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 […]

Caroline Léonardelli, harp: Ottawa Bach Choir, Lisette Canton, conductor (Centaur Classics) This is one of the most refreshing and delightful Christmas CDs to come along in years. Ottawa harpist Caroline Léonardelli joins forces with the female voices of Lisette Canton’s Ottawa Bach Choir and vocal soloists Kathleen Radke, Julie Nesrallah and Dayna Lamothe, as well as percussionist J.S. Lacombe, in a program drawn from traditional and modern sources. The centrepiece […]

Ottawa Bach Choir, Lisette Canton, conductor (OBC) The Ottawa Bach Choir has been delighting local and international audiences for most of its barely three-year existence, and has now released its first CD. It includes major works by Bach and Schutz and shorter ones by Telemann and Buxtehude. The most interesting of the lot is undoubtedly the Schutz German requiem, entitled Musikalische Exequien. Conductor Lisette Canton leads the choir and a […]