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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…

CD Review | James Oswald : Airs for the Seasons (Leaf music, 2023)

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

James Oswald : Airs for the Seasons Rezonance Baroque Ensemble Leaf Music, 2023 The new CD by the Toronto-based Rezonance Baroque Ensemble features Airs for the Seasons by Scottish composer James Oswald (1710-1769). The work in its entirety consists of two sets for a total of 96 sonatas in various movements (two to four). Each of the songs bears the name of a flower or shrub typical of that season, an extremely creative and rigorous idea. The structure of the work proposed in the disc (Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter) allows us to appreciate the succession of atmospheres and moods…

Isidore String Quartet

Festival Picks

By Eva Stone-Barney on 26 May 2023 Baroque and Early, Canadian Music, Chamber Music, Choral, Classical, Classical Music, Contemporary, Opera, Orchestral, Piano, Strings, Vocal

Author : (Eva Stone-Barney)

MONTREAL/QUEBEC Centre Culturel de Pointe-Claire In an effort to make cultural programming accessible to its residents, and breathe life into public park spaces, the Centre Culturel de Pointe-Claire will present a series of free concerts as part of their Summer Evenings in the Parks / Summer Beats in the Parks Festival. Running from June 28 to Aug. 16, the festival will consist of 10 concerts in parks across the city. Starting at Stewart Park on June 28, audiences are invited to a concert of world music titled Paul Kunigis: Yallah. Performances of blues, Latin jazz, world jazz, and Brazilian percussion…

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Newswire | Beautiful Miracles With Ensemble Scholastica & Lamia Yared!

By Newswire on 2 May 2023 Baroque and Early, Classical Music, Montreal, Newswire

Montréal, April 26, 2023 – Ensemble Scholastica is pleased to announce its upcoming concert interweaving musical cultures, Miragres fremosos, featuring virtuoso singer and oud player Lamia Yared. The concert will be held on Thursday, May 18 at 7:30 p.m. at the Notre Dame de Bon Secours Chapel. The program showcases songs and poetry from medieval Andalusia, where arts, architecture and many other fields were deeply influenced by Muslim culture in the early Middle Ages when these lands came under Muslim rule. Christian and Sephardic influences also continued to develop under Alphonse X “the Wise,” who reigned over the kingdoms of…

CD Review | Bright and early (Naïve Classiques, 2023)

By Zenith Wolfe on 29 March 2023 Baroque and Early, CD and Book Reviews, Strings

Bright and early Hopkinson Smith, lute Naïve Classiques, 2023 Hour-long solo lute album bright & early is a grounding experience. As the title suggests, its positive and peaceful tone is perfect for starting the day on a motivating note. The album interweaves works by 16th-century composers Joan Ambrosio Dalza and Francesco Spinacino, which require a good deal of interpretation on lutenist Hopkinson Smith’s part, given the incomplete or disfigured conditions of their original manuscripts. They’re pieces that share a gentle throughline, but their free-form nature gives the lutenist plenty of opportunities to portray that tone in his own image. The…

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