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Leading ensembles in the international, Canadian, and Quebec Baroque revival, Ensemble Caprice and Ensemble ArtChoral are still directed by their founder, conductor, choirmaster, composer, and flautist Matthias Maute. Caprice has released some twenty albums on the Atma Classique and Analekta labels. ArtChoral has released about ten outstanding recordings, also on the Atma Classique label.
In this particular case, Caprice’s baroque inclination is honored in this album dedicated to Vivaldi. This recording aims to be “both historical and imaginative: a reconstruction of Antonio Vivaldi’s lost concertos evoking four nations—La Francia, L’Inghilterra, La Spagna, and Il Gran Mogol. Mentioned in an 18th-century catalogue (1759), three of these concertos had fallen into oblivion, with the exception of Il Gran Mogol, rediscovered in 2010. Drawing on his expertise in baroque recomposition, Matthias Maute breathes new life into these lost works, scrupulously respecting the style of the Red Priest.”
As for the ArtChoral ensemble, the present day is given pride of place in Vol. 9 of the ensemble’s discography on Atma Classique: 13 Canadian female composers are performed here: Afarin Mansouri (born in 1974), Alice Ping Yee Ho (born in 1960), Amy Brandon (born in 1980), Beverley Mckiver (born in 1958), Carmen Braden (born in 1985), Fiona Ryan (born in 1980), Karen Sunabacka (born in 1975), Kati Agócs (born in 1975), Katya Pine (born in 1954), Leslie Uyeda (born in 1953), Mari Alice Conrad (born in 1981), Sandy Scofield (born in 1956), Sophie Dupuis (born in 1988).
The interview:
