Ottawa - Festival de Musique et autresmondes 2013

Karina Gauvin et Daniel Taylor avec le The Theatre Of Early Music Adrian Butterfield, chef Pergolesi - Stabat Mater Albinoni - Concerto no 2 pour hautbois en ré mineur Handel - Deux duo d’amour : Scherzano tiré de Rinaldo et lo t’abbraccio tiré de Rodelinda 6 juillet à 17h00 Église Dominion Chalmers 355 Cooper Street Ottawa

Musique et Café avec le Theatre of Early Music Adrian Butterfield, chef J.S. Bach : Cantate du café Ellen McAteer, soprano Michiel Schrey, ténor Alexander Dobson, baryton 7 juillet à 10h00 et 11h30 Bridgehead Roastery 130 Anderson St Ottawa K1R 6T7 Arrivez tôt puisque les places sont limitées !

Sonates d’église Mozart et Corelli Musiciens du Theatre of Early Music Adrian Butterfield, chef Chloe Meyers, violon Amanda Keesmaat, violoncelle Thomas Annand, orgue 8 juillet à 20h00 Église St. Barnabas 70 James Street (at Kent) Ottawa

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Concert Review:
Handel’s Anthems beautifully handled by skilled musicians
(Les Hymnes de couronnement de Handel interprétés majestueusement par des musiciens talentueux)
Richard Todd, The Ottawa Citizen, 10 décembre, 2012

Les Hymnes de couronnement de Handel
Theatre of Early Music et Schola Cantorum
Daniel Taylor, chef
Knox Presbyterian Church - 8 décembre, 2012

Handel’s four Coronation Anthems are not in any sense Christmas music, but they sound so celebratory that with different words they might pass readily as music of the season. They were the backbone of a concert given Saturday evening at Knox Presbyterian Church by Daniel Taylor’s Theatre of Early Music and a choir made up mainly of members of Toronto’s Schola Cantorum.

The all-Handel program began with the Overture to the Water Music played conductorless by the TEM’s superb baroque orchestra. The quality of the playing and idiomatic styling were to be the rule for the entire program. Although it’s unfair to everyone else, in a way, the beautiful oboe playing of Matthew Jennejohn and Geoffrey Burgess needs to be singled out.

The first of the Anthems was perhaps the most familiar, Zadok the Priest. After several measures of orchestral introduction, the chorus came in with a most impressive double-forte, especially remarkable for an ensemble of 25 voices. The singing that followed was uniformly excellent, boasting all of the core technical values including balance, blend, precision and intonation.

Next came How beautiful are the feet of them who preach the Gospel of peace from Messiah, nicely sung by soprano Agnes Zsigovics. Zsigovics is familiar to most followers of vocal music in these parts, and her rendition on Saturday did not disappoint.

Then there was the anthem The King Shall Rejoice sung by the chorus. Once again the performance was entirely apt and beautiful.

The second half of the program began with tenor Michiel Schrey singing an aria from Handel’s oratorio Israel in Egypt, The Enemy Said. Like Zsigovics, Schrey has sung here frequently and hasn’t even begun to wear out his welcome.

In fact, if you want a hint as to why the chorus was so good, you have only to look at its roster, which includes not only the likes of Schrey and Zsigovics, but also bass-baritone Alexander Dobson, whose rendition of The Trumpet Shall Sound was one of the evening’s highlights. His singing wasn’t all that made it special though, the fellow who sounded the baroque trumpet, Alexis Basque, was superb as well.

The final anthem, My Heart is Inditing, was the most elaborate of the four. In the first place it has four movements, making it the longest of them. Also, it is the only one to employ chorus and soloists. It integrates them well and made for an especially pleasing conclusion to the concert.

 

Le dernier disque du Theatre of Early Music!

Analekta ANA 29841 Novembre 2012

Ave Maria 1. Ave Maria Giulio Caccini (1551 - 1618) Alain Lefèvre [Piano] et Daniel Taylor 2. Ave Maria Franz Schubert (1797 - 1828) Daniel Taylor, Les Petits Chanteurs du Mont-Royal Theatre of Early Music 3. Ave Verum William Byrd (1543 - 1623) Choeur du Theatre of Early Music 4. Ave Maria Josquin Desprez (circa 1455 - 1521) Choeur du Theatre of Early Music 5. Ave generosa Hildegard von Bingen (1098 - 1179) Daniel Taylor et Amanda Keesmaat (violoncelle) 6. Magnificat Claudio Monteverdi (1567 - 1643) Les Petits Chanteurs du Mont-Royal Solo: André-Nicolas Chantal-Fortin 7. Ave Maria Jacques Arcadelt (1505 - 1568) Les Petits Chanteurs du Mont-Royal 8. Ave Maria Anton Bruckner (1824 - 1896) Les Petits Chanteurs du Mont-Royal 9. Magnificat Arvo Pärt (1935 - ) Les Petits Chanteurs du Mont-Royal Solo: Victor Guilhe la Combe de Villers 10. Ave Maria Charles Gounod (1818 - 1893) Daniel Taylor, Les Petits Chanteurs du Mont-Royal Theatre of Early Music Les Petits Chanteurs du Mont-Royal, Gilbert Patenaude, directeur Le Theatre of early Music: Daniel Taylor, directeur Luc Beauséjour, Orgue Amanda Keesmaat, Violoncelle Alain Lefèvre, Piano "In this latest release from Canadian label Analekta, Daniel performs a disc of "Ave Marias" written by Caccini, Schubert, Byrd, von Bingen, Monteverdi and others, so provides a definitive disc of this repertoire performed by a world class singer. " MKT - UK Pour plus d’information ou pour commander en ligne au Royaume-Uni : MDT - UK Pour écouter Ave Maria, commander un CD en ligne ou télécharger les fichiers en format mp3, cliquez ici : Commandez maintenant

 

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