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Classical / Modern Classical

(CANCELLED) Marc-André Hamelin • Louis Langrée • OSM

by Alain Brunet

Back in Montréal, the great pianist Marc-André Hamelin performs Liszt’s masterful Concerto No. 2, premiered in Weimar in January 1857, with a student of the German composer, Hans Bronsart von Schellendorff, as soloist. No less than 163 years later, Quebec’s super-virtuoso has dedicated himself to serving and transcending this work by Liszt, one of the most important composers for the piano during the 19th century. Musical Director of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, French maestro Louis Langrée conducts the MSO for the first time, with Brahms and Schoenberg also on the program.

ARTISTS & PROGRAM 
Orchestre symphonique de Montréal
Louis Langrée, conductor 
Marc-André Hamelin, piano
Brahms, Tragic Overture, Op. 81 (14 min)
Liszt, Piano Concerto No. 2 in A major, S. 125 (21 min)
Schoenberg, Pelléas et Mélisande, Op. 5 (41 min)

Concerto No. 2 of Liszt by Marc-André Hamelin on YouTube

Classical / Jazz

(CANCELLED) Sérénade ensemble and jazz combo

by Alain Brunet

Under the supervision of maestro Véronique Lacroix, the Conservatoire de musique de Montréal’s Sérénade ensemble presents works built around the use of wind instruments, c/o Franz Schubert, Eugène Bozza, Darius Milhaud, Max Reger, Johann Nepomuk Hummel and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Further proof that jazz and classical music are increasingly connected, double bassist Éric Lagacé will lead a jazz combo made up of students from the Conservatoire to play standards taken from the American repertoire, interspersed with improvisations, as one might imagine.

PROGRAM:
Octuor à vent Sérénade, director, Véronique Lacroix
Works by Schubert, Bozza, Milhaud, Reger, Hummel and Mozart
Jazz combo, director, Éric Lagacé
Jazz standards and improvisation

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Classical / Contemporary / Minimalist

(Cancelled) Explorer of Dissonance and Sacred Art

by Michel Rondeau

Bound by a somewhat intriguing theme, three very different works. First, Philip Glass’ Quartet No. 3, originally composed for the soundtrack of the film Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters, American filmmaker Paul Schrader’s 1985 biographyof the Japanese author. This is followed by a new work by Montrealer Maxime McKinley and, by Hungarian composer Henryk Gorecki – a complete string quartet by whom Quatuor Molinari presented in September, which will be recorded and released next fall to commemorate the tenth anniversary of his death on November 12 – the Quartet No. 2, Quasi una Fantasia. 

PROGRAM

Philip Glass : String Quartet No. 3, Mishima

Maxime McKinley : (new work)

Henryk Gorecki : String Quartet No. 2, Quasi una Fantasia

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Ambient / Experimental / Contemporary / Post-Minimalist

(Cancelled) Raphael Weinroth-Browne

by Michel Rondeau

He’s a member of the Kamancello duo with Shahriyar Jamshid, a player of the Kurdish kamancheh (a bowed string instrument with a timre similar to a violin’s), and has participated in more than a hundred recordings, many of them for film and television. He’s performed at several festivals, played with Pauline Oliveros and Dutch cellist Ernst Reijseger, recorded and toured with the Norwegian progressive rock/metal band Leprous… but had no solo album to his credit. Tonight’s concert is just the occasion for its release. The music is intimate, even enveloping, with rich ambiences that unfold in space like the northern lights we sometimes see undulating in the summer sky.

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Classical

(CANCELLED) Beethoven’s Chamber Music – Concert II

by Alain Brunet

The 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth is the occasion for so many special programs around the world. Arte Musica offers us a superb selection of Beethoven, including the following series of chamber music concerts.

PROGRAM

Trio Grimal Gastinel Cassard  

David Grimal, violin

Anne Gastinel, cello

Philippe Cassard, piano

Strauss McNabney Haimovitz Trio

Axel Strauss, violin

Douglas McNabney, viola

Matt Haimovitz, cello

String trio No. 4 in D major, Op. 9 No. 2

Piano Trio No. 3 in C minor, Op. 1 No. 3

String Quintet in C major, Op. 29

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Classical

Krzysztof Jablonski

by Alain Brunet

A guest of the Dorothy Morton Visiting Artist Series, pianist Krzysztof Jablonski is a big catch. The 54-year-old Polish virtuoso was a laureate of the 1985 Frederic Chopin International Piano Competition in Warsaw. Early in his career, he was a champion at international competitions in Milan, Palm Beach, Monza, Dublin, New York and Calgary, not to mention his gold medal at the Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Competition in Tel Aviv. Over the past three decades, Jablonski has been a soloist with many orchestras under the most eminent conductors – Gergiev, Boreyko, Semkow, Kaspszyk, Maksymiuk, Nowak, Brueggen, etc. – and has taken part in the International Piano Competition in Tel Aviv.

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Classical

(CANCELLED) Beethoven’s chamber music at Bourgie Hall – Concert I

by Alain Brunet

The 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth is the occasion for so many special programs around the world. Arte Musica offers us a superb selection of Beethoven, including the following series of chamber music concerts. The first program of this series offers us two trios. The first is the trio of three French virtuosos, violinist David Grimal, cellist Anne Gastinel and pianist Philippe Cassard, and the second is the Montreal trio of violinist Axel Strauss, violist Douglas McNabney and cellist Matt Haimovitz. Two trios and a quartet on the program, adding up to an intersection of perspectives. The two trios will also share the same stage on March 14, for another program.

PROGRAMME 

PROGRAM

Trio Grimal Gastinel Cassard  

David Grimal, violin

Anne Gastinel, cello

Philippe Cassard, piano

Strauss McNabney Haimovitz Trio

Axel Strauss, violin

Douglas McNabney, viola

Matt Haimovitz, cello

String trio No. 5 in C minor, Op. 9 No. 3

Piano quartet in E-Flat major, Op. 16B

Piano trio No. 5 in B major, Op. 70 No. 1, Ghost

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