Traumreise und Reisetraum: Torontos Tafelmusik auf barockem Roadtrip

By Jens Klier, 09 April 2021

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“rhythmische Akkuratesse, englischer Charme und französische Tugendhaftigkeit”

Reviewed at The Royal Conservatory of Music, TELUS Centre, Koerner Hall, Toronto on 8 April 2021

Purcell, The Double Dealer, incidental music, Z 592

Biber, Partia no. 6 in D major

Brescianello, Trio Sonata in C minor for Oboe, Violin and Continuo

Telemann, Quartet in E Minor

Couperin, La Sultane

Vivaldi, Trio Sonata in D minor Op.1 no. 12 RV 63 "La follia”

Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra

Opera Atelier's long delayed La resurrezione

John Gilks, 6th April

The young Handel's homage to Counter Reformation Rome, La resurrezione, is effectively brought to life by Opera Atelier with glittering sets and fine, stylish singing.

****1

A celebration of French Baroque opera-ballet at Versailles

Laura Servidei, 2nd December

Opera Atelier presents a double bill at the Royal Opera in Versailles filled with Baroque dancing, scenery and music.

***11

Tafelmusik: House of Dreams

Simon Hukin, 26th February

Bringing together disparate art forms is no easy task, as Tafelmusik's latest concert House of Dreams sadly proves.

**111

High-concept Handel can't obscure spectacular singing

Catherine Kustanczy, 23rd October

Opera Atelier’s latest production mixes traditional-specific touches the company is known for, and more high-concept inclusions. The results are mixed — but the singing is spectacular.

**111

Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra performs Beethoven in Toronto to a standing ovation

Sasha Drozzina, 19th September

Ludwig van Beethoven once said: “Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.” On 19 September, 2013, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra performed three works by the late Classical and early Romantic composer: the overture to Die Geschöpfe des Prometheus, and his first two symphonies.

*****

Joy and serenity flow from Mark Morris Dance Group in Toronto's Sony Centre at Luminato

Stanley Fefferman, 21st June

As Handel made music of John Milton’s poems L’Allegro and il Penseroso , Mark Morris made Handel’s music dance. The 32 scenes of Morris’ ballet breathe with inspiration of figures and designs from watercolours William Blake did for an edition of Milton’s poems.

*****

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Jens Klier

Vor seinem Rechtswissenschafts-Studium in Bayreuth und Bonn widmete sich Jens Klier seit frühester Kindheit musikalisch der Violine (Repertoire vom 17. bis 20. Jahrhundert). Während er zudem mit Gesang und dem Leben im Orchesterbetrieb groß wurde, entwickelte sich ein besonderes Interesse an der sogenannten 'Historischen Aufführungspraxis' und authentischen Instrumenten. Diese Leidenschaft hält sich hartnäckig, sodass er sie mit Vorliebe für das Barocke anstatt mit Finger und Bogen nun in Form der Musikkritik zu Gehör bringt. U.a. Telemann-Fan, Liebhaber J. S. Bachs Genies und Entdecker neuerer, seltenerer 'Alter Musik'.