November 30th, 2015
The Ottawa Bach Choir (OBC) presents its opening subscription concerts in this season of magnificent choral works: J.S. Bach: Mass in B Minor, BWV 232, Saturday, November 14, 2015, 7:30PM, at Grace Church on-the-Hill, 300 Lonsdale Road, Toronto; and Sunday, November 15, 2015, 7:30PM, at Dominion-Chalmers United Church, 355 Cooper Street, Ottawa. This concert features the full setting of one of Bach’s last and greatest compositions, completed in 1749, but only first […]
May 2nd, 2015
“Join the OBC for a concert celebrating the coming of spring with some of the best madrigals and chansons of the Renaissance period paired with Haydn’s rarely heard part-songs,” says Founder and Artistic Director, Lisette Canton. “We invite you to immerse yourself in the beauty of the season with this magnificent music.” The Ottawa Bach Choir was founded in 2002 by Dr. Lisette Canton and offers a wide range of […]
September 8th, 2014
Who: Ottawa Bach Choir, Lisette Canton, conductor, Mélisande Sinsoulier, Frédéric Lacroix, piano Soloists: Ellen McAteer, soprano; Geoffrey Sirett, baritone Where: International des musiques sacrées de Québec, Église Saint-Dominique, Quebec City Reviewed on: Sunday, September 7 – 4:00 PM On the road again … A typical Ottawa music season finds the Ottawa Bach Choir and its founder/conductor Lisette Canton giving three major concerts and occasionally participating in sundry events. Some summers they perform in Chamberfest and/or Music and Beyond. […]
June 2nd, 2014
OTTAWA — Coming to Leipzig to hear Bach is a pilgrimage, especially during the annual Bachfest in June. And singing in the Thomaskirche, the church from which Bach performed his functions as the city’s music director, is clearly an experience like no other especially for the Ottawa Bach Choir and its founder, Lisette Canon. The intensity of their rehearsing over the last couple of days has been exhausting for this observer, […]
May 10th, 2014
Who: Ottawa Bach Choir, Lisette Canton, conductor, Jennifer Loveless, organ Where: St. Matthew’s Church Reviewed on: Saturday, May 10, 2014 – 8 PM OTTAWA — Lisette Canton and her Ottawa Bach Choir concluded their 12th season Saturday evening with an eclectic program that will form the backbone of their five-city European tour in June. There was only one work by Bach, but a feast of music from every century from the 16th through the 20th […]
March 8th, 2014
Who: Ottawa Bach Choir, Lisette Canton, conductor Where: Knox Presbyterian Church Reviewed on: Saturday, March 8, 2014 – 8 PM OTTAWA — The music of the cultural movement of the English Renaissance, more or less contemporary with the Tudor era, reached some of the greatest heights of its time. At its best, it bears comparison with the work of De Lassus, Victoria and the other major continental polyphonists. English music would not be so distinguished […]
November 30th, 2012
Who: Ottawa Bach Choir, Lisette Canton, conductor, with Ensemble Caprice Where: St. Matthew’s Church Reviewed on: Saturday, November 30, 2013 – 8 PM OTTAWA — For its season opener, the Ottawa Bach Choir presented an evening of music by four major Baroque composers and one minor one. The minor one, though, bore the name of Bach. That’s no small distinction and there’s no denying that he had a share if the family talent. The first […]
August 29th, 2012
Ottawa Bach Choir & Baroque Orchestra / Lisette Canton Canto 2011—55 minutes This program is in honor of the Ottawa Bach Choir’s 10th anniversary. It’s a well constructed program that begins and ends with JS Bach, with the pieces arranged chronologically in between and encompassing modern times, the most recent composer being Eric Whitacre, who was born in 1970. The first Bach piece is a wedding cantata from the young […]
January 14th, 2012
Ottawa Bach Choir, Lisette Canton, conductor (Canto) This season marks the 10th anniversary of the Ottawa Bach Choir and the release of this CD is part of the celebrations. It begins and ends with the music of J.S. Bach, Cantata no. 196 and the motet Der Geist hilft unsrer Schwachheit auf respectively, and includes music by Monteverdi, Buxtehude and Messiaen among others. In addition to authoritative and beautiful accounts of […]
January 24th, 2009
Soloists, Ottawa Bach Choir, Lisette Canton, conductor (OBC) January 24, 2009 Two of J.S. Bach’s best known choral cantatas make up this collection, together with the eponymous motet Jesu, meine Freude. Four excellent soloists — soprano Agnes Zsigovics, counter-tenor Daniel Taylor, tenor Benjamin Butterfield and bass Daniel Lichti — make substantial and individual contributions to the enterprise, with Butterfield’s ever-beautiful singing a particular pleasure. A fine little baroque orchestra was […]
