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Origins – Music of the Tang Dynasty

Wednesday November 25, 2020 | 7:30PM

All of the works on this programme are taken from traditional Chinese repertoires and feature traditional Chinese instruments with a special focus on music from the Tang Dynasty. This programme is designed as an introduction to Chinese classical music for EMV’s audience. Though the Vancouver-based musicians of Silk Road Music Ensemble are not playing on period instruments, in collaboration with EMV, they have begun to explore the notion of historically informed performance practice for future seasons. They are already in the process of making contact with specialists in China who we plan to co-present in Vancouver in coming seasons.

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Musical Offering: Transcending Time

Wednesday November 11, 2020 | 7:30PM

Bach’s Musical Offering was initiated in in 1747 when Frederik the Great invited 62-year-old J.S. Bach to his court with a challenge: to improvise a three-part fugue on a complicated musical theme chosen by Frederik himself. To the amazement of all present, “Old Bach” met the challenge with unprecedented creativity and innovation. Bach sent the King The Musical Offering, a brilliant collection of canons and fugues, and a trio sonata that is without parallel in 18th century chamber music, all dedicated to exploring and exhausting the contrapuntal possibilities of the same musical theme. Composed in 2002, Vancouver composer Jocelyn Morlock’s “Revenant” is based on reversing the same royal theme.

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Wondrous Machine – Organ Recital feat. Alexander Weimann

Wednesday October 28, 2020 | 7:30PM

Join the PBO’s Music Director and one of Canada’s finest organists, Alexander Weimann, for an organ recital filmed on the magnificent instrument at Christ Church Cathedral in Victoria, BC. Built by Hellmuth Wolff & Associes Ltee of Montreal in 2005, all of the composers on this programme hail from a Southern German/Austrian tradition of organ composition and were chosen because they are a perfect fit for the design of this particular instrument. Works by composers including Johann Kaspar Kerll (1627-1693), Hans Leo Hassler (1564-1612) , Georg Muffat (1653-1704, Johann Pachelbel (1653-1706), Johann Jakob Froberger (1616-1667), and ending with Johann Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s (1756-1791) Andante für eine Walze in eine kleine Orgel, KV 616.

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In Search of Music from the Qajar Dynasty

Wednesday October 14, 2020 | 7:30PM

Saeed Farajpouri is among the greatest performers of the Iranian Kamanche (Spike Fiddle). For this performance he is joined by Doctor Amir Koushkani, who is a researcher and master performer of the Iranian Tar (Long-necked lute) along with Hamin Honari on the Tombak (Goblet drum). These musicians come together to present Iranian music in a manner that is faithful to the style of music which would have been presented during the Qajar Dynasty of Iran (1789-1920).

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Orchestral Dance Suites from 18th century Germany feat. Pacific Baroque Orchestra

Wednesday September 30, 2020 | EMV

Enjoy the opening concert of EMV’s 51st season with the Pacific Baroque Orchestra performing ravishing dance suites. German composers Dietrich Becker, Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer, and Georg Muffat combine the French and Italian musical styles of the day, balancing simplicity and grace with daring harmony and unbridled virtuosity.

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Tomasz Ritter – A Chopin Online Recital

Available until Thursday July 25, 2020

In September 2018, 23-year-old Tomasz Ritter won the 1st Chopin Competition on Period Instruments in Warsaw. With the introduction of this new branch of the famed competition, the Chopin Institute have sent a clear message about the importance of reviving and understanding the 19th century instruments for which Chopin wrote.

Of the thirty pianists from nine countries in the competition, Ritter’s talent unanimously captured the jury’s imagination. A graduate of Moscow’s Pyotr Tchaikovsky Conservatory, Ritter has studied with period pianist luminaries Johannes Sonnleitner, Alexei Lubimov, Malcolm Bilson, Andreas Staier and Tobias Koch. Join EMV and the Vancouver Chopin Society for this riveting online concert by one of the piano world’s most prominent rising stars.

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Telemann & C.P.E. Bach Chamber Works feat. Destrubé, Ter Linden, Ogg, Hazelzet

Wednesday March 4, 2020 | 7:30PM (Pre-concert talk at 6:45PM)
Christ Church Cathedral

Marc Destrubé and the three Dutch masters of the period instrument revival who will join him for this recital of chamber music by Telemann and C.P.E. Bach have been at the forefront of the international early music movement for over 30 years. All former instructors of our long-running Summer Baroque Instrumental Course at UBC, these four great artists have played pivotal roles in inspiring and teaching the next generation of Early Music artists. They have also individually enjoyed long and illustrious careers as soloists, chamber musicians and musical leaders all over the world – we could not imagine programming EMV’s 50th anniversary without them. This programme will feature a selection of highly expressive chamber music from the late 18th century repertoire known as the Style Galant.

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Sea Songs & Shanties feat. Ensemble La Nef & Chor Leoni

Saturday February 22, 2020 | 7:30PM (Pre-concert talk at 6:45PM)
Chan Shun Concert Hall at the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts

Join the musicians and vocal soloists of La Nef and Chor Leoni Men’s Choir as they explore music of the sea with capstand shanties, halyard shanties, laments, forecastle songs, and short haul shanties: hear the rich songs and music that accompany a sailor’s work and play. Inspired by a tradition of English maritime music going back to the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries, Seán Dagher, the troupe’s musical director, has created modern arrangements of these songs to display all the warmth and depth they deserve.

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Film in Concert: The Passion of Joan of Arc feat. The Orlando Consort

Friday January 31, 2020 | 7:30PM (Pre-concert talk at 6:45PM)
Christ Church Cathedral

An intense experience awaits us as we journey to medieval France to witness the trial of Joan of Arc: a silent movie classic, accompanied by intricately beautiful live choral music from The Orlando Consort. Condemned unseen in France on its release, vilified by the Catholic authorities and even banned outright in England, Carl Theodor Dreyer’s film, La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc (1928), is widely recognised as a masterpiece. The award-winning Orlando Consort have crafted a stunning soundtrack to transport us back to the 15th century.

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