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Ensemble Scholastica

Ensemble Scholastica Invites Montrealers to Discover Our City’s Hidden Medieval Treasures!

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Montréal, October 21, 2024 – Ensemble Scholastica is pleased to announce its upcoming concert McGill’s Special Collections. The concert offers its audience the chance to discover Montréal’s hidden medieval treasures and will be held on Sunday, November 10 at 7:30 p.m. at the Notre Dame de Bon Secours Chapel. Musical notation was first elaborated in Europe during the early Middle Ages. It continued to develop throughout the period to reflect the increasingly sophisticated musical tastes and skills of medieval musicians, composers, and scribes. Their legacy to the modern world is both a universal method of notating music and an immense collection of manuscripts that provide a record…

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Alkemia Ensemble. Les Idées Heureuses.
Photo: Grégoire Mabit

Les Idées Heureuses | In the Name of the Rose: Traditional Songs and Medieval Chants

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October 2024

More than 30 years ago, in a small apartment located in the heart of Montreal’s iconic bohemian quarter, the Plateau-Mont-Royal, three young musicians gathered around a spinet (i.e. a small harpsichord) and an ice cream to rehearse a piece by M.-A. Charpentier (1643–1704). The fortuitous meeting of Dorothéa Ventura and Jean-François Daignault within this small group sparked a friendship and collaboration that would leave an indelible mark on the Canadian and Quebec early-music scene. Co-founders of the Alkemia Ensemble with vocalist Ghislaine Deschambault in 2002, Ventura and Daignault have since worked on numerous projects amid several Baroque and early music…

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La Route des concerts: Paving the Way for Regional Presenters

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By on Baroque and Early, Interviews, La Scena Spotlight
October 2024

Established in 2022, La Route des concerts continues to expand. It now welcomes an increasing number of partners into its network of concert halls across the province and has caught the eye of established musical institutions. Chantal Boulanger, organist and project co-ordinator, admits being surprised by this inexhaustible resource. “We have come to realize that there are many small classical music presenters who are unknown,”she says. “I’m still discovering them, even after working in the field for a long time. By bringing them together, we provide more visibility. “Shortly after we started in Estrie, Laurentides, Beauce-Appalaches, Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean, and Côte-Nord have…

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Toronto Consort: Ensemble Members & Scholars
Toronto Consort: Ensemble Members & Scholars. Photo: Aleksandar Antonijevic

Toronto Consort Appoints Dame Emma Kirkby as First-Ever Honorary Patron and Daniel Taylor O.C. as new Artistic and General Director

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By on Baroque and Early, Newswire, Toronto

Toronto, ON, September 25, 2024 – Heather Turnbull, President of the Board, The Toronto Consort, today announced the appointment of Daniel Taylor, O.C. as the company’s new General and Artistic Director, Dame Emma Kirkby as the Consort’s first-ever Honorary Patron, and the launch of the Consort’s 2024-2025 Season: BLESSED LIGHT – BLESSED ECHO. The Consort’s five-concert season kicks off on October 11. Visit TorontoConsort.org for more details. “This is an extraordinary moment in the history of The Toronto Consort,” said Turnbull. “Daniel Taylor is a beloved Canadian singer, a leading figure in the field of opera and early music, and noted…

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La Nef: Riding Local and International Seas

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By on Baroque and Early, Musique populaire, Vocal
September 2024

Mixing old and new repertoires has always been part of La Nef. Their 2024-25 season is another dazzling demonstration of this, with four concerts equally inspired by the exploration and meeting of cultures. Claire Gignac, co-founder of La Nef, offers a preview of the key elements of the season. To open, flutist Vincent Lauzer and percussionist Ziya Tabassian present an exceptional musical fusion project entitled Pulsations. On the evening of Oct. 9, medieval, baroque, jazz, Persian and Japanese music will freely inspire the two musicians. “Vincent is one of the members of our artistic committee, so I approached him first…

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William Christie: Uniting Generations with The Fairy Queen

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By on Baroque and Early, Dance, Orchestral, Toronto
June / July 2024

In the summer of 2022 William Christie appeared at Canada’s Festival de Lanaudière with his orchestra, Les Arts Florissants, and proteges of his youth academy, Le Jardin des voix. Bolstered by the success of those performances of Handel’s L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato, he won over audiences at the Quebec festival once again in 2023, with the same composer’s comic opera, Partenope. This summer, Christie is back again, this time with a production of Henry Purcell’s The Fairy Queen, with performances at the Toronto Summer Music Festival on July 11 and two days later, back at the Festival de…

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Lully Armide

CD Review | Lully Armide, Château de Versailles Spectacles, 2023

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By on Baroque and Early, CD and Book Reviews, Classical Music, Opera, Vocal
June / July 2024

Lully – Armide Stéphanie d’Oustrac, Cyril Auvity, Tomislav Lavoie, Marie Perbost, Eva Zaïcik, Timothée Varon, David Tricou, Virgile Ancely, Anouk Defontenay and Jeanne Lefort; Le Poème Harmonique, Chœur de l’Opéra de Dijon; Vincent Dumestre, music director Château de Versailles Spectacles, 2023 Recorded in May 2023 at Versailles’s Royal Opera, Jean-Baptiste Lully’s Armide here receives a royal treatment in every sense of the word. Le Poème Harmonique, directed by its founder Vincent Dumestre, showcases its expertise in the 17th- and 18th-century repertoire thanks to an interpretation full of the bounding energy which characterizes French music. Each section of instruments seems to…

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CD Review | Bergeron & Milatz, Bravura, Atma Classique, 2024

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By on Baroque and Early, CD and Book Reviews, Chamber Music, Classical Music
June / July 2024

Bravura: oeuvres pour cor naturel et pianoforte Louis-Pierre Bergeron, horn; Meagan Milatz, piano Atma Classique, 2024 Horn player Louis-Pierre Bergeron and pianist Meagan Milatz mark historic landmarks in their debut album, Bravura, works for natural horn and piano, produced by Atma Classique. In addition to premiere recordings of selected works by Vincenzo Rhigini and Franz Xaver Süssmayr as well as Cipriani Potter’s Sonata di bravura on historic instruments, the album is the first solo recording of a period brass instrument in Canada.  Performing on reproductions of classical horns and a Viennese fortepiano, the duo’s tasteful and elegant musicianship is apparent…

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Douglas Williams Meghan Lindsay Opera Atelier All is Love
Douglas Williams (Golaud) & Meghan Lindsay (Mélisande) in Opera Atelier's All is Love. Photo: Bruce Zinger

Concert Review | Beautiful parts fail to add up to a dramatic whole in Opera Atelier All is Love

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By on Baroque and Early, Classical Music, Concert Reviews, La Scena Online, Opera, Région, Toronto, Vocal

All is Love, the new Opera Atelier production is a heterogeneous mix of numbers that impress individually but fail to add up to a dramatically satisfying whole.

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