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Amal Allaoui, soprano - Angèle Meunier, alto
Nicolas Rether, Simon Gamerre, tenors - Etienne Bazola, bass

Françoise LASSERRE, conductor
  

“We base our workshops on pieces we are passionate about. This year is no different and we will be working on Bach’s John Passion which is the main drive of our recording initiative for 2012.
  

The two and one-half day retreat will conclude with a celebrated Latin Mass, sung in The Cathedral at the Arts District, 2215 Ross Ave., in downtown Dallas at 5 p.m.. Morales’ Missa Aspice Domine will serve as the ordinary of the Mass. The choir will also sing related motets and Gregorian chant during the service.
   
  

Location:  Daniels Hall: 5th Ave @Marion St. Downtown Seattle, Washington, 98104

“Music starts from an impulse of the soul. When a musician shares that impulse with an audience as it happens, we call it improvisation

Join world-reknowned guitarist Bill Frisell, virtuoso violinist Mikhail Shmidt, and PMW music director and lutenist Stephen Stubbs as they pool their talents in exploring the art which underlies much of the greatest music of the modern era, from the dazzling art of the Baroque to the 20th century's invention of instrumental jazz.
         

The latest newsletter from Le Poème Harmonique reminds us of their upcoming concerts for the month of February 2012.
  

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News from the latest Oxford Journals newsletter that the November 2011 edition of the “Early Music” journal is available online for its subscribers.
  

Rosenna East Interview with  John But, Director of the Dunedin Consort.

“In the run up to the Dunedin Consort’s Brandenburg concertos this month, Rosenna went to speak to Director and Bach scholar John Butt.”
  

“In the 17th-century, the city of Prague experienced a resurgence of cultural and musical life inspired by foreign influences.
  

Critically acclaimed soprano Jessica Gould, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra members harpsichordist Bradley Brookshire and lutenist Daniel Swenberg are joined by The Rose of the Compass Ensemble (Nina Stern, recorders, Ara Dinkjian, oud & Glen Velez, percussion) for a unique performance of the music of West and East in the Venetian Empire.
  

“… After exhaustive research of London’s finest drinking establishments (and thank you for all your brilliant suggestions), we now have five fabulous venues lined up and are ready to announce our Night Shift pub tour. We’ve managed to touch all points of the compass, with the bonus of a dead-central venue too (It’s more of a bar than pub but we hope you’ll forgive us that). …
   

News from Ensemble Syntagma that its most recent CD release “Rosa e Orticha” (November 2011, Carpe Dium Records) has received “Best Recordings of the Year (2011)” by the Medieval Music and Art Foundation (USA) website. In addition, it has received a“20/20” from Musik and Sich, “Best Recordings of the Year” from “O Templo das Heresias” and, finally, was featured on the “In the Mode” (Public Valley Radio, California) programme on 8 Jan 2012.
    

Maximum of 12 participants. This workshop is for all levels, singers, dancers and instrumentalists, adults, teenagers, students, professionals and amateurs of all levels.
  

Masterclass with Michèle Claude (percussionist) and Christophe Deslignes (recorder, portative organ,“chant”, dance, theater). Masterclasses include individual work with instructors, collective masterclasses, auditions and conferences, and a final concert on 21 April 2012. Only 10 participants will be accepted (5 participants per instructors).
  

With Christophe Deslignes and assisted by Eva Fogegesang

Maximum of 12 participants. This workshop is for all levels, singers, dancers and instrumentalists, adults, teenagers, students, professionals and amateurs of all levels.
  

“The British Library and online publisher brightsolid have launched a website that will transform the way people use historical newspapers to find out about the past.
      

“Le Clavecin en fête, a spring festival held in some of the most beautiful venues in Walloon Brabant and in Brussels, is celebrating its 22^nd anniversary, this year. 

The traditional venue of these concerts is the beautiful romanesque church of Tourinnes-la-Grosse, from which the festival derives its name. But the little church of Upigny provides an alternative venue when the intimate character of the works on the program requires one.

In the wake of the festival, there are also "The Harpsichord on Thursdays" and the "Espace Mikrokosmos", whose programs are a perfect foil for those of "The Harpsichord at Tourinnes".
   

Location: First Church Congregational, Cambridge MA, US

“Helios Early Opera makes its debut with Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s grand biblical drama David et Jonathas. A tragic love story between the future king of Israel and the doomed Jonathan, son of King Saul, David et Jonathas is one of only two full-length operas by one of the most fascinating composers of the seventeenth century. Full of psychological intensity, Bretonneau’s libretto provides a gripping drama that is highlighted by Charpentier’s dazzlingly innovative and powerful score.”
      

“In 2012, Alessandro De Marchi, Artistic director of the Innsbruck Festival of Early Music, focuses on the influence that popular, traditional music of the baroque period had on composed music of that time. The programme is a journey through the great world of early music to various folk-music sources and to artistically impressive regions of sound – all across Europe as well as to Latin America and China. Rather exotic beauties also populate the opera stage: the passionate Neapolitan Stellidaura in an opera by Provenzale, the beautiful Helena in Bontempi’s “Il Paride” and the power­hungry Poppea in Monteverdi’s masterpiece.”
    

Location: Watou, BE
(Pre-programs from 12th to 17th May)

“From the 17th to the 20th of May 2012, twenty-eight prominent gregorian scholas, ensembles and choirs from Europe and Asia will be meeting in the West-Flemish art village of Watou where, for the eleventh time, the International Festival of Gregorian Chant will take place, the most important festival in the world featuring this kind of music. For people who cherish silence and gregorian chant Watou has become a halting-place and a pilgrim’s resort. ”
  

From the latest http://www.Musicologie.org newsletter no. 137 (12 Jan 2012), articles of interest:

• Biography of Lebègue Nicolas-Fraçois (1631-1702) by Jean-Marc Warszawski (http://is.gd/gIPPg4)
  
• Analysis of Bach’s fugue BMV 865/2 by Claude Charlier (http://is.gd/cIRDEr) 

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