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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…

Bernard Labadie conducts Mozart’s Requiem

By Justin Bernard on 4 April 2022 Baroque and Early, Classical, Orchestral

Les Violons du Roy can once again spread their wings as they please after more than 1½ months of a lockdown reinstatement and a few small-scale concerts at Bourgie Hall. Nicolas Altstaedt will be the guest artist in the Un violoncelle par-delà des frontières concert series on May 6 and 7. On May 26 and 28, Les Violons du Roy will join forces with I Musici de Montréal, under the baton of Jean-François Rivest. This concert will bring back collaborations with orchestras and musicians. Before these concerts take place, former conductor Bernard Labadie, whose triumphant return has long been expected,…

Jean Lesage: Modern-age composer-philosopher

By Justin Bernard on 9 March 2022 Baroque and Early, Contemporary, Interviews

The Société de musique contemporaine du Québec, as part of its series of portraits of composers, focused on Jean Lesage in a presentation scheduled for the Salle Pierre-Mercure last month (March 27). The composer’s world, at once musical and philosophical, is at the intersection of several arts, as he himself has claimed: “I believe a composer should be open to all the great trends which characterize an epoch’s culture. They need feelers to sense the signs of the time, the zeitgeist, whether it’s through philosophy, literature, painting or the visual arts.” Many stylistic influences Surrealism continues to feed Jean Lesage’s…

Amanda Keesmaat, violoncelle; Pierre-Alexandre Saint-Yves, flûtes, chalumeaux, cornemuse, voix; Patrick Graham, percussions; Seán Dagher, direction musicale, cistre, voix; Alex Kehler, violon, nyckelharpa.

La Nef: Styles and fields come together

By Justin Bernard on 12 January 2022 Baroque and Early, Contemporary, Folk, Interviews, Multimedia, World Music

La Nef is continuing its 30th anniversary celebrations under the general and artistic leadership of Claire Gignac. Though La Nef will present many concerts featuring various musical styles this season, it is currently being noted for its disc production at the start of a new year. On February 5, a concert will take the form of an album presentation, featuring Long Way Home by Andrew Wells-Oberegger, composer and multi-instrumentalist. Six musicians will join him at Montreal’s Maison de la culture Ahuntsic in the Concerts au bout du monde series. On March 10, another production will be led by Artistic Codirector…

George Frideric Handel: Messiah (Leaf Music, 2021)

By Justin Bernard on 13 December 2021 Baroque and Early, CD and Book Reviews, Chamber Music, Choral

George Frideric Handel: MessiahEnsemble Caprice, Ensemble Vocal Arts-Québec; Matthias Maute, conductor; Karina Gauvin, sopranoLeaf Music, 2021 The new recording by Ensemble Caprice jointly with the Ensemble vocal Arts-Québec, under the direction of Matthias Maute, was released on the Leaf Music label. A work by Jaap Nico Hamburger to start, one by Matthias Maute himself to conclude and, as a main course, several excerpts from Handel’s Messiah. The voice and voluptuous timbre of Karina Gauvin are first highlighted in Rejoice greatly, a piece full of lyricism and virtuosity. It is with these same assets that the singer then approaches I know…

New Releases – November 2021

By La Scena Musicale Team on 22 November 2021 Baroque and Early, Canadian Music, Chamber Music, Classical, Classical Music, Piano

Mystic Giorgia Fumanti, soprano Velenosi entertainment VEGA2CD-2942 Release: Aug. 20 Giorgia Fumanti has established herself as one of the top female classical crossover singers in the world, having performed in five continents and in some of the most prestigious and iconic venues. Fumanti’s 12th album, Mystic, is a follow-up to her No. 1 best-selling album Amour and her No. 3 best-selling album Aimons-Nous on Canada’s ADISQ charts. (Her albums have also appeared on Billboard’s Crossover Chart.) This collection includes classical hits by Ravel (Bolero), Verdi (“Va, Pensiero”), Puccini (“Nessun Dorma”), Orff (“O Fortuna”) Albinoni (Adagio), Piazzolla (Libertango), Gino Vannelli, Michel…

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