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From the latest newsletter of the Country Dance and Song Society, the CDSS Store is featuring some items of early music interest. If your interests also include those of period dance as well as dance repertoire on CD, you may be interested in visiting the society’s web store pages.
                    

“Toronto (Canada) … Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra and Chamber Choir is thrilled to announce the launch of its own new record label called Tafelmusik Media. The announcement was made following a performance of Handel’s Hercules in celebration of Jeanne Lamon’s 30th anniversary as Music Director. Tafelmusik is recognized as “one of the world’s top baroque orchestras” (Gramophone), and the launch of its own label is an international initiative that will sow seeds for the organization’s future growth in recording and broadcasting, as well as build audiences around the world in the years to come.
                         

Recently, the 2012 BBC Music Magazine Awards took place at London’s Kings Place. You will find details of all the winners as well as listen to extracts from all of the winning recordings on their web page.
                          

Le Poème Harmonique reminds us of their upcoming concerts for the month of May 2012. Notice that the group is travelling to China and Japan. Happy concertizing!
  

Location: The Registry Theatre, 122 Frederick Street, Kitchener ON Canada (22 apr 2012)

Handel - Sonata in C major
Beethoven - Sonata in D, Op. 102, No. 2
Brahms - Sonata in E minor, Op. 38
de Falla - Suite Populaire

Performed in the style of their composers, the performances will include a rare J.B Streicher fortepiano (1851) and a Sebastien-Philippe Bernardel violoncello (1849). A masterclass will follow the April 22nd performance.
                

Location: Sala Concerti SPMT Piazza Giustiniani 4a – Roma (Italy)

“The 24th edition of the concert series“Musica & Musica“, organized by the Scuola Popolare di Musica di Testaccio, features in its section Suoni Nel Tempo a program of dance music with the Orchestra da Ballo de Il Teatro della Memoria, an ensemble led by Andrea Toschi and specialized in the performance – supported by research on the original arrangements – of the typical Salon Orchestra repertory.“
            

“Deo Gratias Anglia is a voyage in time and space. English Carols, Hymns, Motets … criss-cross and envelope you during this concert transporting you to the heart of the English song of the XIVth century.”
 
Anne Delafosse, soprano
Clara Coutouly, soprano
Paulin Bündgen, countertenor     
        

Location: Sheraton and Astor Crowne Plaza, New Orlean, Louisiana USA

“The University of Alabama School of Music, together with the University of Illinois, Wake Forest University, the American Beethoven Society, the Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies, and San José State University (Prof. Joanna Biermann UA, Prof. William Kinderman UIUC, Prof. David Levy WFU, Prof. William Meredith SJSU) are sponsoring a second fall conference on New Beethoven Research, to be held in New Orleans on October 31 and November 1, 2012.
       

From the latest LIM newsletter (06 apr 2012):

Libreria Musicale Italiana (LIM) is offering a 15% discount and free shipping for orders placed between Friday (April 6) and Monday (April 9). LIM has quite a few early music titles in its library and publishes new titles on a regular schedule.
                   

Location: Eastminster United Church, 310 Danforth Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

“Families.  You can’t live with them, you can’t legally have them all sent to an island in the middle of the ocean.  The Baroque era saw many families of composers and musicians who tolerated each other - or didn’t.  Jed Wentz and Olivier Fortin come for the I FURIOSI dysfunctional family reunion.

Works by the Bach family, the Purcell family, the Couperin family and more.”
    

“COLLEGIUM MUSICUM Den Haag was founded in 2006 by young, talented, energetic musicians, united under the direction of Brazilian/Italian harpsichordist Claudio Ribeiro. These musicians were drawn to Holland from all over the world in order to perfect themselves with the finest, most respected musicians in Baroque music today.
                      

Location: The dance hall at the“Tres Tangos“ dancing school in Dresden Dornblüthstraße 16, 01277 Dresden, Germany

“The European Ballroom (Dancing Series) = workshops, where the Dance School .creanc. will teach you beautiful quadrilles, cotillions and national dances of the 19th century, written for the European ballroom. You will also learn about the history of the dances and the personalities connected with them. …

“ … Oakland-based independent record label, music production company, and recording studio Flowinglass Music was founded in 1993 by husband and wife musical team Margaret Davis and Kristoph Klover. Flowinglass Music publishes the works of Celtic rock band Avalon Rising, Celtic/Early Music group Broceliande, Celtic duo Margaret & Kristoph, and singer/harper Margaret Davis.

Recordings on the Flowinglass Music label are widely available through such outlets as iTunes, CDBaby, and Amazon, and our catalog was recently picked up for distribution by Sugo Music. Our music has been widely featured on Internet and traditional radio stations, newspapers, and magazines.
              

“Jory Vinikour is recognized as one of the outstanding harpsichordists of his generation. A highly diversified career brings him to the world's most important festivals and concert halls as recital and concerto soloist, partner to several of today's finest singers, and as one of the most visible continuo performers. Born in Chicago, Jory Vinikour came to Paris on a scholarship from the Fulbright Foundation to study with Huguette Dreyfus and Kenneth Gilbert. First Prizes in the International Harpsichord Competitions of Warsaw (1993) and the Prague Spring Festival (1994) brought him to the public's attention, and he has since appeared in festivals and concert series throughout much of the world.
                     

Location: Palais des Congrès - Avenue du Maréchal Foch - 65 100 Lourdes

Concert performed at the Festival of Lourdes, works from C.P.E. Bach, Quantz, Couperin, Telemann et Vivaldi. There will also be an interview ( 19:00-20:00 10 apr 2012) on France Musique’s programme “Les traverses du temps": Marcel Quillevéré with Jean-Marc Andrieu. A podcast of the interview will later be available on the France Musique site. 
        

“Ganassi is a group dedicated to the dissemination of Renaissance and Baroque music, which brings together musicians who have played and loved period music for over a decade. Its name comes from Silvestro Ganassi (1492 -?), One of the most important theorists of the Renaissance, who also has the merit of being the first to write a treatise devoted exclusively to the recorder: The Fontegara, printed in Venice in 1535.
               

Internationally recognized for the quality of its performances and the originality of its projects, Alla francesca figures among groups who strive to discover and interpret repertoire in the best of conditions. The interpretation, both lively and poetic, is the result of a long process of maturation, research and exchange, a music test of performance practice, with a real sense of collaboration and contact with the public.
         

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“For over 25 years, all around the globe, Fretwork has brought music for viols to life through live concerts, recordings and broadcasts. Their repertory includes anything and everything that can be played on viols, from the first printed music in Venice in 1501 to music composed for them today.
               

“Sastamala Gregoriana is a festival celebrating and fostering the appreciation of Finnish medieval art and culture. It is inspired by Sastamala Old Church. This is a historically important building, a beautiful and spiritually uplifting environment, and an acoustic space with unique qualities, which are perfectly suited to “early music”. This combination is something that deserves to be known and appreciated by local, national and international visitors.
                

Location: Centre in the Square, Kitchener Ontario, Canada

“Star tenor Benjamin Butterfield, performs the role of the Evangelist, telling the Passion story in this deeply moving Good Friday tradition. Bach: St. Matthew Passion (In German, with English surtitles). Mark Vuorinen, conductor. Soloists Evangelist: Benjamin Butterfield (Tenor), Christus: Doug Williams (Bass-Baritone), Meredith Hall (Soprano), Daniel Taylor (Alto), Cory Knight (Tenor) and Daniel Lichti (Bass-Baritone).”
                       

“ABS Music Director (Jeffrey Thomas) led a discussion about Bach's Mass in B Minor prior to the recent performance of that work by the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra and Ton Koopman. The concert took place in UC Berkeley's Zellerbach Hall, under the auspices of Cal Performances.“