Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra
Since taking its current ensemble form in the early 1980s, Canada's Tafelmusik (in full, the Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra) has been among North America's foremost groups specializing in historically informed performances of Baroque music. The group has been unusually prolific on recordings, issuing more than 75 albums whose success has been international in scope.
In its original incarnation in the late 1970s, Tafelmusik was a four-person chamber music group. It took its name from a collection of music by Baroque composer Georg Philipp Telemann whose title meant "table music," indicating a collection of pieces suitable for dinners and banquets. Under the leadership of violinist Jeanne Lamon, who remained Tafelmusik's music director until 2014, the group grew into a small orchestra; in the 1980s there were 11 players, and around 2000 the membership stabilized at 19. An associated Tafelmusik Chamber Choir was established in 1981. Based in Toronto, and specifically at Trinity St. Paul's Church, Tafelmusik has played period instruments and performed according to what is known of Baroque-era performance practices. The group's development coincided with a rise in the popularity of Baroque music, and by 2000 the group was playing concerts almost weekly in Canada, North America, and Europe. In the face of competition from top European Baroque orchestras, Tafelmusik has toured repeatedly in Britain, Germany, France, and other European countries. In the 1990s and 2000s, the group was ensemble-in-residence at Germany's Klang und Raum Festival, and tours to East Asia were added to its calendar. Lamon retired as music director in 2014 and as chief artistic advisor in 2017, but has continued to perform with the group. In 2017, violinist Elia Citterio became the group's new music director. That year, Tafelmusik performed at the inauguration of Julie Payette as Canada's new governor-general; Payette had been a member of the Tafelmusik Chamber Choir.
Tafelmusik is especially notable for its large catalog of more than 75 recordings, many of which have been released on labels such as Harmonia Mundi and Sony Classical. In recent years, the group has operated its own Tafelmusik Media label. Tafelmusik's repertory has expanded forward to the music of Beethoven and his contemporaries, but it has remained predominantly centered on the Baroque. In 2019, Tafelmusik released the album Vivaldi con Amore.
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Beethoven: Symphonies 1–9
Klassiek - Released by Groupe Analekta, Inc on 22 sep. 2017
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Tales of Two Cities: The Leipzig-Damascus Coffee House
Klassiek - Released by Tafelmusik on 17 nov. 2017
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Baroque for the Brain
Klassiek - Released by Tafelmusik on 20 mrt. 2020
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Vivaldi con amore
Klassiek - Released by Tafelmusik on 20 sep. 2019
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Vivaldi, Scarlatti, Avison: Salve Regina, Stabat Mater, Concerti per Archi
Marie-Nicole Lemieux, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, Jeanne Lamon
Klassiek - Released by Analekta on 18 sep. 2003
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The Music of Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges
Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, Linda Melsted, Genevieve Gilardeau, Jeanne Lamon
Klassiek - Released by Tafelmusik on 1 jan. 2003
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Handel: Best of Messiah
Klassiek - Released by Tafelmusik on 18 nov. 2014
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Baroque for Baby
Klassiek - Released by Tafelmusik on 16 okt. 2020
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A Baroque Feast
Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, Jeanne Lamon
Klassiek - Released by Analekta on 9 apr. 2002
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Best of French Baroque
Klassiek - Released by Tafelmusik on 30 okt. 2015
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Best of German Baroque: J.S. Bach
Klassiek - Released by Tafelmusik on 30 okt. 2015
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J.S. Bach: Cantatas BWV 70 & 154; Concerto BWV 1060; Orchestral Suite No. 2
Daniel Taylor, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra
Klassiek - Released by Analekta on 27 sep. 2011
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ITALIAN CONCERTO GROSSI (Pietro Antonio Locatelli - Antonio Vivaldi - Giuseppe Torelli)
Klassiek - Released by CBC on 1 jan. 2008
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Leonardo Leo (1694-1744) Six Cello Concertos
Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, Anner Bylsma
Klassiek - Released by Launchpad Records on 20 feb. 2023
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Bach: Coffee Cantata, Peasant Cantata
Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, Jeanne Lamon
Klassiek - Released by Analekta on 1 jan. 2000
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Vivaldi: L'Estro Armonico
Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, Jeanne Lamon
Klassiek - Released by Analekta on 25 sep. 2007
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Dardanus - Le temple de la Gloire
Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, Jeanne Lamon
Klassiek - Released by Tafelmusik on 2 dec. 2003
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Handel: Arias and Dances, Excerpts from Agrippina and Alcina
Karina Gauvin, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra
Klassiek - Released by Analekta on 1 jan. 1999
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Leo: Six Cello Concertos
Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, Jeanne Lamon, Anner Bylsma
Klassiek - Released by ATMA Classique on 1 jan. 1986
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BACH / HANDEL / ROSENMULLER: Masters of the German Baroque (Johann Sebastian Bach - George Frideric Handel - Johann Rosenmuller)
Klassiek - Released by CBC on 1 jan. 1988
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AVISON: Concerto Grossi (Charles Avison)
Klassiek - Released by CBC on 1 jan. 1987
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