(Cancelled) Jean-François Bélanger and his quartet
by Michel Rondeau
Photo credit : Laurence Campbell
Jean-François Bélanger’s favourite instruments are not of the common variety. They include the nyckelharpa, the kontrabasharpa, the tenorharpa – a kind of keyed fiddle used in traditional Swedish music – as well as the Hardanger violin, a Norwegian variant. Over the past three years, Bélanger, who has enlisted the services of some 20 hand-picked musicians, has been fine-tuning his second album, Les entrailles de la montagne, devoted to Scandinavian influences and instruments. He is now ready to bring it out on stage.
Charles Richard-Hamelin à the Maison de la culture Claude-Léveillée
by Laurence Gauvin
The Maison de la culture Claude-Léveillée welcomes the famous Quebec pianist Charles Richard-Hamelin for an intimate piano concert. Winner of the silver medal and the Krystian-Zimerman Prize at the 2015 Frédéric-Chopin International Piano Competition in Warsaw, Charles Richard-Hamelin is, at the age of only 30, a renowned pianist acclaimed around the world. During this concert, the audience will be able to enjoy works by Beethoven, Mendelssohn and then Chopin: a romantic repertoire that will undoubtedly reflect the best qualities of the performer. It should be noted here that Richard-Hamelin’s discography contains not only a recording of Chopin’s two piano concertos – dating from 2019, with the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal under the baton of his maestro, Kent Nagano – but also two discs dedicated solely to the piano repertoire of the same composer, both of which have been recognized and honoured by critics. So a promising program is in store for February 27, performed by one of our greatest pianists.
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