This disc compiles material from several discs by the impressive French-Canadian soprano Suzie LeBlanc, some of them originally featuring music by various composers. If you're looking for a singer who will carom daringly around the corners of a showpiece Handel aria like Renée Fleming or Vivica Genaux, LeBlanc is not that performer; her voice is ...
Jean-Féry Rebel, a bit older than Rameau, is one of a collection of little-understood French composers of the early eighteenth century who churned out suites of orchestral dances for entertainment and stage productions at various levels of French aristocratic society. The suites here are of different lengths, determined by the extramusical program ...
While we may conceptually think of a symphony as a composition for a large number of musicians, such was not the case when Haydn, the so-called "Father of the Symphony," composed the majority of is 104 symphonies. Rather, his symphonies were composed for the smaller number of musicians (generally no more than two to a part) that were available to ...
This little disc emerging from Montreal's fertile historical-performance scene offers music unlike any other from the French Baroque or Classical periods most listeners will have heard before. Michel Corrette, a Parisian (and Rouen-born) organist and prolific composer, wrote works that might be called light music of the eighteenth century. The ...
The Montreal Baroque orchestra Arion has honed its skills and broadened its reach along with the rest of Montreal's vigorous early music scene, and it has attracted European soloists and conductors. Here the direction is by veteran Dutch gamba player Jaap ter Linden. He forges a rather cool but very finely detailed orchestral sound, with a really ...
Indefatigable early music specialist and virtuoso Monica Huggett serves as both guest conductor and concertmaster of the Canadian ensemble Arion in this recording of Baroque vocal music in honor of Mary. Huggett's exquisite sense of phrasing and musical drama brings these late Baroque Italian works, three of which are fairly obscure, to throbbing ...
This little disc of Telemann concertos from Dutch director Jaap ter Linden and a collection of French Canadian early music specialists should be enjoyable for anybody. From the vast field of Telemann concertos ter Linden extracts a group that naturally flow from one to another and illuminate each other. There is virtuosic writing, as in the ...
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