Toronto Early Music News Volume 26, No. 2 June ’10 - August ’10 a quarterly bulletin of the Toronto Early Music Centre Distributed free to TEMC members - Cost to non-members is $2.00 Toronto Early Music News Contents of Vol. 26 no. 2 Calendar of Forthcoming Events is a quarterly bulletin of the Toronto Early Music Centre (TEMC) . Opinions expressed in June . 2 it are those of the authors and may not be endorsed by the Toronto Early Music Centre . July . 4 Unsolicited manuscripts, letters, etc . are welcome, as is any information about early August . 6 music concerts, events, recordings and copies of recordings for review . The deadline for the September . 7 the next issue (September ’10–November ’10) is August 9, 2010 . Lives Lived: Douglas John Valleau . 7 Subscription is free with membership to the Toronto Early Music Centre . 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Ungvary Musically Speaking 2010 . 13 The TEMC gratefully acknowledges the support of the City of Toronto through the CanadaCD .ca . 14 Toronto Arts Council, the Church of the Holy Trinity, Montgomery’s Inn, and its own members and the following generous donors: Instrument Rentals . 14 Medieval & Renaissance Reference Website . 15 • $10-$49 • Opera Atelier’s 25th Anniversary Season . 15 Regina Bendig, Andrea Bizzotto, Penny Burrows, Katherine Cowan, Simone Desilets, Voices Of Music . 16 Fred & Ursula Franklin, Katalin Gallyas, Patricia Hanley, Alison Healing, David & Lara Hunt, Lyrichord Podcasts . 16 Marion Jewell, Barbara J. Kaye, David Keenleyside, Krystina Lewicki, Peter Newton, Performances Feature First Modern Copy Of Chopin’s Jean Nichols, D.L. Parker, Scott Paterson, Paulette Popp, Helmut Rentschler, Stephen Ripley, Favorite Fortepiano . 16 Joan Robinson, Kevin Skelton Performance Review – Courtesans from Versailles . 17 • $50-$99 • Tafelmusik Launches Nine-City European Tour . 19 Janet & Roger Beck, Jim & Rachael Boles, Linda Deshman, Margaret Huggett, Alison CD Reviews by Paul-James Dwyer Melville, Roger D. Moore, Dr. Mary Sidgwick, Irene & Sidney Smith, Robert Temkin, Lute Sonatas, Vol . 10 . 21 Elaine Waddington Battaglia d’amore . 22 6 Paris Symphonies & 15 Symphonies . 22 • $100+ • L’orgue historique de Nay . 23 Tamara Bernstein, Sara Blake, Elan Dresher, Bruce Ferreira-Wells, John & Pierrette Ferth, La Simphonie du Marais . 24 John Gillies & Anne-Marie Prendiville, Ron Greaves, Roger Greenwald, Christine Haggarty, Mary Enid Haines, Balfour Halevy, Patricia Hiemstra, David Klausner, Miep Koenig, Contributors: Frank Nakashima; Paul-James Dwyer ; Luisa Trisi, publicist for Anie Lafrance, Michael Lerner, Michael Lipowski, Blair MacKenzie, Susan Middleton, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra R. Milankov, Frank Nakashima, Frank Nevelo, John Newton, Christopher Palin, Greg Pastic, Bruno Ramirez, Stuart C. Rogers, J.L. Schachner, Merrilea Shields, Walter & Caryl Sinclair, Editor: Frank Nakashima Graphic Designer: Karen Harkness Peter Solomon, Karen Waisglass, Shaunie Young Weiss, Biber, Vivaldi, Rameau . Walter Hall, Faculty of Calendar of Forthcoming Events Music University of Toronto, 80 Queen’s Park . FREE 13 Sunday 2:30 The Toronto Early Music Centre presents “Musically Speaking,” a one-hour enlightening program of historical • June performance at the Church of the Holy Trinity, 10 Trinity Square (near the Eaton Centre, on the West side) Toronto, 1 1 Tuesday 7:30 Handel Israel in Egypt – Tafelmusik, directed by Ivars Ontario M5G 1B1 . Admission by donation . Featuring Taurins, with Teri Dunn (soprano), Matthew White the Pieces de clavecin en concerts by Rameau, also music by (countertenor), Lawrence Wiliford (tenor), Sumner Marais, Buxtehude and Telemann . Ensemble L’indiscrète Thompson (baritone), and the Tafelmusik Chamber Choir . comprises of harpsichordist Sara-Anne Churchill, with Elyssa Koener Hall, TELUS Centre, Royal Conservatory of Music Lefurgey-Smith, baroque violin, and Justin Haynes, viola da 5 Saturday 8:00 “I Declare War” – The I Furiosi Baroque Ensemble gamba . For more information, please call 416-464-7610 . prepares for musical battle with Kris Kwapes, natural 16 Wednesday 1:00 Tafelmusik Baroque Summer Institute participants trumpet, and Olivier Fortin, harpsichord . Calvin under the direction of Jeanne Lamon and Ivars Taurins Presbyterian Church, 26 Delisle Avenue, one block perform music by Lully, Telemann, and J .S . Bach . Walter North of St . Clair, just West of Yonge . 416-536-2943 Hall, Faculty of Music, University of Toronto, 80 Queen’s www .ifuriosi .com Park . FREE 6 Sunday 1:30-4:00 Toronto Early Music Players Organization (TEMPO) 18 Friday 7:30 Fireworks Masquerade Gala at the Buehlow Barn in Ayr, Workshop – Femke Bergsma studied recorder in the Ontario – the opening night of the Grand River Baroque Netherlands and has played with Les Boréades and Festival with music by Rebel, Handel, and Vivaldi . Tafelmusik . She is a recorder maker and can help tune www grbf. ca,. Tickets 519-498-7332, Contact 519-404-5757 . up or repair your recorders . Lansing United Church, 49 Bogert Avenue, just South-West of Yonge & Sheppard, 19 Saturday 1:00 FourSeasons – featuring violinist Aisslinn Nosky with 416-537-3733 . Non-members $20 . Bring your recorders, the GRBF soloists, conducted by Eric Paetkau, at Know early instruments and stand; music available at the door . United Church, 92 Northumberland Street, Ayr, Ontario . www grbf. ca,. Tickets 519-498-7332, Contact 519-404-5757 . 7 Monday 8:00 “Delightfully Baroque” – The Tafelmusik Orchestra and Choir with soloists Ann Monoyios (soprano) and 19 Saturday 3:00 Fermate il passo – Viva BiancaLuna Biffi will visit us to Rufus Muller (tenor) perform music by Vivaldi, Purcell, present this program during her summer festival tour . Viva J .S . Bach, and Handel, at Trinity-St. Paul’s Centre, studied at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis specializing 427 Bloor Street West, just west of Spadina . FREE in singing and medieval/renaissance gamba . She will be singing and playing the violetta bastarda . Knox United 12 Saturday 12:00 “Musical Interlude” – A casual noon-hour concert Church, 92 Northumberland Street, Ayr, Ontario of baroque chamber music by members of the Toronto www grbf. ca,. Tickets 519-498-7332, Contact 519-404-5757 . Baroque Summer Institute: Claire Guimond (flute), Dominic Teresi (culcian), Patricia Ahern, Genevieve 19 Saturday 7:30 “The Grand Finale” – features the students and faculty Gilardeau & Julia Wedman, violins; Christina Mahler of the Tafelmusik Baroque Summer Institute at Grace (violoncello), David Sinclair (double bass), Lucas Harris Church on-the-Hill, 300 Lonsdale Road . FREE, but (lute), Olivier Fortin, Borys Medicky & Charlotte Nediger tickets, available at the Tafelmusik Box Office (427 Bloor (harpsichord/organ) . Program includes music by J .S . Bach/ Street West), are required . 2 Toronto Early Music News Volume 26, No. 2 Volume 26, No. 2 Toronto Early Music News 19 Saturday 8:00 Big Band Baroque – Mezzo Jean Stillwell, trumpeter 5 Monday 12:00 Italian singer Viva Biancaluna Biffi also performs in Guy Few, lutenist Terry McKenna, and the GRBF soloists the Music Mondays series, accompanying herself perform music of Blood Sweat and Tears, Imogen Heap on the violetta bastarda . Viva studied at the Schola and Coldplay, along with John Dowland and Francois Cantorum Basiliensis specializing in singing and medieval/ Couperin, in a collage of early music and modern pop . renaissance gamba . Church of the Holy Trinity, west Buehlow Barn, Ayr, Ontario . side of the Eaton Centre (Yonge & Dundas) . Suggested www grbf. ca,. Tickets 519-498-7332, Contact 519-404-5757 . donation $5 . More info: 416-598-4521 ext .222 20 Sunday 12:00 Feast and Fencing – Picnic lunch is followed by 15 Thursday 7:00 Four Hands, Twenty-Nine Strings – Playing an array of premieres of concerti written for the festival directors, period instruments, violinist Linda Melsted and guitarist Guy Few and Nadine Mackie Jackson . Matthieu Lussier Terry McKenna romp their way through music from will perform Vivaldi’s Bassoon Concerto no. 5 in d minor; the 17th to the 20th century: old English dance tunes, Cristina Zacharias and Julie Baumgartel will play the an opera overture, a steamy tango, and more! Works by Sinfonia Concertante for 2 violins in G major op.13 by Gluck, Niccola Matteis, Maximo Diego Pujol and Pierre Joseph de Bologne, the Chevalier de Saint-George . Porro . Toronto Music Garden, 475 Queens Quay West Buehlow Barn, Ayr, Ontario . between Bathurst and Spadina . Concerts are held weather www grbf. ca,. Tickets 519-498-7332, Contact 519-404-5757 . permitting . For more information phone 416-973-4000 or visit harbourfrontcentre .com and click “The Waterfront” Vocal Circle – Recreational reading of early choral music . 28 Monday 7:30 tab on the home page . FREE Ability