MONTREAL SERIES
A total of seven musical programs: five during our regular season and two off-series concerts at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts' Bourgie Hall.
1642, the English Civil War. King Charles II is in exile in France at the court of his first cousin, Louis XIV. There, he discovers the music of Versailles, which enthralls him such that it will follow him back to England in 1660. Many French...
Bourgie Hall 1339 Rue Sherbrooke O, Montréal, QC H3G 1G2
This concert proposes to (re)discover two contrasting Masses heard in France during the reigns of Louis XVI and of Napoleon. Composed by Mozart in 1791 on his deathbed at the behest of a mysterious character, his Requiem was triumphantly...
Bourgie Hall 1339 Rue Sherbrooke O, Montréal, QC H3G 1G2
As an original way to celebrate Valentine’s Day, Arion presents under the inspired direction of Australian violinist Sophie Gent a felicitous mix of Italian and English baroque concerti grossi, in a program that weaves together music and poems...
During a brief respite from his busy Roman sojourn, Handel left for Naples from May to July 1708, where he had been commissioned to write the serenata Aci, Galatea e Polifemo for the wedding of the Duke of Alvito and Beatrice di Sanseverino. This...
Bourgie Hall 1339 Rue Sherbrooke O, Montréal, QC H3G 1G2
In 18th-century Paris, Christmas and its sacred and popular repertoire of carols were the joy of family members joining in musical get-togethers, whether in the humblest of homes, in the gilded halls of aristocratic palaces, or in the smoke-filled...
Generous inspiration, melodic breadth, powerful choruses, and a variety of moods are what characterize Messiah, originally composed for Holy Week but since also a Christmas favourite. Handel’s grand oratorio retracing Christ’s passage on Earth did...
Bourgie Hall 1339 Rue Sherbrooke O, Montréal, QC H3G 1G2
Theatricality has always been central to Mozart’s music, even in his instrumental works. Such is the case with his brief Symphony No. 26, written when he was 17, and even more so in his masterful Piano Concerto No. 24, composed at age 30,...
Bourgie Hall 1339 Rue Sherbrooke O, Montréal, QC H3G 1G2
5 musical programs with intermission at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts' Bourgie Hall
As part of the complete Bach cantata series produced by Bourgie Hall, Arion presents four vivid cantatas that aptly illustrate the Leipzig cantor’s sublime ability to convey his faith in humanity redeemed through grace. To present these superb...
Vivaldi—whether exuberant, dramatic, spiritual, or pastoral—is Vivaldi. But, what happens when his works are transformed by the playful spirit of the French? His Four Seasons were already quite in vogue at the Paris Concert Spirituel under the...
Conducted by Julien Chauvin, one of today’s most sought-after baroque musicians and founder of the Parisian orchestra Le Concert de la Loge, Arion crowns this season with a performance of Mozart’s “Jupiter” Symphony, resplendent and majestic, the...
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