ARADIA ENSEMBLE

Music and singing are simply gorgeous. - Inkpot.com, Caldara's "Christmas Cantata".

One of the most exciting new groups to emerge in the early music world, the Toronto-based Aradia Ensemble specialises in presenting an eclectic blend of orchestral, operatic and chamber music played on original instruments. The group records for Naxos, for whom it has made more than twenty recordings. With its Artistic Director is Kevin Mallon the ensemble has toured internationally and has a busy local concert season at the Glenn Gould Studio in Toronto. They have made two music videos, one film soundtrack, have collaborated with Isadora Duncan Dancers and Baroque dancers, have co-produced opera and worked with Balinese Gamelan.

While focusing heavily on the repertoire of seventeenth-century France and England, Aradia also performs works by the Italian and German masters of the baroque, as well as contemporary pieces commissioned by the group.

In July 2000 Aradia was the featured ensemble in residence at the New Zealand Chamber Music Festival and in July 2003 performed at Musica nel Chiostro in Tuscany. According to Robert Graves, Aradia is the Estruscan name for the goddess Artemis, twin sister of Apollo. She was sent by the gods to teach mankind to order the music of the natural world into song.

For more information, please visit www.aradia.ca/

Photo Courtesy of Bob Davis

Albums featuring this artist are available for download from ClassicsOnline.com
20 KLASSISKA FAVORITER (20 Classical Favorites)	8.570566
Art & Music: Rembrandt - Music of His Time	8.558118
BACH, J.S.: Christmas Cantatas	8.554825
BAROQUE FOR MEDITATION	8.557792
BOYCE: Symphonies Nos. 1-8, Op. 2	8.557278
BRIDE'S GUIDE TO WEDDING MUSIC FOR CIVIL CEREMONIES (A)	8.570227-28
BUXTEHUDE: Sacred Cantatas	8.557041
CALDARA: Christmas Cantata	8.553772
CHARPENTIER: Messe de Minuit pour Noel / Te Deum	5.110054
CHARPENTIER: Messe de Minuit pour Noel / Te Deum	8.557229
CHARPENTIER: Noels and Christmas Motets	8.554514
CHARPENTIER: Noels and Christmas Motets, Vol. 2	8.557036
CHRISTMAS (THE VERY BEST OF)	8.570344-45
CINEMA CLASSICS 2007	8.556834
Discover Music of the Baroque Era	8.558160-61
DISCOVER OPERA	8.558196-97
DISCOVER THE SYMPHONY (2008 edition)	8.558208-09
FLOWERING OF LOVE, (THE) - Beautiful Arias and Sacred Songs of the Baroque	8.570156-57
HANDEL (THE VERY BEST OF)	8.552109-10
HANDEL: Israel in Egypt (Aradia Ensemble)	8.570966-67
HANDEL: Rinaldo	8.660165-67
HANDEL: Water Music / Music for the Royal Fireworks	5.110115
HANDEL: Water Music / Music for the Royal Fireworks	6.110115
HANDEL: Water Music / Music for the Royal Fireworks	8.557764
HEAVENLY VOICES - BACH, J.S.: Arias	8.557947-48
LULLY: Ballet Music for the Sun King	8.554003
PERFECT WINTER WEDDING	8.557977
PURCELL: Tempest (The)	8.554262
PURCELL: Theatre Music, Vol. 1 - Amphitryon / Sir Barnaby Whigg / The Gordian Knot Unty'd / Circe	8.570149
RAMEAU: Castor et Pollux	8.660118-19
SAMMARTINI, G.B.: Symphonies J-C 4, 9, 16, 23, 36, 62	8.557298
STORY OF BRITISH CLASSICAL MUSIC (THE)	8.558193-94
SVEN GORAN ERIKSSONS - Klassiska Favoriter	8.503135
VANHAL: Missa Pastoralis / Missa Solemnis	8.555080
VIVALDI (THE VERY BEST OF)	8.552101-02
VIVALDI, A.: Sacred Music, Vol. 1 (Aradia Ensemble)	8.557445
VIVALDI, A.: Sacred Music, Vol. 2 (Aradia Ensemble)	8.557852
VIVALDI, A.: Sacred Music, Vol. 3 (Aradia Ensemble)	8.570445
VIVALDI: Dixit Dominus / Gloria	5.110064
VIVALDI: Dixit Dominus / Gloria / Nulla in mundo pax sincera	8.571072
VIVALDI: Dixit Dominus, RV 595 / Gloria, RV 588	6.110064
VIVALDI: Griselda	8.660211-13
WASSENAER: Concerti Armonici	8.555384
World of Early Music	8.554770-71