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Review: Les Concerts Populaires (July 8 and 12)

By Kiersten van Vliet on 13 July 2016 Concert Reviews, Musical Theatre, Musique populaire, Musique québécoise, Orchestral, Strings, Vocal

Established from an initiative by Mayor Jean Drapeau 52 years ago, Les Concerts Populaires de Montreal strives to present high-quality classical music to Montreal citizens. Now a bulwark of arrondissement Hochelaga-Maisonneuve’s summer season, Les Concerts Populaires, in collaboration with the Comité Musique Maisonneuve, offers five star-studded selections in the shadow of the Olympic tower at the Centre Pierre-Charbonneau. This year, their normal Thursday night schedule is interrupted by the 2016 Jeux du Québec, so it is more important than ever to plan your musical evenings. The eclectic series embodies a true democratization of music. On both evenings the atmosphere was…

Daily News Roundup: 7 July 2016

By Kiersten van Vliet on 7 July 2016 Canadian Music, Circus, Daily News Roundup, Opera, Orchestral, Scena Jazz, Strings

+ The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble is coming to Cinéma du Parc on July 29. The movie will be shown in its original English with French subtitles. (French) + Canada’s History Society and Library and Archives Canada team up to explore Canada’s musical legacy with “Sounds Like History” podcast. + Should we cut the classics? The New York Times’ Michael Cooper weighs in about shortening operas. “After several decades in which the trend has been toward longer, uncut operas — drawing on the work of scholars to restore rarely performed passages, and putting a…

Jacques Lacombe. Photo by Fred Stucker

Daily News Roundup: 5 July 2016

By Kiersten van Vliet on 5 July 2016 Arts Industry, Choral, Daily News Roundup, Musique populaire, Orchestral, Piano, Scena Jazz

+ Read Jeanne Hourez’s review of Nicholas Angelich’s latest release of Liszt, Schumann, and Chopin. (French) + Jacques Lacombe was invited to the Tanglewood Music Festival for the third consecutive year. He will lead the Boston Symphony Orchestra with soloist Joshua Bell on July 8, and Orff’s Carmina Burana on July 9, followed the next day by a concert with the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra with a program of Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet and Schumann’s Third Symphony. (French) + 53 years ago today, the Beatles invaded America with “From Me to You.” + In light of the ongoing Montreal Jazz…

Wilfrid Pelletier and the OSM (1963), City of Montreal Archives

This Day in Music – Happy Birthday Wilfrid Pelletier

By Michele Duguay on 20 June 2016 Orchestral, This Day in Music

The first artistic director of the OSM, conductor and pianist Wilfrid Pelletier, was born in Montréal on this day in 1896. In 1966, the largest room in the Place des Arts was named after him. Pelletier is also known for beginning the OSM in the Parks tradition, which is still alive today. You can see the OSM in Chartier-De Lotbinière park in Rigaud on July 26 and Poly-Aréna park in Brossard on the 27. Assistant conductor Dina Gilbert will return to lead a program of Russian symphonic works by Glinka, Borodin, Glazunov, Prokofiev, Tchaikovsky, and Mussorgsky, featuring 2010 OSM Competition winner…

Jean-Philippe Tremblay. Photo Alain Lefort

Orchestre de la Francophonie at 15

By Jeanne Hourez on 1 June 2016 Arts Industry, Choral, Interviews, Orchestral

The Orchestre de la Francophonie will celebrate its 15th anniversary this summer. The program for the evening, which will take place at la Maison symphonique on August 7th, took some careful consideration. In the end, Artistic Director Jean-Philippe Tremblay chose Mahler’s Symphony No. 2, “Resurrection.” “We chose this extraordinary work after considering what the musicians have been wanting to do for the last few years, although Mahler’s compositions require a very large number of musicians which is not always easy to find,” states Tremblay. “Moving from shadow into light, being very demanding of the musicians, this symphony is rewarding in its…

CD Review: Stokowski Transcriptions

By Jeanne Hourez on 1 June 2016 CD and Book Reviews, Classical Music, Orchestral

Stokowski Transcriptions Bach, Tchaikovsky, Wagner, Mussorgsky, Stokowski, Purcell, Boccherini Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, José Serebrier Naxos 2016. 8.578305. 1 hr 1 min 28 s. Stokowski’s arrangements need no introduction, such is their fame in the musical world. This renowned conductor orchestrated a number of canonical works, the most notable being the Toccata and Fugue in G minor by J.S. Bach, familiar to many of us from Disney’s Fantasia. Someone close to Stokowski was required to match the high calibre of his work. Not only is José Serebrier one of the most recorded conductors in the world, but he was an associate of…

Etienne Dupuis (Simon Doucet) Photo: Yves Renaud

This Week in Montreal (May 23–29)

By Kiersten van Vliet on 23 May 2016 Choral, Contemporary, Opera, Orchestral, This Week in Montreal

War Requiem at the Maison Symphonique Kent Nagano and the OSM with the OSM chorus present Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem May 25 and 28 at 8:00 pm and 29 at 2:30 pm at Maison Symphonique. Soloists include soprano Catherine Naglestad, tenor Ian Bostridge, and baritone Russell Braun, who is replacing Thomas Hampson for health reasons.http://www.osm.ca/en/concert/war-requiem Concours Musical International de Montréal The CMIM kicks off this week with Quarter-final rounds May 23–25, and Semi-final rounds May 27 and 28 at Bourgie Hall. Catch masterclasses with judges Ida Kavafian and Pierre Amoyal on Thursday May 26 at 2:30 pm and 7:30 pm, respectively at the Chapelle Historique…

Lebrecht Weekly – Ralph Vaughan Williams: Symphonies 2 and 8 (Onyx)

By Norman Lebrecht on 20 May 2016 Lebrecht Weekly, Orchestral, Romantic

Unless you live in England – and, in most of the country, even if you do – you will have few opportunities to hear live performances of the music of Ralph Vaughan Williams, the dominant national composer between Elgar and Britten. A passing violinist may offer The Lark Ascending and a string orchestra might play VW’s setting of the Tudor tune ‘Greensleeves’, but the meat of this great composer, his symphonic work, is seldom served and then only with apology. There has only ever been one live cycle of the symphonies – by the late Richard Hickox – and the…

Anne Sofie von Otter, photo Ewa-Marie Rundquist

This Week in Montreal (May 16–22)

By Kiersten van Vliet on 16 May 2016 Baroque and Early, Contemporary, Musique québécoise, Orchestral, This Week in Montreal

Final concerts in the SMCQ’s John Rea series Directed by Denis Marleau, Walter Boudreau and Plasirs du clavecin perform Le petit livre des Ravalet, an atypical opera composed by Rea. Period instruments, audio, singers, and actors take the stage. Usine C, May 16, 7 pm. www.smcq.qc.ca The Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra Mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie von Otter and countertenor Andreas Scholl join San Francisco’s Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra to celebrate 30 years at the podium for Nicholas McGegan, the orchestra’s conductor and artistic director. On the program: opera arias and duos and Handel oratorios, as well as a work written by Arvo Pärt…

Arion orchestre baroque

This Week in Montreal (May 9–15)

By Kiersten van Vliet on 9 May 2016 Baroque and Early, Orchestral, This Week in Montreal

End of Season at the Chapelle Historique The Chapelle will close its spring season with pianists Kyoko Hashimoto and Ilya Poletaev playing works by Brahms, Debussy, Mozart, and Rachmaninov. May 15, 3 pm. www.ville.montreal.qc.ca/chapellebonpasteur An Awaited Return and a New Face at Arion To mark his return, violinist and guest conductor Stefano Montanari will draw from the singular repertoire of the sinfonia concertante. Concerti alla Montanari comprises works by Sammartini, Boccherini, and Cambini. Soloist: Kate Bennett Wadsworth, cello. Bourgie Hall, April 8 to 10. The first concert in Montreal by the British harpsichordist and conductor Steven Devine will be the…

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