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Bach and Buxtehude, 1705

By Benjamin Goron on 31 October 2018 Baroque and Early

In 1705, J.S. Bach trekked to the northern German city of Lübeck to meet Dietrich Buxtehude. This encounter, the only one between these two men, is a significant event in itself, if not a momentous one for the Baroque era. The latter was an organist basking in the limelight when the former was all of 20, his career still in the making. Call it a meeting of the minds, a rite of passage or a quest for truth: all conjectures are possible. All have been subject to some discussion at one time or another, more so in the last couple…

We Do Not Hear What They Heard – Tuning and Temperament Through the Ages (Part 1)

By Carol Xiong on 31 October 2018 Baroque and Early

The practice of using period instruments in Early Music has facilitated a general awareness of how Baroque pitch is about a semitone lower than modern pitch. Less commonly known are developments in temperament, tuning and pitch over the course of history. Their implications go beyond the concert experience. In many profound and surprising ways, they have influenced why composers wrote the music that they did. Definitions Tuning, temperament and pitch are not interchangeable. Pitch is the simplest to understand. It is the frequency at which sound waves move, when referred to in a musical context. Pitch can be measured in…

Isabel Bayrakdarian

Upcoming Concerts – Toronto

By Gregory Finney on 31 October 2018 Classical Music

Buffy Sainte-Marie at Koerner Hall As part of Koerner Hall’s 10th anniversary season, you can catch Canadian legend Buffy Sainte-Marie. As part of her “Quiet Please, There’s a Lady on Stage” series, the Cree singer/songwriter will perform music from her latest release, Medicine Songs, which is a collection of front line songs about unity and resistance. Featuring new music and classics, the Academy Award-winning songwriter takes the stage at 8 p.m. on Nov. 16. www.rcmusic.com Miroca Paris at Lula Lounge Known as a virtuoso percussionist and drummer, the Cape Verdean singer and multi-instrumentalist brings his unique guitar-driven sound to the…

Passion baroque – The Musical Language and Aesthetics of the Era

By Gilles Cantagrel on 31 October 2018 Baroque and Early

Following Heinrich Wölfflin of Switzerland, the Catalonian art critic Eugenio d’Ors situated the Baroque between the execution of Giordano Bruno in 1600 and the death of Johann Sebastian Bach in 1750. […] Since one of the general features of Baroque music is the use of basso continuo, it is natural to observe that the continuo appeared around 1600 only to disappear shortly after 1750. This century and a half is subdivided just as easily into three half-century periods – Early, Middle, and Late Baroque – a division that is much less arbitrary than it may seem at first glance. Three…

Autour de la flûte – Period Instruments Brought Up to Date

By Benjamin Goron on 31 October 2018 Baroque and Early

Since its foundation by flutist Mika Putterman in 2004, Autour de la flûte has presented 13 seasons of concerts, bringing together renowned musicians and ensembles such as Suzie LeBlanc, Susie Napper, Les Voix Humaines, Discantus, Notturna and La Petite Harmonie. Without specializing in an era or genre, Autour de la flûte offers a flexible setting for thematic concerts based on the use of period instruments and covering repertoire from the Renaissance to today. Putterman studied at McGill University, the National Conservatory of Music of Paris and the Royal Conservatory of Brussels. She is active in the early music scene, having…

Amanda Forsyth

Upcoming Concerts – Ottawa

By Richard Todd on 31 October 2018 Classical Music

Bach’s Magnificat As a kind of pre-holiday-season celebration, the Caelis Ensemble and Ottawa Baroque Consort under Matthew Larkin will present an all-Bach program highlighting the Magnificat in D. Caelis bills itself as Canada’s (and Ottawa’s) newest choir of child choristers and adults, presenting concerts and sacred music events in the cathedral tradition. Seven vocal soloists will be headlined by bass-baritone Philippe Sly. Among the other works on the program are the motet Singet dem Herrn and the Orchestral Suite No. 3 with its famous air. Southminster United Church, Nov. 14 at 7:30 p.m. www.ottawabaroque.ca National Arts Centre Orchestra One of…

Viennese Masterpieces on Stage : Mozart meets Beethoven at the Maison symphonique

By Benjamin Goron on 31 October 2018 Classical, Classical Music

By all appearances Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 5 and Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony are sharply contrasting if not utterly dissimilar works. The former, stemming from the Salzburg prodigy’s youthful years, is gracefully elegant in tone and style. Scored for a smaller orchestra, the piece is a wellspring of melodic ideas that often go undeveloped. The latter work, for its part, is a late opus of the German composer, the result of much thought, and soon recognized as a pinnacle in his artistic oeuvre. Far more ambitious in scope, it requires not only an unusually large instrumentation to fully realize its intention,…

Tribute to Krzysztof Penderecki and a Musical Celebration of Poland’s Independence

By Sébastien Daigle on 31 October 2018 Classical Music, Contemporary

On Nov. 11, 1918, at the end of the First World War, Poland became an independent state. To celebrate the centennial of this event, the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences in Canada and the Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in Montreal are presenting a Tribute to Penderecki concert, which also celebrates the 85th anniversary of the composer Krzysztof Penderecki. The featured work, Penderecki’s Resurrection Piano Concerto, was composed in response to the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. “It is a very powerful work, written in the spirit of the great concertos of the 20th century,” according to…

Concerto with a Touch of Jazz: Julie Lamontagne and the OSDL

By Benjamin Goron on 31 October 2018 Classical Music

After winning two Prix Félix and one Prix Opus and receiving her training in classical piano, Julie Lamontagne is now pursuing a career in jazz. As a composer and an arranger, she develops new approaches by mixing styles for which she has a fondness. Now What, an album produced in collaboration with New York-based saxophonist Donny McCaslin, and Noël, an anthology of holiday classics with a touch of energy and swing, are two of Lamontagne’s major projects. In the spirit of Christmas, Lamontagne will join the Orchestre symphonique de Longueuil on Dec. 6 in a classics meet jazz concert. “The…

Nicandro e Fileno: a Historical Recording

By Benjamin Goron on 30 October 2018 Baroque and Early, CD and Book Reviews

On the strength of last year’s production of Nicandro e Fileno by Le Nouvel Opéra and Les Boréades, ATMA Classics has now released this Italian pastoral opera, never issued on record before. Composed by Paolo Lorenzani to a libretto by Phillipe-Julien Mancini, Duke of Nevers, the opera was premiered in September 1681 at the Château de Fontainebleau, a retreat occasionally used by Louis XIV and his loyal subjects. For its time, the Italian style of the work was quite subversive. So much so that the king’s personal secretary Lully forbade its use. And if that weren’t enough, the subject matter…

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