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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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.
Heinrich Ignaz Franz #Biber 1644-1704
Battalia à 10 (1673)
#VoicesOfMusic
0:00 Sonata
1:45 The rowdy pub
2:35 Presto
3:18 Mars
4:37 Presto
5:39 Aria
7:50 CelloBattle
8:41 Lament for the wounded
Hic dissonat ubique nam ebrii sic diversis Cantilenis clamare solent!
youtu.be/dMVI7z5GYRU?...
SatOct18 8pm
GesualdoPassione feat music #Gesualdo#KnoxCollegeChapel 59 St. GeorgeSt TORONTO 
torontoconsort.org/events/les-a... 

#LesArtsFlorissants
#PaulAgnew t cond
MiriamAllan s
HannahMorrison s
MélodieRuvio c
SeanClayton t
EdwardGrint b

Lotti Monteverdi Cardoso Lasso LasInfantas Mauduit Byrd
#JSBach Toccata & Fugue in D minor - played on a 2-manual 100-year-old #DominionOrchestral #ReedOrgan a 100% foot-powered mechanical inst (w/o pedal board) manufactured in Bowmanville, Ontario (restored 2012) #RodneyJantzi www.rodneyjantzi.com/index.php/re...

youtu.be/Bh0zigNPoec (11:25)
Sat Oct 18 at 7:30 #TallisChoir presents
"Glory of the #EnglishAnthem"
StPatrick's Ch, 137 McCaul St, TORONTO
'tho there are great settings of the mass&canticles throughout English history, it was the anthem that captured the genius of English composers for centuries
tallischoir.square.site#NyCbTp
AU DOUZ TENS NOUVEL
Chansons de Trouvères
EnsembleCéladon
PaulinBündgen
#trouvères #troubadours singing songs of love from court to court...#medieval courtly love...Guiot deDijon, Moniot dArras, Gautier deCoincy, Thibaut deChampagne & Maroie deDiergnau
lnk.to/AuDouzTensID

youtu.be/zMxIeNHRLhw?...
#LinarolConsort of #Viols w HéloïseBernard soprano
linarolconsort.com
Epitaph for a GreenLover: Music fr songbooks of Margaret of Austria
integral.lnk.to/EpitaphforaG...
Anon: L'Esperance de Bourbon
#AngelEarlyMusic #ContinuoFoundation #MarchusTrust
Emma&TomPauncefort at CRD Records and AdrianHunter
E-LAUTE at ÖsterreichischeNationalbibliothek aims to create digital ed of music writ in German #lute #tablature 1450-1550 E-LAUTE will switch tab to FR or IT, or even mod transc edition.onb.ac.at/context:elaute
Ain schone kunstliche underweisung: edition.onb.ac.at/fedora/objec...
pic metmuseum.org
LE TRE SOPRANO
"The ThreeLadies of #Ferrara"
AmandaForsythe
AmandaCrider
AmandaPowell
JeannetteSorrell dir
apollosfire.org
ARANES: Un Sarao de la Chacona
youtu.be/0nbG0D9DLbE

"late 16thC Ferrara, 3 bold young women w fiery passion dared to challenge the patriarchy."
apollosfire.org/product/le-t...
#Gregorian #Chant
music.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZeH...
an APP?
Neumz - GregorianChant in the palm of your hand neumz.com w square-note sc + notations StGall & Laon, texts&trans

1st&only compl rec & 1st compl digital resource PsalterLectionaryCollectaryAntiphonaryResponsoriaryGradual “Liber Digitalis”
"Fantasies, Ayres and Dances"
The #JulianBream Consort
(1987)

JJStelmach dir
RSpencer bandura/lute
JRyan bviol
NHadden fl
JTyler tviol cittern
RTear v
CMackintosh trviol
youtu.be/TnMTTmTwRlg?... "Joyne Hands"

music from #Elizabethan era ... consort songs&fantasias #Morley #Dowland #Byrd
#MusicaSecreta
"Ricordanze: a record of love" #BiffoliSostegni MS 27766 #womensvoices
musicasecreta.bandcamp.com/album/ricord...

sc musicasecreta.org/product-tag/... w kybd&viol pt
ACampbell ACarson VCouper YEddy EPiggott KWatt
LBrackett KHawnt
CTrevor
KWatt lute
CWilliams org
AKinder vl
LStras dir
#LazzuliBaroque presents:
Music&Medicine  
FriOct 3 at 7:30
StThomas’s Church, 383 Huron TORONTO
musical meditation...to heal body mind spirit...17thC masterpcs, elements of Trad ChineseMedicine, poetry...works by Monteverdi Strozzi Merula Stefani Galán Fontei ...
www.eventbrite.ca/e/lazzuli-ba...
Jean-Philippe #Rameau (1683-1764)
#MahanEsfahani #harpsichord
2014 double album the whole of Rameau’s output of kybd suites @hyperionrecords
Rameau: Pièces de clavecin www.hyperion-records.co.uk/dc.asp?dc=D_...

The instrument...1636 Ruckers by Parisian builder Hemsch in 1763 (the ‘Ruckers-Hemsch’)