Montréal

Classical

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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Classical / Contemporary / Romantic

Kent Nagano Conducts Dusapin and Beethoven

by Sarah-Ann Larouche

A joint commission from the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, the Théâtre de La Monnaie/De Munt, Radio France and the Philharmonie de Paris led French composer Pascal Dusapin to begin composing his symphony for organ and orchestra. For this North American premiere presentation, the work will be performed by organist emeritus Olivier Latry. Also on the program, Chasse royale et orage, taken from Hector Berlioz’s opera Les Troyens, as well as Ludwig van Beethoven’s Pastoral, Symphony No. 6, op. 68 in F major.

PROGRAM
Montreal Symphony Orchestra
Kent Nagano: conductor
Olivier Latry: organ
Berlioz: Chasse royale et orage, from Les Troyens
Pascal Dusapin: Symphonie pour orgue et orchestre
Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 in F major, Op. 68 (Pastoral)

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Contemporary

Three Echoes of the Odyssey

by Sarah-Ann Larouche

Presented as part of the Conservatoire de musique de Montréal’s Sunday concert series, this program feature premieres by composers John Plant, Louis Babin and Jean Derome, among others. A graduate of McGill University in composition, John Plant first began composing vocal music, before turning his attention to instrumental music in the last decade. For his part, Louis Babin is known for his playful, sometimes theatrical style. Performers Marie-Josée Simard and Louise Bessette aren’t new to the music of Jean Derome – in 2017, they presented his Tombeau de Marin Mersenne in a Carte Blanche concert for Simard at the Chapelle historique du Bon-Pasteur.

PROGRAM

Marie-Josée Simard, percussion, Louise Bessette, piano

Works by John Plant (premiere), Jean Derome, Louis Babin (premiere)

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Afro-Antillean

Patrimoine musical des îles créoles

by Sarah-Ann Larouche

Lecturer and cultural advisor in music for the Conseil des arts de Montréal, ethnomusicologist Marie-Christine Parent offers a reflection on the transmission and development of the arts of oral tradition, and more specifically the music and dance of the Creole islands. At her side will be percussionist Daniel Bellegarde and the musicians of the Anba Tonèl ensemble. On their eponymous album, they present us with an eclectic instrumentation reflecting, on the one hand, the Caribbean tradition and, on the other hand, the European influence. Beyond the instrumentation, this influence is particularly noticable on the musical level, and eloquently illustrates the various processes of transformation and development that have brought this music to us.

PROGRAM

Speaker: Marie-Christine Parent, ethnomusicologist

Daniel Bellegarde, percussion

Musicians of the Anba Tonèl ensemble

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Classical

Maurice Steger, A Baroque Banquet

by Sarah-Ann Larouche

Internationally renowned flautist Maurice Steger is back in Montreal and conducts Les Violons du Roy’s first concert of 2020, the theme of which is England. Among the works on the program are Henry Purcell’s Chaconne in G Minor and Curtain Tune on a Ground, from his opera Timon of Athens. In their own way, these two works are marked by a certain tragic anguish, a restlessness tempered by the sweetness and lightness of Georg Friedrich Handel’s recorder concerto in F major, after HWV 369, or Gottfried Finger’s A Ground. The ensemble also presents excerpts from Handel’s dance suites HWV 1, 287 and 399, William Babell’s recorder concerto in D major, Op. 3 No. 1, and the recorder concerto in G major after Francesco Geminiani’s Sonata Op. 5 No. 11.

PROGRAM

Les Violons du Roy

Maurice Steger: conductor and recorder player 

Handel: Dance Suite, from HWV 1, 287 and 399

Handel: Concerto for Recorder in F major, after Sonata HWV 369

Purcell: Curtain Tune on a Ground

Purcell: Chaconne in G minor

Finger: A Ground

Babell: Concerto for Recorder in D major, Op. 3 No. 1

Avison: Concerto grosso No. 3 for Two Violins and Cello

Geminiani: Concerto for Recorder in G major after Sonata Op. 5 No. 11

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Afro Latin

Mateo • Tumbao

by Patrick Baillargeon
Classical / Gospel / Modern Classical / Sacred Music

Poems, Prayers and Bliss – Marie-Josée Lord and Hugues Cloutier

by Alexandre Villemaire

Henri Duparc and Ernest Chausson have this in common – they both left their mark on the French musical repertoire through melody, just as their comrades George Gershwin and Leonard Bernstein left their mark on the American songbook through their melodies and the syncretism of their music, combining classical forms and elements of jazz. In a concert bringing together a repertoire she masters, soprano Marie-Josée Lord brings these two contrasting worlds together. Intimate and melancholic in nature, Duparc’s refined melodies complete the cycle Poème de l’amour et de la mer, dedicated by Chausson to Duparc. Irreverent, energetic and sentimental at the same time, Bernstein’s melodies complement those of Gershwin, which echo the resilient and poignant African-American spirituals.

ARTISTS AND PROGRAM

Marie-Josée Lord, soprano

Hugues Cloutier, piano

Henri Duparc : Chanson triste

                         L’invitation au voyage

                         La vie antérieure

Ernest Chausson: Poème de l’amour et de la mer, op. 19

Leonard Bernstein: Five Kids Songs

I Feel Pretty, from West Side Story

George Gershwin: Summertime from Porgy and Bess

Leonard Bernstein: Somewhere from West Side Story

George Gershwin: My Man’s Gone Now, from Porgy and Bess

Spirituals: Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child

Couldn’t Hear Nobody Pray

  He’s Got the Whole World in His Hand

Amazing Grace

Ride On King Jesus

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Blues / Rock

Carlos Veiga

by Michel Rondeau
Classical / Electroacoustic

Electrochoc 5 : Soundwich

by Michel Rondeau

In addition to its festival, which has been held every fall for the past 16 years, Akousma offers year-round discussion-concerts in its Électrochoc series, which aims to familiarize the public with the world of electroacoustic music and celebrate the creativity of the students in the composition and performance classes of its artistic director, Louis Dufort, and his eminent colleague Martin Bédard. This is an opportunity to get to know some budding talents.

The concert is preceded by a lecture at 7:30 p.m., so it’s worth arriving a little earlier.

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Blues / Rock

Duprée Millaire

by Michel Rondeau
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