Toronto Early Music Centre
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Toronto Early Music Centre
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Toronto Early Music Centre is a registered charity founded 1984 to support and promote an interest in historical performance, “early music,” and the activities of musicians, singers, teachers, makers/builders of historical instruments (Toronto, Ontario)
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#FrançoisCouperin #LesNations
Daccapo Italian #HarpsichordDuo
Luigi Accordo & Enrico Bissolo
Details:
www.discogs.com/release/1456...

Listen:
music.youtube.com/playlist?lis... (1h 14m)
“[...] the complete book of trios... can be played on two harpsichords, as well as on any other instrument."
#HistoricalPerformance at SFCM
#SanFrancisco ConservatoryofMusic
www.sfcm.edu/study/majors...
Bachelor’s #harpsichord & Master's degrees hpscd, baroque vl/ vla/ vcl, #violadagamba, as well as a 1-yr HistPerf professional studies certificate (PSC) in kind, baroque str, #historical plucked str, & v.
www.cantemus.ca #Tudor motets&carols Advent&Christmas wks comp during reign #HenryVIII by #Taverner #Tallis; later #Elizabethan wks #Byrd Tallis #NicholasLudford
-Ch of the HolyTrinity, 10 TrinitySq SAT Nov22 7:30
-StAidans QueenStE at SilverBirch SUN Nov23 3:00

416-578-6602 
[email protected]
Carlo #Gesualdo's #Responsories for HolyWeek are reimagined through performance by ‪@LesArtsFlorissants‬, chor by AmalaDianor&co
youtu.be/JvdSQuZRxjQ (4:37) 6 singers from LAF + 4 dancers from CompagnieAmalaDianor unique stage creation

Part of #DanceUmbrellaFestival #DUFest25 : danceumbrella.co.uk
Re-imagining Carlo Gesualdo's music through dance | Interview with Amala Dianor
YouTube video by Dance Umbrella
youtu.be
Friends of Music presents #LuteLegendsCollective 
Sat Nov 1 at 4:00
StThomas's, 383 HuronSt
TORONTO

WenZhao #pipa
LucasHarris #lute
RonnieMalley #oud
www.eventbrite.ca/e/lute-legen... pay-what-you-wish [email protected]
ancient China, European Renaissance, Arabic maqam traditions
Manuel #Cardoso
"Sitivit anima mea"
BYRD ENSEMBLE dir MarkdavinObenza
vs from Ps 42&55

RuthSchauble s
MargaretObenza
ChristinaSiemens
JaneLong
SarraSharifDoyle a
JoshuaHaberman
OrrinDoyle t
SamFaustine
KevinWyattStone b
Ben Merrill
youtu.be/3BVN9mYMrp8?... (4:06) Aug 2021 StJamesCathedral Seattle
Manuel Cardoso - Sitivit anima mea
YouTube video by Byrd Ensemble
youtu.be
Today marks the 340th anniversary of the birth of the #harpsichordist & #baroque composer, Giuseppe Domenico #Scarlatti #Napoli #Italia #BaroqueComposers [thank you Nikolaus Mella @nikolausmella]

Portrait: Domingo Antonio Velasco, 1738. Collection: Casa-Museu dos Patudos, Alpiarça, #Portugal.
from #Passamezzo
#marginalmusicians playing the lute and singing fr ptbks... FateLachesis measures out thread of their lives...at top viol lute organ... w 7 wind inst
Cipriano de Rore
"Da pacem Domine"1559
www.cpdl.org/wiki/index.p...
Choir of QueensCollegeOxford
/OwenRees
youtu.be/8DRpuTkdpZ8?...
Vivaldi’s “Per lacerarlo” Act III aria fr opera Teuzzone RV 736 (Mantua 1719) @ChrisALowrey + #VoicesOfMusic Harmonic Labyrinth concert, Dec2019
youtu.be/QyUc-fVs0_0 #(3:01) #opera #countertenor #Vivaldi
"Lo melhor de ieu"
Dario #Castello (1602-1631)
Sonata 17 in eco
Les #Sacqueboutiers:
Enrico Gatti, François Fernandez, Violons
Jean-Pierre Canihac, Philippe Matharel, Cornets,
Antoine Ladrette, Cello
Eugène Ferré, Théorbe
Jan Willem Jansen, Orgue

youtu.be/qdfderEcRoY?... (7:10)
#Diapente #Renaissance #VocalQuintet at #RoyalOntarioMuseum TORONTO on WedOct 29 & ThursOct 30 at 7pm ROMSpeaks prog www.rom.on.ca/whats-on/spe...
themes&subjects of "Saints Sinners Lovers &Fools: 300 Years of #Flemish Masterworks"... w music of NoéFaignient & contemp HubertWaelrant+AndreasPervenage
#BlueHeron Look inside #CodexManesse - digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/cpg84... - beautifully-illum.14thC tome, w 137 full-page color illustrations of singers... nearly 10”x14” w 426 folios...one of the premiere extant sources of #Minnesang from 12th-14thC and can be classified as Liederhandschrift
Heidelberg, Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg, Cod. Pal. germ. 848 Große Heidelberger Liederhandschrift (Codex Manesse) (Zürich, ca. 1300 bis ca. 1340)
digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de
Messa sopra Je le lerray: #Gloria (anon)
B-Bc 27766, The Biffoli-Sostegni ms
youtu.be/8LbAS_4Fr9w 3:31

#MusicaSecreta dir LaurieStras
musicasecreta.org/support-us
Film/audio by ViddaLeFeber
Ensemble dir by ClaireWilliams
filmed at #StMaryMagdalenOxford

YouTube Channel
youtube.com/@musicasecre...
Messa sopra Je le lerray: Gloria
YouTube video by MusicaSecreta
youtu.be
O God give ear #Byrd youtu.be/ftNK27Da0eU (4:03)

Byrd1588: PsalmesSonets&Songs of Sadnes&Pietie - #Alamire #Fretwork #DavidSkinner
www.prestomusic.com/classical/pr...

YoungWomanPraying in Church-JulesBreton 1827-1906
YoungWoman at Prayer-VasilySurikov 1848-1916
In Prayer- FelixSchuring 1852-1907
EnchantedBaroque:
MagickMyths&Music
SatOct25 7pm
StOlaves 360 Windermere Ave

SunOct26 4pm
StDavids 49Donlands

musicalworld of fairies, vampires, deities&demons
#Purcell’s FairyQueen&KingArthur #Cavalli’s Rosinda #Eccles’s Aire fr MadLover, William #Hayes ThirstyVampires
linktr.ee/EnchantedBar...
ColinAinsworth as Tamino with the ThreeLadies: CarlaHuhtanen, DanielleMacmillan LauraPudwell #OperaAtelier Mozart's The #MagicFlute (photo Bruce Zinger)

Join Tamino&Papageno's quest to rescue Pamina fr QueenOfTheNight
Oct 18 7:30
Oct 19 2:30
#ElginTheatreTORONTO
www.ticketmaster.ca/opera-atelie...
Nov 12 to 15
London International #Festival of #EarlyMusic #LIFEM
www.lifem.org
at Blackheath Halls, London
performances, workshops, makers’ exhibition, recorders, lutes, musettes/bagpipes, viols
#Telemann 1681-1767
Concerto Gmaj #viola str&b.c.TWV 51:9
www.bremer-barockorchester.de
#Viola solo TomoeBadiarova
vl 1 StéphaniePaulet MeelisOrgse AndreaVassalle
vl 2 LuisPinzón ValeriaCaponetto
vla BenjaminLescoat
vcl NéstorCortés
b FelixGörg
bc Hugo deRodas NadineRemmert
youtu.be/WX4W-SD8Qdk
#Vivaldi's World Oct 23 - 26 #Tafelmusik dir Lina Tur Bonet at TrinityStPaulsCentre TORONTO
*VivaldiConc “Il Grosso Mogul” (Lina Tur Bonet soloist)
*VivaldiConc for 2 ob Dm
*ZelenkaSinf à 8 Am
*AlbicastroConc à 4 in Cm op7no4
*GeminianiConc 12 after Corelli La Folia
tafelmusik.org/concerts-eve...
2 pcs of music by Henry #Purcell discovered by musicologists.The printed sc of a prev unknown song found in Worcestershire and the orig ms for var kybd comp, partly in composer’s own hand, was found in Norfolk.
www.classicfm.com/music-news/h...
#VANDALIA
"#LaBomba" Mateo #Flecha
La música de los Reyes Católicos: Juegos de amor cortesano (Laredo 1496)

RocíodeFrutos s
GabrielDíaz a
VíctorSordo t
JavierCuevas b
TamarLalo fl
SaraÁgueda arpa
ArielAbramovich vihuela
JuanMeseguer dir
webvandalia.wixsite.com/misitio

youtu.be/ehazPDUrMMc?...
SatOct18 3:30
#TorontoChamberChoir Kaffeemusik
"TempusImperfectum: A BriefHistory of Music&Time" at Ch of the Redeemer TORONTO the ways in which composers conceived of & manipulated time in their compositions
#Ockeghem #Lassus #JohnCage #PeteSeeger others
 torontochamberchoir.ca/events/2025/...
Guillaume de #Machaut (c1300-1377)
“Messe de Nostre Dame”
The #HilliardEnsemble dir Paul Hillier

youtu.be/zTjIpRvUm7w (29:24)

one of the great masterpieces of medieval music, historically notable as the earliest known complete setting of the Ordinary of the Mass attributable to a single composer.