Beethoven et Mozart à la Maison Symphonique: l’Orchestre métropolitain dirigé par Jane Glover

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Les rythmes militaires, l’ampleur jusque-là inégalée, le piano qui exprime librement des idées de grandeur auxquelles l’orchestre répond avec enthousiasme, voilà qui a sans doute valu au Concerto pour piano no 5 de Beethoven son surnom « Empereur ». Jane Glover, cheffe invitée de l’Orchestre Métropolitain, offre son interprétation de cette œuvre légendaire.

Pourquoi bouder son plaisir! Fier et conscient de son talent, Mozart compose pour le public parisien une symphonie conçue pour lui plaire. Grandiose dans ses effets, audacieuse dans son utilisation de la clarinette et tout simplement débordante d’idées mélodiques, la Symphonie no 31 respire le charme et l’exubérance de la jeunesse. Avec un talent de mélodiste qui n’est pas sans rappeler celui de Mozart, le Chevalier de Saint-George, ce compositeur fils d’un noble français et d’une esclave guadeloupéenne, met les cordes à l’honneur dans sa pétillante Symphonie no 1.

CHEVALIER DE SAINT-GEORGE, Symphonie n^o 1
BEETHOVEN, Concerto pour piano n^o 5, « Empereur »
Mozart, Symphonie n^o 31, « Paris »

With its military rhythms, unprecedented scale and expressive piano in dialogue with an enthusiastic orchestra, there’s no question as to why Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5 earned its “Emperor” nickname. Conductor Jane Glover offers her interpretation of this legendary piece.

Why deny yourself pleasure? Confident and proud of his talent, Mozart composed a symphony that he knew Parisian audiences would love. Grandiose in its effects, bold in its use of clarinet and overflowing with melodic ideas, Symphony No. 31 radiates with the charm and exuberance of youth. And with melodic talent reminiscent of Mozart’s, Chevalier de Saint-George—a composer born to a French nobleman and African slave in Guadeloupe—puts strings at centre stage in his dazzling Symphony No. 1.

CHEVALIER DE SAINT-GEORGE, Symphony No. 1
BEETHOVEN, Piano Concerto No. 5 “Emperor”
MOZART, Symphony No. 31 “Paris”

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Classical

Le Requiem de Mozart à la Maison Symphonique

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Il est impossible de résister à l’œuvre ultime de Mozart tant semblent inépuisables sa charge émotionnelle et son humanité. Bernard Labadie, La Chapelle de Québec et Les Violons du Roy se réunissent pour reprendre l’œuvre, cette fois avec des pièces encore jamais présentées dans leurs programmations : la Meistermusik, également de Mozart, et la Symphonie funèbre de Kraus.

J.M. Kraus, Symphonie funèbre en do mineur, VB 148
W.A. Mozart, Meistermusik, K. 477
W.A. Mozart, Requiem en ré mineur, K. 626 (révisé et complété par R. D. Levin)

Mozart’s final opus is imbued with an enduring emotional power and humanity that make it impossible to resist. Bernard Labadie, La Chapelle de Québec, and Les Violons du Roy revisit this beloved work in conjunction with two never-before-programmed pieces : Meistermusik, also by Mozart, and Kraus’s Symphonie funèbre.

J.M. Kraus, Symphonie funèbre en do mineur, VB 148
W.A. Mozart, Meistermusik, K. 477
W.A. Mozart, Requiem en ré mineur, K. 626 (révisé et complété par R. D. Levin)

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Classical

Concertos russes et poèmes symphoniques français

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Ce concert, bâti selon une forme en arche, s’ouvre et se ferme avec deux œuvres françaises du début du XXe siècle aux images très évocatrices, de la féerie orientale de Dukas aux mirages aquatiques de Debussy. Au centre, le pianiste Daniil Trifonov interprète deux concertos russes : celui de Schnittke, avec son remarquable travail sur les textures ainsi que celui de Prokofiev, avec ses atmosphères changeantes. Un voyage musical riche en couleurs, en contrastes et en métamorphoses sous la direction de Rafael Payare.

Dukas, La péri (19 min)
Schnittke, Concerto pour piano et orchestre à cordes (26 min)
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Prokofiev, Concerto pour piano n^o 1 en ré bémol majeur, op. 10 (16 min)
Debussy, La mer (23 min)

Constructed as an arch, this concert is framed by two early 20^th-century French works that bear deeply evocative imagery: Dukas’ Orientalist enchantment and Debussy’s aquatic mirages. At its centre, pianist Daniil Trifonov performs two Russian concertos: one by Schnittke offering a remarkable play of textures and another by Prokofiev, unfurling with characteristic shifting atmospheres. Here is a richly coloured musical journey of contrasts and metamorphoses, conducted by Rafael Payare.

Dukas, La péri (The Fairy, 19 min.)
Schnittke, Concerto for Piano and String Orchestra (26 min.)
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Prokofiev, Piano Concerto no. 1 in D-flat major, op. 10 (16 min.)
Debussy, La mer (23 min.)

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Classical

McGill Symphony Orchestra at Place des Arts

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The McGill Symphony Orchestra brings its trademark energy and artistry to the Maison symphonique! Maestro Alexis Hauser closes his 20^th season leading the outstanding student orchestra in an exciting program of Beethoven and Mahler.

Professor Axel Strauss joins the ensemble as a soloist in Beethoven’s one-and-only Violin Concerto, a lyrical and transcendent masterpiece. The beloved 4^th Symphony by Mahler explores themes of childhood and innocence with soprano Christina Thanisch-Smith singing the stunning final movement.

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN, Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61
GUSTAV MAHLER, Symphony No. 4 in G major
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Classical

A Great Wave : Alma and La Mer at Maison Symphonique

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The sun rises over La Mer, Debussy’s most well-known orchestral work. Seamless symphonic colours, texture, and nuance paint the changing seas. In three sketches, La Mer presents vivid portraits of light, violent winds, and a return to peace at sea.

Paola PRESTINI, Barcarola
Alma MAHLER, Seven Lieder (orch. Matthews)
DEBUSSY, La Mer

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Classical

Michael Tilson Thomas : Monumental

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During his long-awaited residency at the OSM, the great American conductor Michael Tilson Thomas was to conduct Grieg’s “Two Elegiac Songs” and then lead us into Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 3, a masterpiece of the concerto repertoire that is by turns scathing, lyrical, meditative and then explosive, and that puts the 21-year-old Russian pianist Alexander Malofeev to the test. Schubert’s Symphony No. 9, in a peak of majesty and grandeur, closes this monumental program.

However, the OSM announced on Tuesday that Russian pianist Alexander Malofeev would not perform the Prokofiev Concerto on March 9, 10 and 13, given the context that we know and that has been widely commented on in the public space. “The Tragic Overture” by Brahms will therefore replace the performance of the gifted soloist.

ARTISTES ET OEUVRES

Orchestre symphonique de Montréal

Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor

Brahms, Ouverture tragique, op. 81 (13 min)

Grieg, Two Elegiac Melodies, op. 34 : II. « Våren » [Last Spring] (5 min)

Schubert, Symphony n^o 9 in C major, D. 944, « La Grande » (48 min)

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Neoclassical

Music at the Movies: Morricone, Williams and more !

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The FILMharmonic Orchestra returns for another epic adventure in this second voyage across cinematic history, in a variation of last year’s Music at the Movies. Rediscover the soundtracks of renowned classics: The Good the Bad and the Ugly, The Godfather, Dances with Wolves, and many more! The concert will feature four pieces sung by guest soprano Sarah Dufresene, who will enchant the audience with her extraordinary virtuosity and musical sensitivity.

Also among the repertoire are masterpieces recorded for the FILMharmonic’s recent album, Music at the Movies. These include the themes from Schindler’s List, Cinema Paradiso, and Psycho! Forty musicians, led by talented conductor Francis Choinière, will bring to life the magic that made these films so memorable in the hearts and minds of generations.

Details

Producer / Presenter : GFN Productions
Venue : Maison symphonique
Interpretation : Orchestre FILMharmonique | Conductor : Francis Choinière | Soprano: Sarah Dufresne
Duration : 1h35 with an intermission

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Classical

OSM’s opening concert: Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony

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Also: Maurice Ravel’s La valse and Pierre Mercure’s Kaléidoscope.

Classical / Modern Classical

(CANCELLED) Gerald Finley and Jean-Yves Thibaudet

by Michel Rondeau

Montreal-born Canadian baritone Gerald Finley has had the opportunity, over the course of his 35-year career, to sing at some of the world’s greatest opera houses, and to lend his voice to a raft of critically acclaimed recordings, including works by Maurice Ravel, whose Histoires naturelles he will perform at the Maison symphonique. Pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet is not to be outdone. A native of Lyon, this specialist in the Romantic repertoire and French impressionist composers has enjoyed a brilliant concert career. He has also distinguished himself by performing arias with opera singers, most notably with Cecilia Bartoli.

PROGRAM
Gerald Finley, baritone
Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano
Schumann, Dichterliebe (A Poet’s Love), Op. 48
Ravel, Histoires naturelles
Fauré, Mélodies
Other works to be confirmed

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Classical / Modern Classical / Romantic

(CANCELLED) Orchestre Métropolitain • Nicolas Ellis • Martin Carli : « Fire and Water: Génial ! »

by Alain Brunet

Benevolent or destructive, useful or harmful, fire and water are brought together in this programme assembled by the Metropolitan Orchestra, under the direction of young maestro Nicolas Ellis this time. Russian composer Igor Stravinsky’s orchestral suite for ballet, The Firebird, the unpredictable currents of La Moldau by the Czech composer Bedřich Smetana, Sirènes by Frenchman Claude Debussy, with flutist Kaïla Stephanos as soloist – these are all masterpieces of pyric or aquatic inspiration, to be contemplated with the MO, all supplemented by bits of scientific information, courtesy of host Martin Carli.

ARTISTS AND PROGRAM
Fire and Water: Génial!
Metropolitan Orchestra
Conductor: Nicolas Ellis
Bedřich Smetana: La Moldau
Maurice Ravel: Une Barque sur l’océan
Claude Debussy: Nocturnes, III. Sirènes
Igor Stravinsky: Firebird Suite (1919)

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Baroque / Classical / Classical Period

(CANCELLED) Jane Glover • Orchestre Métropolitain

by Alain Brunet

English maestra and musicologist Jane Glover is a great Mozartian, and that’s exactly why she’s conducting the Metropolitan Orchestra’s performances of Wolfgang Amadeus’ Horn Concerto No. 1, and his Symphony No. 31, known as Paris. The Quebec horn player Louis-Philippe Marsolais is the soloist recruited for this Mozart concerto, as well as for the premiere of the Horn Concerto by Simon Bourget, himself a horn player at the MO.

ARTISTS AND PROGRAM
Orchestre Métropolitain
Jane Glover, conductor
Louis-Philippe Marsolais, french horn
Georg Friederich Haendel : Water Music
Mozart : Horn Concerto No. 1
Haydn : Symphony No. 85 La Reine
Simon Bourget : Concerto pour cor (premiere)
Mozart : Symphony No. 31 Paris

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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