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Thursday & Friday October 1 & 2
Salle Claude-Champagne
Guest Conductors: Jaap ter Linden, Cellist (Netherlands) and Jeanne Lamon, Violinist (Canada)
What better way to highlight the 250th anniversary of the great Handel’s death than to bring together Canada’s two most renowned baroque orchestras conducted by two outstanding conductors. For this concert event, Arion and Tafelmusik will join forces forming one large orchestra of over 50 musicians to play the dazzling score written for the Royal Fireworks. The programme also includes the instrumental suite from Rameau’s last opera, Les Paladins, a lyric comedy based on a fable by La Fontaine set somewhere between enchantment and entertainment.
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C.P.E. Bach: Concertos & Symphonies
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Friday & Saturday November 20 & 21
Salle Claude-Champagne
Guest Conductors: Gary Cooper, Harpsichordist (Great Britain)
The second among Johann Sebastian Bach’s four musician sons, Telemann’s godson, and source of inspiration for Mozart and Haydn, Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach indeed made his mark on the instrumental music of his era. This remarkable composer himself said, “A musician cannot move anyone unless he himself is moved.” He was associated with Empfindsamkeit (sensitivity), a musical current in reaction to the rationalism of the time. The British conductor and harpsichordist Gary Cooper will lead you on a discovery of his work via symphonies and concertos.
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Purcell: Incidental Musicke
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Thursday & Saturday February 11 & 13 Sunday February 14
Redpath Hall
Guest Conductors: Elizabeth Wallfisch, violinist (Australy)
Purcell dabbled in nearly all the musical genres, both vocal and instrumental, thanks to his complete musicianship, his overflowing inspiration and his great sense for innovation. This powerful musical dramatist was equally at ease with operas, masques and semi-operas (as English Restoration operas were known) but this Englishman also left us numerous musical scores for the theatre written to enhance the stagecraft of his contemporaries. Step into this multi-faceted universe led by the guest violinist and conductor Elizabeth Wallfisch, a musician of rare talent and contagious energy.
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J.S.Bach: Cantatas and Concertos
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Thursday & Friday March 11 & 12
Salle Claude-Champagne
Guest Conductors: Alex Weiman, Harpsichordist (Canada)
Soloist: Christine Brandes, soprano (USA)
“Whoever sings prays double” wrote Luther so it is not by chance that in Bach’s immense production cantatas take a place of the first rank. Whether religious, like Cantata No. 199, or secular, like No. 299, their expressivity and universality grabs us. Soprano Christine Brandes, under the direction of Alex Weimann, will demonstrate. You will also hear Mr. Weimann, on the harpsichord in the Triple Concerto for Flute, Violin and Harpsichord from the Brandenburg Concerto No. 5.
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Vivaldi: The Four Seasons
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Thursday & FridayApril 30
Salle Pierre-Mercure
Guest Conductor and Soloist: Stefano Montanari, violinist (Italy)
The Four Seasons has become beyond doubt Vivaldi’s most popular work. A master of the violin himself, the composer was instinctively drawn to passages best suited to a violinist’s fingers, the instrument’s most sonorous registers and a brilliant and incisive bow technique. Like a poet, he paints nature with vivacity and, beyond that, with accuracy. To fully experience this music Arion is bringing you the brilliant Italian violinist Stefano Montanari to be our guest conductor and soloist.
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