the body. Zorba’s Dan…

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Xerxes was a grand Persian king (and Pharao of Egypt), probably best known to many as Ahasverus (a distorted pronunciation of the original Xšayār̥šā) from the&n…

Tracy Lee Lawrence is a Texas-born country music singer living in Tennessee. He has had numerous songs listed in Billboard’s “Hot Country Songs” charts, with several hitting number one. Law…

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“Óró, sé do bheatha abhaile” is a traditional Irish ballad. Its origins have been lost, but it goes back at least to the 18th century and before, when it was …

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“When I was inspired to write this music, I knew it had to be simple and I knew it had to speak of the great unknown.” ~ Tommy Emmanuel

Tommy Emmanuel is one …

Our Music of the Week is a song from one of Catherine’s favorite movies ever, the Swedish production As It Is in Heaven, a profound and touching film about the power of music. Life changes when…

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Freedom and water are two of the themes that matter most in current Solari commentaries.

Our Music of the Week is a classic of American gospel singing that goes b…

There are a number of compositions in musical history that were attributed to the wrong author. This famous “Ave Maria” is one of them.

Vladimir Fjodorovich Vavilov was not only an exceptional…

Let memories of 2023, and expectations for 2024 be cherished in the presence of those we love.

For auld lang syne, my dear
For auld lang syne
We’ll take a cup o’ kindness yet
For days of auld …

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“Silent Night” was born in Austria. It was one of those cultural miracles of human history that created an indelible impression on the minds and souls of innumerable Christians in Europe and,…

With Catherine traveling to Milan and Paris, we are offering Giuseppe Verdi’s musical contemplation of Mary Queen of Angels as this week’s Christmas music (presented here by Montserrat Caball…

Handel composed the Messiah, an English language oratorio, in 1741 within only 24 days! It is one of the most inspired works of our musical history. The composer concluded the manu…

December music at Solari is dedicated to celebrating Advent and Christmastide. “Advent” means the “arrival” or “coming” and is the time of inward preparation for the coming or the ret…

If you go on a shopping spree in the streets of Dublin these days, chances are that you can hear Allie Sherlock busking some of the great songs of our time.

Allie became a media sensation when…

Originally from Iceland, Kaleo is a rock band of four grade-school friends from a town near Reykjavik, who in 2015 moved to Austin, Texas and started to gain critical acclaim for their creative s…

Michael Sanchez and the Shadow Mountain Choir and Orchestra are performing one of the leading worship hymns to come out in recent years. Written by Andrew Peterson and Ben Shive, the song was fir…

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At the age of 28 and with only four albums released so far, Colter Wall is already a legend. There is something incredibly experienced and authentic in the young man…

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“It’s time to wake the women from the beauty sleep, the heart of Mother Earth is weeping.” ~ Yael Deckelbaum

Our Music of th…

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The Sanctus is a central part of the Christian eucharistic liturgy within all Christian denominations—Eastern, Orthodox, Catholic, Oriental, Ethiopian…. It deriv…

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Our Music of the Week revisits one of the choicest pieces of jazz that has ever seen the light of day, featured on Solari before. Catherine regards it as her favorit…

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All of Eva Cassidy’s (1963-1996) recognition as “one of the most unique, hypnotic, and powerful singers of all time” (producer William Ross) came posthumously. She w…

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My! Britain’s really got talent. Apart from being quite touching to watch his little boy running onto the stage being so proud of his father, this performance by 36-…

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I first heard the Pie Jesu from Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Requiem in 1985, soon after it premiered, on a radio show reviewing its first performance at St. Thomas Church …

Antonio Vivaldi’s Four Seasons—a collection of four violin concertos from 1725—do not need a special introduction, as they were and are some of the most famous pieces by the Italian composer …

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This coming week celebrates the beginning of a New Year according to the Jewish liturgical calendar. In all traditions around the world—from Nowruz of Zoroastriani…

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Last week in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City convened for its yearly Symposium. It was the 46th year of the annual forum, and its topi…

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When Catherine travels, she has a wonderful habit of weaving cultural highlights into her itinerary. No work trip with…

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We love the summer months. Let’s soak in as much sun and summer as we can to recharge our batteries of confidence, warmth, and resilience.

What better music than …

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Here is one of those love songs that simply couldn’t have been done better—manifesting the sacred surrender and total transformation of perception that being in lo…

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Irish singer Sinéad O’Connor died of unknown causes at the age of 56.

For our Music of the Week, we chose a song from her lesser-known studio album Universal Mot…

“The best-selling piano recording in history…” is nothing less than the famous 1975 Köln Concert by American jazz pianist Keith Jarrett. Jarrett was a child prodigy who possessed perfect pitch and…