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Gregory Charles – Citizen involvement

By Hassan Laghcha on 11 October 2017 Opera, Piano, Vocal

“We have the responsibility that no Mozart be murdered.” The good is achieved through beauty.” This is how Gregory Charles sums up Piano and Voice, the 2017 Cardinal Léger benefit concert he will host with tenor Marc Hervieux on November 5 at Maison symphonique. This major musical charity event — a benefit for the Léger Foundation’s Feed a Child program — also features two young musicians from the Radio-Canada television show Virtuose. This performance benefits from the chemistry between Gregory and Marc. Both artists are characterized by their refusal to compartmentalize artistic work. Their unbounded love for music is part…

World Premiere Recording of André Mathieu: Concerto No. 3, JoAnn Falletta and Alain Lefèvre

By Newswire on 10 October 2017 Classical Music, La Scena Online, Orchestral, Piano, Uncategorized

World Premiere Recording of André Mathieu: Concerto No. 3 features JoAnn Falletta and the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra with Piano Soloist Alain Lefèvre Analekta CD Celebrates the 150th Anniversary of Canada and the 75th Anniversary of Mathieu’s Composition A world premiere recording of André Mathieu: Concerto No. 3, theConcerto de Quebec, paired with George Gershwin’s An American in Paris is now available on Analekta Records featuring acclaimed conductor JoAnn Falletta leading the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra with soloist Alain Lefèvre. The CD debuted as the No. 1 classical album in Canada. Says Falletta: “The pairing of the Mathieu and Gershwin on our Analekta CD celebrates the 150th anniversary of…

Musica Camerata Kicks Off 48th Season

By Ian Cochrane on 18 September 2017 Chamber Music, Classical Music, Concert Reviews, Newswire, Piano, Romantic, Strings, Violin

Musica Camerata kicked off its 48th season with an evening of quartets for piano, violin, viola, and cello. Respected as a premiere Canadian chamber ensemble, Musica Camerata is justifiably proud of its longevity. The concert was held in the resplendent Chapelle historique du Bon-Pasteur where the parterre seating area is usually hydraulically raised to provide theatre style seating. The roughly 100 attendees filled this venue. From this reviewer’s vantage point in the balcony, the acoustics were a little dry for a chamber string ensemble. The instrumentalists on this program were Luis Grinhauz (violin), Victor Fournelle-Blain (viola), Bruno Tobon (cello), and…

Peter Bay, conductor of the Austin Symphony Orchestra. Ralph Barrera/AMERICAN-STATESMAN

Peter Bay’s 20th Austin Symphony Season Begins with French Connection

By Paul E. Robinson on 13 September 2017 Concert Reviews, Orchestral, Piano

Mozart in Paris Poulenc: Suite from “Les Biches” FP36 Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 15 in B flat major K. 450 Poulenc: Concert Champêtre for Harpsichord and Orchestra FP49 Mozart: Symphony No. 31 in D major K. 297 “Paris” Anton Nel, piano & harpsichord Austin Symphony Orchestra/Peter Bay Long Center for the Performing Arts Austin, TX September 9, 2017 Maestro Peter Bay, who hails from Washington, D.C., has made his home in Austin, Texas for the past 20 years. It has been a Golden Age for Austin and for the Austin Symphony (ASO). As the city has grown…

Alain Lefèvre © Caroline Bergeron

Alain Lefèvre: Honorary Patron of the CMIM

By Newswire on 12 September 2017 Arts Industry, Classical, Classical Music, Newswire, Piano, Violin, Vocal

Montréal, Tuesday, September 12, 2017 – The CMIM (Concours musical international de Montréal) is extremely pleased to announce that pianist and composer Alain Lefèvre will act as honorary patron of its annual event. Attracting some of the world’s most promising young singers, pianists and violinists, the CMIM’s next edition will be held from May 27 to June 7 and is dedicated to Voice. A world-renowned virtuoso pianist, Alain Lefèvre has performed in over forty countries in prestigious venues and with the world’s leading conductors and symphony orchestras. He has won numerous prizes, amongst them a Juno, an Opus and ten…

History Reborn: André Mathieu’s Piano Concerto No. 3 at 75

By Kiersten van Vliet on 1 September 2017 150/375, Canadian Music, Interviews, Piano, Quebec Music

By now you’ve probably heard the story of André Mathieu (1929–68). A child prodigy hailed as Canada’s Mozart, Mathieu lived a tragic life and died in obscurity. It was not until the twenty-first century that many were able to experience his music, due in no small part to the tireless work of Québécois pianist-composer Alain Lefèvre. Now, in time for the 75th anniversary of the work, Lefèvre is releasing a new recording of the Piano Concerto No. 3, known commonly as the “Concerto de Québec.” The Concerto de Québec — which Lefèvre recorded himself in 2003 with Yoav Talmi and…

Inon Barnatan (photo: Marco Borggreve)

Inon Barnatan Champions New Fletcher Concerto, Debuts with London Philharmonic, Tours with Minnesota Orchestra in 2017-18

By Newswire on 31 August 2017 Arts Industry, Classical Music, Newswire, Piano

Having just made a late summer debut at the BBC Proms playing Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G with conductor Kazushi Ono and the BBC Symphony, Inon Barnatan – “one of the most admired pianists of his generation” (New York Times) – opens the 2017-18 season performing a new concerto by Alan Fletcher with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl. Barnatan gave the world premiere of the piece earlier in the summer at the Aspen Music Festival, and later in the season he will play it again with the Atlanta Symphony. On New Year’s Eve the pianist performs Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto in Minneapolis with the Minnesota Orchestra led by Osmo…

Lebrecht Weekly – Morton Feldman: For Bunita Marcus (Hyperion)

By Norman Lebrecht on 18 August 2017 CD and Book Reviews, Contemporary, Lebrecht Weekly, Piano

The US composer Bunita Marcus worked for seven years with Morton Feldman and subsequently accused him, after his death, of sexual abuse. Feldman wrote this piece as an act of homage to Marcus. It begins with what appears to be a visit by an extremely unhurried piano tuner and proceeds by its own logic into a sound world where time and motion lose all meaning. It lasts for 72 minutes and 38 seconds and unless it has succeeded in transcending such mundane measurements the experience will probably feel like eternity. The pianist Marc-André Hamelin reports that “the first time I…

LE FESTIVAL DE LANAUDIÈRE’S 40TH ANNIVERSARY! JULY 1 TO AUGUST 6, 2017 – Fourth week

By Newswire on 19 July 2017 Choral, Classical, Classical Music, Newswire, Orchestral, Piano

Joliette, July 19, 2017 – Le Festival de Lanaudière is pleased to welcome you to concerts of the fourth week of its 40th season. On Friday, July 21 at 8 p.m. at the Amphithéâtre Fernand-Lindsay, pianist Marc-André Hamelin takes you into a world of passion and fantasy in sonatas by Haydn, Feinberg and Beethoven, followed by Schumann’s Fantasy Op. 17. The next day, Saturday, July 22 at 8 p.m. at the Amphithéâtre Fernand-Lindsay, the Orchestre Métropolitainunder the direction of Mathieu Lussier performs Mozart’s Overture to The Magic Flute and Symphony No. 41. After intermission, Marc-André Hamelin joins the orchestra for Beethoven’s grandest piano concerto, No. 5 (Emperor). On Sunday, July 23 at 2 p.m. at the Amphithéâtre Fernand-Lindsay, come support the up-and-coming generation by…

Marc-André Hamelin at Le Festival de Lanaudière: Change of Program

By Newswire on 13 June 2017 Newswire, Piano

Joliette, June 13, 2017 – Le Festival de Lanaudière announces a change of program for Marc-André Hamelin’s recital on Friday, July 21 at 8 p.m. at the Amphithéâtre Fernand-Lindsay in Joliette. The new program is as follows: Joseph Haydn – Sonata in C major, Hob. XVI:48 Samuel Feinberg – Sonata No. 2 in A minor, Op. 2 Samuel Feinberg – Sonata No. 1 in A major, Op. 1 Ludwig van Beethoven – Sonata No. 23 in F minor, Op. 57 (Appassionata) Robert Schumann – Fantasy, Op. 17 For more information, please contact the Place des Arts box office at 514-842-2112 or 1-866-842-2112, or visit www.lanaudiere.org.

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