Join one of the world’s reigning sopranos in Baroque and classical repertoire, Karina Gauvin, for a programme of virtuosic opera arias from 18th century St. Petersburg.
The great English tenor Charles Daniels joins forces with members of the Pacific Baroque Orchestra and conductor Alexander Weimann for a mixed programme of music from the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries inspired by myths from Ovid’s Metamorphosis.
Designed by Peter Phillips to commemorate the centenary of the end of the First World War in 1918, a complete Mass provides the framework, put together from war-like sources. These come either from the tradition of the Armed Man (L’homme armé), or are based on a chanson actually describing a battle (La batalla).
The “Little Orchestra” is a snapshot of an early moment in the history of the evolution of the fortepiano on its way to becoming the modern grand piano. Music by Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven.
A major figure of 18th century musical Europe, Telemann enjoyed in his time more fame and renown than even the great J.S. Bach. This great master of instrumental music, open to French and Italian influences as well as the new galant style that flourished in Germany, succeeded, especially in his chamber music, in creating a charming synthesis of European styles at the crossroads between Baroque and Classicism.
One of the world’s leading pianists, Angela Hewitt regularly appears in recital and with major orchestras throughout Europe, the Americas and Asia. Her performances and recordings of Bach have drawn particular praise, marking her out as one of the composer’s foremost interpreters of our time.
For this programme Ensemble Constantinople invite Canadian treasure, soprano Suzie LeBlanc, to revisit and explore new avenues and Italian composers often unknown to the general public.
Award-winning Polish pianist, Janusz Olejniczak, will play two recitals with different programmes. In each concert, he will play the first half on a 19th-century fortepiano and the second half on a modern Steinway.
Bach-inspired work by composers Jocelyn Morlock, Douglas Finch, Rodney Sharman, and Bramwell Tovey. The program is completed by Györgi Ligeti’s neo-Baroque gem, Passacaglia ungherese, and JS Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto #5, perhaps his most quirky and radical work, described by Susan McClary as an expression of emancipation of the individual.
The string quartet was born in the salons and households of 18th century Europe. Numerous contemporaneous accounts of the pleasures of such evenings of music-making mention the suppers and dinners that accompanied these musical feasts. The Eybler Quartet, for the benefit of Early Music Vancouver, offers an intimate evening of musical treats woven together with the delights of the table at the Dockside Restaurant of the Granville Island Hotel.
Toronto’s Eybler Quartet brings to life the relatively obscure music of Vanhal and Asplmayr, early apostles of this genre, and trace a line to the treasured works of Haydn and Beethoven that became the backbone of the string quartet repertoire for generations to come.
In this programme, Diderot String Quartet performs excerpts from The Art of the Fugue with Mendelssohn’s rarely heard Fugue for string quartet, op. 81/4, a beautiful nod to Bach, and his beloved String Quartet No. 2, op. 13, which pays homage to the baroque master in its own fugal ways.
