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Bach: Brandenburg Conc. & Shostakovich: Preludes

Winner of one Juno and three Prix Opus from Conseil quebecois de la musique, notably "performer of the year" in 2010, Ensemble Caprice is renowned for its innovative interpretations of baroque music. The New York Times even called it "a group that encourages listeners to rehear the world." This new recording of the Ensemble combines Johann Sebastian Bach's famous Brandenburg Concertos, composed between 1712 and 1721, with a few preludes and one fugue by Dmitri Shostakovich, as arranged by music director Matthias Maute.

31 New 'ON' this week: 172 Total
SYND: Classical 24
Direct: SiriusXM, Music Choice
Markets include: New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Boston, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Wash DC, Dallas, Atlanta, Seattle, St. Louis, Minneapolis, Baltimore, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Houston, Pittsburgh, Detroit, Portland, Austin, Denver, New Orleans, Berkeley CA, Louisville KY, San Antonio, Madison WI, Honolulu
Online: RadioIO, Taintradio

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Salsa Baroque

Ensemble Caprice is proud to present: Salsa Baroque. One can describe baroque music of Latin America as a fusion of harmonies and rhythms of Europe and Africa blended with Amerindian nuances and styles. This unique fusion dates back to the 16th century and gave rise to a complex and fascinating multitude of musical forms resulting in a great variety of instrumentations, structures, and rhythmic and melodic phrasing. Salsa is the Spanish word for sauce, designating at the same time a dance as well as a family of musical genres in Latin-American music. It is this latter meaning and its ancient roots that, together with a bit of humour, we have taken to give the title Salsa baroque to our project. Despite the human and political tragedies surrounding the colonization of the South-American continent, the multipolar musical culture that resulted is distinguished by its fiery spirit and passion: here is music with a unique character that enriches the repertoire of the 17th century with refreshing novelties.

13 New 'ON' this week: 66 Total
Synd: NPR/Sunday Baroque, Millennium Of Music
Direct: SiriusXM, Music Choice
Markets include: New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, Seattle, Atlanta, Houston, Cleveland, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Kansas City, New Orleans, Austin
Online: Taintradio

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Adagio

Under the artistic direction of Matthias Maute, Ensemble Caprice renowned for its innovative interpretations of baroque music records ‘Adagio.' Founded in Germany in 1989, Ensemble Caprice is now well established in Montreal and has achieved national and international success. The Ensemble is often invited to perform in Europe and in the United States.

"The music of the CD Adagio: A Consideration of a Serious Matter lies exactly where real questions begin..." - Matthias Maute

20 New 'ON' 81 TOTAL
SYND: PRI/Classical 24
Direct: SiriusXM, Music Choice, MOOD, Galaxie
Markets include: New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, Boston, Philadelphia, Wash DC, Dallas, Atlanta, Cleveland, Portland, Seattle, Minneapolis, Houston, Baltimore, St. Louis, Cincinnati, New Orleans, Detroit, Austin, Pittsburgh, Buffalo, CANADA
Online: RadioIO, Taintradio

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Chaconne

On Chaconne - Voices of Eternity, Ensemble Caprice gathers some of the most beautiful chaconnes and passacaglias from the hundreds of composed during the Baroque period. In the chaconne and the passacaglia, repetition of the same harmonic formula allowed for the representation of a notion of time that transcended that of day-to-day experience – in other words, eternity! As a geometrically variable group, Ensemble Caprice here draws on the talents of seven musicians playing period instruments, who are joined by organist Jean-Willy Kunz, sopranos Dawn Bailey and Jana Miller and mezzo-soprano Maude Brunet. In addition to the instrumental pieces judiciously selected from a vast repertoire, Matthias Maute (conductor and composer) has rearranged certain others for two recorders and bass, including Johann Sebastian Bach's famous Chaconne BWV 1004 for solo violin and Monteverdi's Chi vol che m'innamori (with its closing "Today we are light, and then tomorrow, shadow"). The album also contains hauntingly beautiful 16th-century Czech folksongs. Everything, in a program of heightened feeling, takes us to this indescribable notion of eternity.

16 NEW 76 Total
SYND: Classical 24, CBC, TRH
Direct: SiriusXM, Music Choice, MOOD, Stingray
Markets include: New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, Boston, Philadelphia, Wash DC, Dallas, Atlanta, St. Louis, Seattle, Cleveland, Minneapolis, Cincinnati, Portland, Detroit, Baltimore, Houston, Denver, Pittsburgh, Austin, New Orleans, Albuquerque, Buffalo, Columbus OH, Honolulu, Canada
Online: Taintradio

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Telemann

The Ensemble Caprice members are putting on their gypsy attire! Following a wild journey along with Vivaldi on the bohemian road, they do it again with Telemann! High-octane performances of the composer's oeuvre are intertwined with sparkling Matthias Maute's arrangements of gipsy pieces. All the colors and opulence of a unique cultural heritage offered to you. From Telemann's own writings, after listening to gypsy musicians and their music: One can hardly believe what wonderful imaginative ideas these pipers and fiddlers have as they improvise. In only a week, a composer could be inspired for an entire lifetime. I have written several major concertos in this style.

8 New ON this week 69 Total
Synd: APM/Performance Today, PRI/Classical 24
Direct: SiriusXM/Boundaries, Music Choice/Light Classical, In-Flight on Air Canada
Markets include: Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, Boston, Philadelphia, Minneapolis, Houston, Cleveland, Detroit, Baltimore, New Orleans, Kansas City, Berkeley CA, Honolulu
Online: Taintradio, RadioIO, Beethoven.com