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La Scena Tête-à-tête: Michael Spyres

By La Scena Musicale Team on 2 August 2022 Arts Industry, Baroque and Early, Classical Music, Contemporary, Interviews

In this Tête à tête segment, Don Adriano interviews Michael Spyres for La Scena Musicale during his passage through Montreal to sing at the Lanaudière festival in July 2022! On Youtube: Interview with Michael Spyres: During the interview, Adriano and Spyres discuss Rossini, operatic traditions, voice technique, the Baritenor voice and much more. The following is a sample of their discussion. How to sing like an opera performer As an internationally renowned baritenor opera singer, Michael Spyres has a lot to say on the topic of operatic singing. According to him, the body is not comfortable with operatic singing until…

CD Review | Virtuosa (Leaf music, 2022)

By Zenith Wolfe on 26 July 2022 Baroque and Early, CD and Book Reviews, Chamber Music

Virtuosa Alexa Raine-Wright, flute; Sallynee Amawat, violin; Andrea Stewart, violoncello; Rona Nadler, harpsichord Leaf Music, 2022 In 2017, Infusion Baroque released the Virtuosa Series, a collection of videos highlighting the musical careers of fourteen women from the 18th and 19th centuries. Still infused with the desire to emphasize female composers’ accomplishments in the face of sexism, Infusion Baroque have released their new album Virtuosa. The 14 works on the album, derived from a variety of composers, most of them women, display the ensemble’s tonal flexibility: in their performance of Clara Schumann’s Piano Trio in G Minor, Op. 17 they contrast…

Conductor and harpsichordist Luc Beauséjour (image from the Clavecin en Concert website)

Newswire | Clavecin en Concert Unveils 2022-23 Season

By Newswire on 8 June 2022 Baroque and Early, Classical Music, Newswire

Montreal, June 7, 2022 – Clavecin en concert is pleased to unveil the schedule for its 2022-2023 season as well as its guest artists. Through its concerts, Clavecin en concert promotes an appreciation of the repertoire of the Baroque period through harpsichord works, ensemble music and works for the voice. It offers a variety of concert programs for a wide audience. Hervé Niquet, founder and musical director of the Concert Spirituel, which has established itself internationally as one of the leading ensembles in the interpretation of Baroque music, will open the season with two concerts devoted to Marc-Antoine Charpentier (Quebec…

CD Review | iFugue: A World of Fugues (ODEG, 2022)

By Justin Bernard on 4 June 2022 Baroque and Early, CD and Book Reviews, Contemporary

iFugue: A World of Fugues Ensemble Vivant Opening Day Entertainment Group (ODEG), 2022 Do you know what fusion is? A mix of rock and jazz probably leaps to mind. But there is classical fusion, too. That is exactly what Ensemble Vivant deals with in this recording as it steps into the world of fugues with a selection of 15 pieces that come from both the baroque (Vivaldi, Bach) and more modern times (with the likes of Aldemaro Romero, Astor Piazzolla, Dimitri Shostakovich, Heitor Villa-Lobos and César Franck). Rounding out this 300-year sampling are three world premières by two Canadian composers:…

CD Review | Scarlatti: Essercizi Per Gravicembalo (Leaf music, 2022)

By Zenith Wolfe on 4 June 2022 Baroque and Early, CD and Book Reviews

Scarlatti: Essercizi Per Gravicembalo Hank Knox, harpsichord Leaf Music, 2022 The Scarlatti sonatas are known for their dramatic presentation: the physical crossing of one hand over another, the erratic octave jumps across the keyboard, and the appearance of improvisation that actually requires a lot of concentration and forethought to accomplish. Any musician would be hard-pressed to render audibly what is meant to be represented visually, especially with an instrument whose textural range is as limited as the harpsichord, but Knox manages to do this with ease. The album begins with sonatas that are pleasant and jovial despite their simplicity. These…

La Nef on the beach

La Nef: In Concert From Ocean To Ocean

By Arnaud G. Veydarier on 3 June 2022 Baroque and Early

Although concert performers generally break over summer, the coming weeks are fully booked for La Nef. The organization specializing in early, ancient and traditional music will cross the country, from Gaspésie to Vancouver Island, to present La traverse miraculeuse, Baratin d’marins, Sea Shanties, and more. Combing through a vast repertoire of traditional and folk songs from here and abroad, La Nef invites the public on a fascinating musical odyssey this summer, crossing the ages and genres with exceptional musicians who will be joined by, notably, the well-known vocal quartet 4 Charbonniers. Les Seigneuriales of Vaudreuil-Dorion Held within the historical universe…

Elinor Frey: Musician’s Heart, Cellist’s Soul

By Justin Bernard on 3 June 2022 Baroque and Early, Chamber Music

Cellist Elinor Frey lives and breathes music. So much so that this bold and industrious performer long ago stopped counting the hours she spent at fulfilling her childhood dreams. While classical musicians vie for secure postings in symphony orchestras, Frey is constantly on the move—be it on stage, in the classroom or in some academic library. Her activities on all those fronts enable her to pursue new projects all the time, some involving an element of risk. But it would be much riskier for her to just sit back, take it easy and ride on her successes. Just Out on…

Cover of The Isabel's season brochure

Newswire | The Isabel Announces 2022-23 Power of Live Season

By Newswire on 27 May 2022 Baroque and Early, Classical Music, Mainstream Jazz, World Music

Kingston, ON (May 26, 2022) – Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts (“the Isabel”) at Queen’s University announces its 2022/23 Power of Live season that includes 25 Isabel debuts with classical, jazz, global, Indigenous, indie, and children’s artists and creators. The season also features the Bader & Overton Canadian Piano Competition with collaborations with CBC and the Kingston Symphony, the Isabel Human Rights Arts Festival, and the new Art for All visual arts event led by Kingston’s Catie Allan. Details on programming are contained in the Isabel’s 2022 23 season brochure: https://www.queensu.ca/theisabel/sites/default/files/uploads/content/ISABEL%2022.23%20SEASON%20SM.pdf. Most programming also will be streamed with high-fidelity sound on the Isabel Digital Concert Hall. Gryphon Trio and Sistema…

EMV artists-in-residence David Greenberg (left) and David McGuinness (right) (image courtesy of the Vancouver Bach Festival website)

Newswire | Scottish Baroque Experts David McGuinness, David Greenberg to Perform at Vancouver Bach Festival

By Newswire on 24 May 2022 Baroque and Early, Classical Music, Newswire

Vancouver, BC (May 24, 2022) – Join us from July 26 through August 6 for 13 fabulous concerts and two special events featuring artists from across Canada, the US and the UK at the 2022 Vancouver Bach Festival – Scottish Baroque and Other Traditions. In addition to a traditional concert hall, performances will take place in diverse locations such as in a pub, a public garden, and a cathedral. It is well known that J.S. Bach employed instrumentalists for his church performances who often also played in taverns. We also know that the music for popular country dances such as the…

CD Review | Early Italian Cello Concertos (Analekta, 2022)

By Justin Bernard on 23 April 2022 Baroque and Early, CD and Book Reviews

Elinor Frey: Concertos italiens baroques Elinor Frey, violoncelle, Rosa Barocca; Claude Lapalme, chef AN 2 9163 Analekta, 2022 Just out on Montreal’s Analekta label are the results of a joint venture pairing cellist Elinor Frey with Calgary’s Ensemble Rosa Barocca under the direction of Claude Lapalme. The program consists of four concertos by Italian baroque composers Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741), Leonardo Leo (1694-1744) and Giovanni Battista Sammartini (1700-1775), and two by Giuseppe Tartini (1692-1770)—the first for cello, strings and continuo; the second, in two movements and written for violin, but performed here on a small-sized violoncello. Whatever instrument she uses, Frey…

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