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CD Review | Concerto Antico: à travers un miroir fumé (Leaf Music, 2023)

By Zenith Wolfe on 6 October 2023 Baroque and Early, CD and Book Reviews, Classical, Orchestral, Romantic

Concerto Antico: à travers un miroir fumé Jaap Nico Hamburger, composer; Orchestre classique de Montréal; Ensemble Caprice Leaf Music, April 2023 Jaap Nico Hamburger brilliantly explores centuries of musical history in a powerful 11 minutes on Concerto Antico. Hamburger suggests in the album’s booklet that just as Nostradamus “stared into a smoke covered mirror to look at the future,” Hamburger himself is “star(ing) into the mirror of our times to look at the past.” Split into five concise tracks, Concerto Antico addresses modern, romantic, baroque, and classical eras through a variety of styles. An airy flute conjures the image of…

Concert Review | Toronto Mendelssohn Choir’s splendid modernization of baroque music

By Kristen Whittle on 27 September 2023 Baroque and Early, CD and Book Reviews, Concert Reviews, Contemporary, Dance, Toronto

The Toronto Mendelssohn Choir opened their 2023/24 season with “In Time,” a program that combined baroque music and contemporary dance. The choir collaborated with dancers from Compagnie de la Citadelle to create an amalgamation of old and new that was both captivating and eye-catching. Dance was incorporated into Bach’s Christ lag in Todesbanden (Christ lays in the snares of Death) and Handel’s Dixit Dominus. Considering the popularity of dance in the baroque period, it is not surprising that this music would be well-suited to accompanying dance. The Bach featured a solo dancer that acted out the German text in a…

Davóne Tines, Photo by Noah Morrison

Fall Highlights: Orchestras, Chamber, Solo

By Eva Stone-Barney on 1 September 2023 Art Song, Baroque and Early, Canadian Music, Chamber Music, Classical, Classical Music, Montreal

Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal (OSM) Led by conductor Rafael Payare, the OSM celebrates the orchestra’s 90th anniversary this season, along with the 10th anniversary of the Grand Orgue Pierre-Béique. The orchestra will start the year with an electric performance of Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring (Sept. 12-14). Payare and OSM concertmaster Andrew Wan will later take the stage to interpret Beethoven’s Violin Concerto. Webern’s Passacaglia, and Mozart’s “Haffner’’ Symphony (Oct. 25, 26). Come November, Christoph Eschenbach will conduct Alban Berg’s Concerto “To the Memory of an Angel” and Beethoven’s Symphony No.7 (Nov. 8, 9). The orchestra will get in the…

CD Review | Tendres Échos (Atma Classique, 2023)

By Kristen Whittle on 1 September 2023 Baroque and Early, CD and Book Reviews

Tendres Échos Anne Thivierge, flute; Mélisande Corriveau, viola da gamba; Eric Milnes, harpsichord Atma Classique, August 2023 In this collection of French baroque flute works, baroque flute specialist Anne Thivierge, multi-instrumentalist Mélisande Corriveau (here playing viola da gamba), and harpsichordist Eric Milnes join forces to present canonical French baroque flute pieces, using historically informed performance techniques and instruments. Thivierge’s tone is sweet and fluid; she expertly showcases the difference between the 17th-century German flute and the Boehm model used beginning in the Romantic era. Her musicality and inflection is extremely well-suited to the dance styles of many of the sonata’s…

Vincent Lauzer (Photo by Julien Faugère)

La Nef: The 2023-24 Season

By Alexandre Amat on 1 September 2023 Baroque and Early, Canadian Music, Classical Music, Montreal, Quebec Music

Claire Gignac, artistic and general director of La Nef, says that its repertoire is defined by “a mosaic of musical colours,” the result “of all sorts of artists, disciplines, types of music, repertoires and resonances coming together.” The 2023-24 season will offer four engaging concerts reflecting this range of musical approaches. To open the new season Oct. 18 at Centre St-Jax, the show Tant que vivray will feature Vincent Lauzer on recorder and Sylvain Bergeron on lute. Dedicated to baroque music, the concert will present an instrumental repertoire from France, Spain and England from the 16th and 17th centuries. Soprano…

CD Review | Il ponte di Leonardo (Glossa, 2023)

By Hassan Laghcha on 1 September 2023 Baroque and Early, CD and Book Reviews

Il ponte di Leonardo Constantinople; Marco Beasley, tenor; Kiya Tabassian, sitar, voice, artistic director Glossa, 2023 This album presents a musical encounter between Kiya Tabassian (artistic direction, sitar and voice), and the virtuoso soloists of his Constantinople ensemble, joined by tenor Marco Beasley, a leading specialist in Renaissance music. Released in May 2023 by Glossa, it is a concert recording that has seen much success thus far. The various parts of this concert are inspired by manuscript musical works from the 16th and 17th centuries held in the libraries of Florence and Istanbul. On the program are selections from the…

2023 Glimmerglass Festival production of Candide: (L to R) Bradley Dean, Jonathan Pierce Rhodes, Brian Vu, Katrina Gulka, and Meredith Arwady with members of the Ensemble. Photo credit: Evan Zimmerman/The Glimmerglass Festival.

Fated Couples Face the Music at Glimmerglass 2023

By Charles Geyer on 16 August 2023 Baroque and Early, Classical, Classical Music, Musical Theatre, Opera, Theatre, Vocal

REVIEW: of the Glimmerglass 2023 Season, including: Roméo et Juliette, the 1867 opera composed by Charles Gounod, with a libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré adapting Shakespeare; viewed August 4, 2023; Candide, with a musical score by Leonard Bernstein and book and lyrics by an assortment of heavy-hitters; viewed August 5, 2023; and Rinaldo, composed by George Frideric Handel, with a libretto by Giacomo Rossi; viewed August 6, 2023. Passing the Baton… The Glimmerglass Festival, with the arcadian charm of its lakeside setting and the surrounding splendor of its central New York “Leatherstocking Region” setting – not to mention…

CD Review | Baroque Arias from Europe (ALEA III, 2023)

By Justin Bernard on 31 July 2023 Baroque and Early, CD and Book Reviews

Baroque Arias from Europe Thalia Moutopoulou, soprano; Michel Cardin, theorbo; Chrysostomos Kalogridakis, tenor and guitar ALEA III, 2023 This album, the result of a collaboration between soprano Thalia Moutopoulou and theorbo player Michel Cardin, was born during the annual ALEA III Summer Encounter, which took place, as always, on the Greek island of Naxos. Along with guitarist and tenor Chrysostomos Kalogridakis, the duo offers baroque arias from Italy, France and England, via Bohemia, represented by Johann Heinrich Schmelzer. The selected repertoire features subtle, refined accompaniment. Cardin expertly brings resonance and colour out of the music to create a charming, intimate…

Matylda Adamus. Photo: Lukasz Zyska

Newswire | Early Music Vancouver Announces Winners of Emerging Early Music Artist Competition

By Newswire on 1 June 2023 Baroque and Early, Classical Music, Music Competition, Newswire, Vancouver

(Vancouver, B.C.) – Early Music Vancouver (EMV) announced today the winners of its competition for emerging (age 30 and under) early music artists. Applicants were asked to create a short (3-5 minute) musical video based on what they thought the next generation of early music might look like and to include creative ways to present early music with a focus on issues that are important to them. The competition, which ran from Monday, May 1st to Monday, May 15th, attracted 18 video submissions from young artists across Europe and North America. “It’s been fascinating seeing what young artists have created based on the…

CD Review | Bruce Liu/Bach: French Suite No. 5 (Deutsche Grammophon, 2023)

By Pietro Freiburger on 29 May 2023 Baroque and Early, CD and Book Reviews, Classical Music, Piano

Bruce Liu/Bach: French Suite No. 5, BWV 816 Bruce Liu, piano Deutsche Grammophon, 2023 The new album by Bruce Liu, winner of the last Chopin Competition in Warsaw and former student of the Université de Montréal, revolves around Bach. Specifically, French Suite No. 5 in G major. In general, the interpretation is balanced and expressive; the listener will appreciate Liu’s best quality: his sound, always rich and warm. Nevertheless, what is sometimes missing is greater sharpness, both in touch and in the choice of tempi. The Allemande, which opens the Suite, showcases Liu’s cantabile, touching and intimate, as well as…

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