vendredi, 8 août 2025 @ 19:30 – 4:00 – Music fit for a king – Bach’s Musical Offering, written for Frederick the Great, is a collection of musical puzzles that surveys the leading musical genres and techniques of the time and includes pieces for the Prussian king’s own instrument, the flute. The intricate, elegant music on this programme will be performed by internationally-celebrated Canadian […]
jeudi, 7 août 2025 @ 19:30 – 4:00 – Music fit for a king – Bach’s Musical Offering, written for Frederick the Great, is a collection of musical puzzles that surveys the leading musical genres and techniques of the time and includes pieces for the Prussian king’s own instrument, the flute. The intricate, elegant music on this programme will be performed by internationally-celebrated Canadian […]
jeudi, 7 août 2025 @ 13:00 – 14:00 – Oftentimes, there are only figments and fragments of a composer’s work that survive. Join Abraham Ross and Simon Poirier as they dive into unfinished works from early-baroque practices of contrapuntal improvisation. The programme begins in the early baroque with a demonstration on the methods used by Gabrieli, Frescobaldi, and virtually every organist of the time: […]
mardi, 5 août 2025 @ 19:30 – 4:00 – Bach’s music was deeply tied to Lutheran theology, making him less directly influenced by Enlightenment philosophy. However, his work still resonated with certain rationalist and humanist ideas explored by enlightenment thinkers of the time such as Voltaire who believed that the “ascension” of man was not about a literal rise to heaven but about the […]
samedi, 2 août 2025 @ 19:30 – 4:00 – Delight in the playful and witty tunes of the medieval estampie, a dance form that flourished in the 13th and 14th centuries. Flutists Pierre Hamon and Norbert Rodenkirchen accompany this programme with original compositions and charming improvisations, performed on replicas of instruments from the Middle Ages. Medieval instrumental music in the form of double verses, […]
vendredi, 1 août 2025 @ 19:30 – 4:00 – Magali Simard-Galdès, EMV’s 2025 Artist-in-Residence, stars in this recital focusing on forgotten treasures by Schubert and his contemporaries. Experience the delightful and evocative lieder and instrumental works of early Romantic composers as they would have been heard in Schubert’s time, performed on the natural horn and fortepiano. Discover the unique sounds of Early Music Vancouver’s […]
vendredi, 1 août 2025 @ 13:00 – 4:00 – “Bach is an astronomer,” Frédéric Chopin remarked, “discovering the most marvellous stars.” Explore the imaginings of Baroque astronomy with the Gallo Chamber Players through works that echo the cosmic harmony of the spheres. The programme features stellar works by J.S. Bach as well as by Italian and German forebears such as Biagio Marini, Giovanni Antonio […]
jeudi, 31 juillet 2025 @ 19:30 – 4:00 – Jean-Féry Rebel’s Les Élémens (1737) is a groundbreaking orchestral suite that vividly depicts the creation of the world. It opens with Le Chaos, a bold and strikingly modern movement that begins with a dissonant clash of all the notes in the scale, symbolizing the primordial disorder before creation. The suite then unfolds with expressive dances […]
mardi, 29 juillet 2025 @ 19:30 – 4:00 – East meets West in this dialogue between Baroque and traditional Chinese instruments, whose musical methods of improvisation and ornamentation are remarkably alike. Combining Baroque and Chinese musical instruments may not be a new idea. Historical records show that musical scores by famous Baroque composers like Corelli and Rameau were discovered in China, and European instruments […]
dimanche, 27 juillet 2025 @ 14:00 – 4:00 – Alexander Weimann delivers a humorous, pocket-sized tour of music history using “O Canada” – the Canadian national anthem – as the theme for his variations in the style of various composers including J.S. Bach, C.P.E. Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Scriabin and Messiaen. The hour will start with a talk with Alex hosted by Suzie to discuss […]
samedi, 12 avril 2025 @ 19:30 – 4:00 – Très stylisées, formelles et solennelles : c’est ainsi que l’on imagine généralement les danses anciennes. Mais ce concert dansé, avec le merveilleux danseur et chorégraphe Hubert Hazebroucq, vous fera découvrir ce qu’étaient réellement les danses aux XVe et XVIe siècles ! Omniprésentes dans les fêtes de cour, élégantes, raffinées et aristocratiques, elles deviennent spectaculaires, virtuoses, […]
mardi, 6 mai 2025 @ 19:30 – 4:00 – Estuaire, le nouvel opus collaboratif du maître de la kora Ablaye Cissoko et de l’ambassadrice du setar persan Kiya Tabassian, est le point de jonction où les rivières de leurs mémoires musicales rejoignent la mer collective du moment présent. L’estuaire représente cet étonnant espace de transition et de transformation où vit l’improvisation. Avec leur kora, […]
samedi, 29 mars 2025 @ 19:30 – 4:00 – Ce programme associe les magistrales Six Bagatelles de Beethoven à la Sonate en mi majeur de Mendelssohn, son hommage à Beethoven. John Field, le premier compositeur à avoir inventé l’expression « Nocturne », reprise plus tard par Chopin, et la musique virtuose de Hummel, qui préfigure Chopin, complètent ce qui sera certainement un spectacle mémorable.
vendredi, 21 février 2025 @ 19:30 – 4:00 – Le Quicksilver Baroque Ensemble, connu pour son « jeu impeccable et plein d’âme » (The New York Times), revient à Vancouver pour présenter un programme explorant les révolutions musicales du début de la période moderne. Cette musique « moderne », qui contraste avec la douce polyphonie de la Renaissance, est illustrée par des sonates extravagantes […]
dimanche, 16 février 2025 @ 15:00 – 4:00 – Argentine early music specialists Jonatan Alvarado and Ariel Abramovich explore a beautiful, mysterious musical manuscript compiled in northwest Guatemala in the late sixteenth century. Their program explores the repertoire through a dialogue with contemporary European collections, including the Cancionero de Upsala and the tablature collections by Pierre Attaignant, with special emphasis on pieces that are […]
samedi, 15 février 2025 @ 14:30 – 4:00 – German soprano Dorothee Mields is one of the leading interpreters of 17th– and 18th-century music and is beloved by audiences and critics alike for her unique timbre and moving interpretations. She joins the Pacific Baroque Orchestra for a programme of wedding-related music by J.S. Bach, including his Cantata BWV 202 “Weichet nur” and a “Fictive […]
vendredi, 14 février 2025 @ 19:30 – 4:00 – The English a cappella octet VOCES8 are known for their impeccable tone quality, balance, and stunning performances ranging from the Renaissance to today, including their own arrangements of popular pieces and film scores. A place inhabited by the moon and stars, by solitude and dreams, the night has given us centuries of exquisite poetry and […]
vendredi, 17 janvier 2025 @ 19:30 – 21:00 – Benjamin Bagby, known for his performance of Beowulf, returns to Vancouver with the astonishing medieval verse epic Gregorius, “The Holy Sinner”.
dimanche, 22 décembre 2024 @ 15:00 – 16:30 – Early Music Vancouver’s Festive Cantatas returns with a pairing of the Gloria in excelsis Deo cantata BWV 191 by J.S. Bach with the Czech composer Jan Dismas Zelenka’s Missa Nativitatis Domini (ZWV 8) of 1726.
jeudi, 5 décembre 2024 @ 19:30 – 21:00 – Robin Pharo and the Ensemble Près de votre oreille (“Close to your ear”) offer a fascinating dive into the English lute song during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I.
mardi, 26 novembre 2024 @ 19:30 – 21:00 – Countertenor Iestyn Davies, widely recognized as one of the world’s finest singers, joins the acclaimed viol consort Fretwork in this exploration of exquisite and deeply spiritual 17th-century German repertoire.
dimanche, 16 février 2025 @ 15:00 – 16:30 – Music from 16th Century Guatemala explored by Argentine early music specialists Jonatan Alvarado and Ariel Abramovich. Excerpts from a mysterious musical manuscript compiled in northwest Guatemala in the late sixteenth century.
samedi, 15 février 2025 @ 19:30 – 21:30 – Pacific Baroque Orchestra and soloists on December 22 at the Chan Centre, at 3pm.
vendredi, 14 février 2025 @ 19:30 – 21:30 – Celebrates Valentine’s Day with a concert of acclaimed British group VOCES8, one today’s top performing choral ensembles.
dimanche, 22 décembre 2024 @ 15:00 – 17:00 – EMV’s Festive Cantatas for Christmas feature choral treasures by Bach and Bohemian composer Jan Dismas Zelenka, with the Pacific Baroque Orchestra, dir. by Alexander Weimann.
