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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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#VOCES8 sings Jean #Mouton 'Nesciens Mater' 8-voice motet - a quad #canon at the 5th w delay of 2 measures

score
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Nesciens mater virgo virum
peperit sine dolore
salvatorem saeculorum.
Ipsum regem angelorum
sola virgo lactabat,
ubere de caelo pleno.
youtu.be/UUooE1usEDI
December 14, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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Are you going?
December 13, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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"Nuper Rosarum Flores" Guillaume #Dufay c1400-1474 for consecration by #PopeEugeniusIV of Cathedral of SantaMaria del Fiore #Florence, on completion of dome built under guidance of FilippoBrunelleschi
everything.explained.today/Nuper_rosaru...

#HuelgasEnsemble #PaulVanNevel
youtu.be/hGW2HL35kqY?...
December 13, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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Henry #Purcell 1659-1695: #Chaconne for Flutes "2 in 1 upon a Ground" fr Dioclesian
youtu.be/is_GKcyX9iQ?...
#AffinitàEnsemble für AlteMusik
youtube.com/@affinitaens...
ElisabethBaumer #recorder
MariellaCuchiero recorder
RiccardoCoelatiRama violone
PietroProsser #lute
TakashiWatanabe #harpsichord
December 12, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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Antonio #Vivaldi's "Bajazet" an opera in three acts , RV 703 a "pasticcio" created from borrowed & adapted music...

VivicaGenaux mz
PatriziaCiofi mz
IldebrandoDArcangelo bbr
DavidDaniels ct
ElinaGaranca mz
MarijanaMijanovic contralto

#EuropaGalante
cond #FabioBiondi
youtu.be/OzvU3di_6ck?... 29:00
December 11, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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Alessandro #Piccinini (1566-1638) Toccata XIII
(Intavolatura di Liuto et di Chitarrone, Libro primo)
Klaudyna Żołnierek - #theorbo

youtu.be/WMEqHfmf9j4?... (2:17)
Special thanks to: Zespół Pałacowo-Parkowy w Ostromecku
December 10, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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"Orlando #Gibbons at the #ChapelRoyal"
The Choir of HM Chapel Royal, #HamptonCourtPalace, English #Cornett & #Sackbut Ensemble,
Joshua Simões (organ), dir Carl Jackson 

YouTube
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Buy
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December 9, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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MartinBest #MediaevalEnsemble
Album "Thys Yool - A #Medieval Christmas"
youtu.be/bIpzwSAn_NY?... (1:04:03)
Video: BSB Clm 28345, XV secolo
  / musicamedievale Mirko Virginio Volpe

arr/dir MartinBest
ensemble AlastairMacLachlan DavidCorkhill JeremyBarlow RosemaryThorndycraft
info cutt.ly/lwPtFACo
December 8, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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Missa Et ecce terrae motus á12
Antoine #Brumel 1460-1513
#CalmusEnsemble
AnjaPöche s
StefanKahle ct
FriedrichBracks t
LudwigBöhme br
ManuelHelmeke b

ViolaBlache s
AnnaKellnhofer s

#amarcord:
WolframLattke t
RobertPohlers t
FrankOzimek br
DanielKnauft b
HolgerKrause b

youtu.be/3QIEA02J8Ms?...
December 7, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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A #Dowland Anthology: 
"Divers #Lyra-lessons publisht by strangers"
34settings of 13pc assoc w Dowland’s name found in diff 16th&17thC #viol ms, notated entirely in #tablature requiring diff #tunings
2vol: 1st w sc trans, orig tab underlaid; 2nd for perf (tab only) www.greatbassviol.com/dowland.html
December 6, 2025 at 6:23 AM
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#ApollosFire is thrilled to revisit their magnificent #MichaelPraetorius' ChristmasVespers music (on the 20th anniversary of this program's Cleveland premiere!) at Trinity Cathedral in #Cleveland this month... Dec 12, and 18 to 21 apollosfire.org/product/chri...
purchase/sample
December 5, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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Applic are now open 2026 #Tafelmusik #Baroque SummerInstitute held June 7–20 in TORONTO Canada, 2-wk program for adv stu & pro musicians, explore rich rep&historical perf- masterclasses orch&choir chamberens lessons lectures&workshops dance opera
tafelmusik.org/artist-train...
deadline: Mar 1, 2026
Summer Institute 2026 - Tafelmusik
Information on the Tafelmusik Summer Institute, offering intensive orchestral workshops on specific themes.
tafelmusik.org
December 5, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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#EmmaKirkby CompleteRecitals
12-CD collection "how vocal music of the baroque and earlier eras should sound" w #AnthonyRooley #Purcell #Handel #Bach & #Mozart #Edwards #Campion #Dowland #Morley #Ferrabosco ...

Info
www.discogs.com/release/1334...

Playlist (334 tracks)
youtube.com/playlist?lis...
December 4, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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#karaoke #HallelujahChorus
www.spiritrax.com/backing-trac...

Complete #Messiah
53 songs fr the oratorio. This package has over 2.5 hrs of music in 52 MP3 backing tracks...
www.spiritrax.com/collections/...

CustomTracks -KeyTempoStructure&Inst Fine-tune Spiritrax.com track del in 1–3 bus days
December 3, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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George Frideric #Handel The #Messiah
Emma Kirkby, Judith Nelson, Carolyn Watkinson, Paul Elliot, David Thomas, Christ Church Cathedral Choir (Oxford), Academy of Ancient Music, conductor Christopher Hogwood
details:
www.discogs.com/release/5259...

music.youtube.com/playlist?lis... (1980 Decca)
December 2, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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Joseph Bodin de #Boismortier
Concerto opus 15 no. 3: mvmt III "Allegro"
Seldom Sene #recorder ensemble & Matthias Havinga www.seldomsene.com

Video: Daniël Brüggen (MusicFrame Films)
Sound: Christoph Martin Frommen
youtu.be/fG4kINC6MJA?... (3:16) #seldomsene or heard
December 1, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Reposted by Toronto Early Music Centre
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Some rather bizarre #marginalmusicians. Creatures playing a #broom, #bellows, and a hunting #horn. Also an #ape playing the #harp.
From the Roman de Gillion de Trazegnies, 1464
@gettymuseum.bsky.social
#marginaliamonday #manuscriptmonday #earlymusic #iconography #marginalia #15thCentury
December 1, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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Missa Pastores quidnam vidistis
#Clemens non Papa
#TallisScholars
Peter Phillips, conductor
youtu.be/XqvE15O029g?...

00:07 Kyrie
04:42 Gloria
12:09 Credo
21:17 Sanctus
24:48 Benedictus
27:54 Agnus Dei

Motet
Pastores, quidnam vidistis?
youtu.be/Lz-OTgiaNes?...
November 30, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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Evergreen presents
#RenaissanceMusic - perf RominaAbadi AveryMaclean AlisonMelville TatsukiShimoda ColinSavage - Dec14 at 2:30
HeliconianHall TORONTO
#Byrd #Holborne #Tye #Senfl #HenryVIII +others, on set Renaissance #recorders
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LeavesBeGreenPavansAlmainsGalliards
BeMused Network | Live Event in Toronto
Live event 'Evergreen: Renaissance Music For...' > Dec 14 @ 02:30 PM
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November 29, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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#Countertenor #IestynDavies sings "Oh Lord, Whose Mercies Numberless" from #Handel's dramatic oratorio #Saul (HMV 53 Act I) with Thomas Dunford and his Jupiter ens, in this selection fr their album Eternal Heaven, also featuring Lea Desandre.
Listen&Buy w.lnk.to/eteLY

youtu.be/FzrskrNXLds (3:54)
November 28, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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Dec14 3pm
GeorgeWestonRecitalHall
#TallisScholars in TORONTO
Tallis MissaPuerNatus
Byrd VotiveMassoftheVirgin
MatthewMartin new work
Britten HymntotheVirgin
Taverner MaterChristi
Nesbett Magnificat
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BoxOffice 416-366-7723 1-800-708-6754 [email protected]
November 28, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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#MadrigalHistoryTour
1984 #KingsSingers #BBC #documentary history of #madrigal in WEurope #ConsortofMusicke
youtube.com/playlist?lis...

#buy
MMG-1159
www.kingssingers.com/album/madrig...

e.g.
youtu.be/DTF2z3-fOek?...

Coming? #VimeoOnDemand 3h 21m ARTHAUS MUSIK
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November 27, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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FriDec12 at 7:30
#ChristmasCheer #DiapenteRenaissanceQuintet
#Renaissance carols, motets, songs: TheDiapenteBook of #Carols
feat pcs by William #Byrd, Guillaume #Dufay, Orlando #Gibbons, Étienne #Moulinié ...
StThomas's Ch
383 HuronSt TORONTO
www.eventbrite.ca/e/the-diapen...
November 26, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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#EnsembleLaReverdie
www.lareverdie.com
ClaudiaCaffagni voce, liuto
LiviaCaffagni voce, flauti, viella
Elisabetta DeMircovich voce, viella, symphonia
DoronDavidSherwin voce, cornetto muto, percussioni

TrentoMusicantica2010
Castella del Buonconsiglio
youtu.be/j0T5IRpFjto 39:13
#medieval #middleages
November 26, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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Joseph #Umstatt (1711-1762)
3 #HarpsichordConcertos & 2 #FluteConcertos
Sieglinde Größinger, Maja Mijatović, Ensemble Klingekunst

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appt mus dir at court of CountBrühl Dresden1749 where he met #Hasse & #JCFBach; later, appt courtcomposer to Prince vonFrankenstein Bamberg
November 25, 2025 at 1:22 PM