Aradia Ensemble

The Aradia Ensemble is a period-instrument orchestra and vocal ensemble of 30 or so core members. Based in Toronto, it is best known for performances and recordings of 17th and 18th century French and English works by such composers as Charpentier, Lully, Rameau, Purcell, William Boyce, and Samuel Arnold. But it is hardly limited to those spheres, as its repertory takes in works by Vivaldi, Handel, J.S. Bach, Haydn, Cimarosa, and little known composers like Franz Beck, Václav Pichl, and Johann Baptist Vanhal. It also performs contemporary works by such composers as Canadian Ro...