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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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 no 9 in C major, D. 944, « La Grande » (48 min)
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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.
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Also: Maurice Ravel’s La valse and Pierre Mercure’s Kaléidoscope.
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
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)
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
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
The Orchestre symphonique du Conservatoire de musique de Montréal comes to the Maison symphonique with 450 musicians and singers on stage! A crowds on stage, and a crowd in the hall to hear two modern works in full swing: Carmina Burana, by Carl Orf, and Igor Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring. Under the direction of Jacques Lacombe, the Orchestre symphonique du Conservatoire will be joined by the I Musici de Montréal ensemble, the Chœur du Conservatoire, the Joseph-François-Perrault High School Choir and the Montreal Children’s Choir.
ARTISTS AND PROGRAM
Conservatoire de musique de Montréal Symphony Orchestra
450 musicians and singers
Conductor: Jacques Lacombe
Soloists : Aline Kutan (soprano), Antoine Bélanger (tenor) and Alexandre Sylvestre (bass baritone)
Carl Orff: Carmina Burana
Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring
Charlie Chaplin’s The Gold Rush is a masterpiece of humour and social critique about the famous Klondike era. This classic silent film is, of course, suitable for projection with live soundtrack in front of a live audience, and this is where the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Timothy Brock, comes into play. The American maestro is a specialist in music composed in the ’20s and ’30s, particularly designed for silent-film accompaniment, and it is precisely for his high skills in that area that he was recruited. Hop in the car… we’re off to the Yukon!
Montreal Symphony Orchestra
Timothy Brock, conductor
Simultaneous projection
Right from his debut in the ’80s, he’s dazzled the most demanding music lovers on the planet, far beyond the classical sphere. There is no doubt that Leonidas Kavakos has become one of the great living violinists in the known universe. A regular guest of the MSO since the Dutoit era, this time the Greek supervirtuoso will play the Violin Concerto No. 1 by the great Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich. It will be conducted by the young French maestro Lionel Bringuier, also back in Montreal after making a strong impression in 2018.
PROGRAM
Montreal Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Lionel Bringuier
Violin: Leonidas Kavakos
Esa-Pekka Salonen, Helix
Shostakovich, Violin concerto No. 1 in A minor, Op. 77
Ravel, Valses nobles et sentimentales
Florent Schmitt, La tragédie de Salomé, Op. 50
We may frown on his acquaintances with Vladimir Putin’s regime, but Valery Gergiev is nonetheless one of the great maestros of our time. Montreal music lovers have witnessed his genius on a few occasions, including appearances with the Mariinsky Orchestra of Saint-Petersburg, which he conducts with an iron fist, but also with extraordinary refinement and astounding mastery. This time we’ll have the opportunity to see Gergiev at work with the MSO, which suggests a very special relationship with this exceptional maestro. What about Bruckner’s Symphony No. 9? What place will he give to Hungarian virtuoso Kristóf Baráti, guest soloist in Mendelssohn’s indispensable Violin Concerto No. 2? All hopes are high, and this is one of the most eagerly awaited concerts of the season.
ARTISTS AND PROGRAM
Montreal Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Valery Gergiev
Violin: Kristóf Baráti
Mendelssohn, Violin Concerto pour violon No. 2 in E minor, Op. 64
Bruckner, Symphony No. 9 in D minor, WAB 109