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From The Court of Louis XIV to Shippagan

Tuesday, August 2, 2022 | 1 p.m.Christ Church Cathedral

Subscriptions: To purchase tickets to this performance as part of a subscription to 3 or more concerts and receive a 25% discount off the full ticket price, please call Early Music Vancouver’s box office at 604-732-1610 or email boxoffice@earlymusic.bc.ca. Please note the subscription discount is not eligible in combination with other discount programs or on special events Rondeau and Tea Table Miscellany.


Artists: Suzie LeBlanc, soprano; Vincent Lauzer, recorder; Marie Nadeau-Tremblay, violin; Sylvain Bergeron, archlute and baroque guitar

There is no doubt that the majority of traditional Acadian songs come from France, their origins can even be traced back to certain regions. Songs, just like people, are nomadic: they have no borders! The lyrics, like the melodies, often change as they travel. Songs also varied, not only from one Acadian region to another, but also from one performer to another, with each artist lending their own version.

Here, we juxtapose Acadian folk songs from Shippagan with 17th century ‘airs de cour’ from France and the court of Louis the XIV. The folksongs from Shippagan were collected by Dr. Joseph Dominique Gauthier between 1950 and 1957 who, after receiving a visit from two folklorists from Laval University, embarked on his own quest to find songs. Doctor Gauthier, a physician in Shippagan, said that getting songs and stories from his informants was the best way to do geriatrics!

The songs collected by Dr. Gauthier have melismas that are reminiscent of the ornamentation found in French ‘air de cour’ and this reveals the presence of certain archaisms in this isolated northeastern region of New Brunswick.

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Les Nations

Friday, July 29, 2022 | 7:30 p.m.Christ Church Cathedral

Subscriptions: To purchase tickets to this performance as part of a subscription to 3 or more concerts and receive a 25% discount off the full ticket price, please call Early Music Vancouver’s box office at 604-732-1610 or email boxoffice@earlymusic.bc.ca. Please note the subscription discount is not eligible in combination with other discount programs or on special events Rondeau and Tea Table Miscellany.


Artists: Contrasto Armonico

Born in 1668, François Couperin was the only son of Charles Couperin, the harpsichordist and organist at the old Parisian Church of Saint-Gervais. During his lifetime, François Couperin, the most illustrious member of a distinguished musical family, was highly esteemed, both as performer (on the organ and the harpsichord), and as composer, and it was his contemporaries who conferred upon him the surname of “The Great.”

Les Nations is a vast project of extended trio sonatas in which the virtues of both the French and Italian styles are set next to each other. Each of the four Ordres celebrates a Catholic power of Europe, France, Spain, the Holy Roman Empire and the Savoy dynasty of Piedmont, and each is a combination of an Italianate trio sonata with its free-form virtuosity and a large-scale and elaborate French dance suite. 

Although the collection was published in 1726, some of the pieces were composed by Couperin some thirty or more years earlier, inspired by his enthusiasm for the newly-discovered Italian instrumental style, like many other composers of his generation.

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The Last Rose of Summer

Friday, July 29, 2022 | 1 p.m.Christ Church Cathedral

Subscriptions: To purchase tickets to this performance as part of a subscription to 3 or more concerts and receive a 25% discount off the full ticket price, please call Early Music Vancouver’s box office at 604-732-1610 or email boxoffice@earlymusic.bc.ca. Please note the subscription discount is not eligible in combination with other discount programs or on special events Rondeau and Tea Table Miscellany.


Artists: Pierre-Antoine Tremblay, horn; Alexander Weimann, fortepiano

In 1805, the Irish poet Thomas Moore wrote a short poem entitled “The Last Rose of Summer,” which was later set to a traditional tune called “Aisling an Óigfhear” (The Young Man’s Dream). The poem and the tune were published together in 1813 in Volume 5 of Moore’s Selection of Irish Melodies. Dozens of classical composers created their own arrangements and fantasies based on the tune, including three of the five composers on this program, Beethoven (twice, in 1814 and 1818), Moscheles in 1826 in a work for piano and orchestra, and Mendelssohn (in 1830) with a piano piece that opens with a short Adagio introduction in which the melody is presented, after which it is subjected to a steady succession of treatments in terms of tempo, mood, and fragmentation.

The horn and the piano had been around for many years before anyone thought of writing a sonata combining the two instruments. That “anyone” was Beethoven, and the year was 1799. Scholars have so far found no precedent. It was to be the only sonata by this composer for a wind instrument, and it was written for a particular horn player named Jan Václav Štich (1748-1803), born in Bohemia, and who became Giovanni Punto when he moved to Italy. Renowned for his virtuosity, Punto had ample opportunity to prove himself in Beethoven’s acrobatic writing for the instrument. As Beethoven was a formidable pianist, he gave himself a substantial part as well. 

Another composer to highlight on this programme is Fanny Mendelsshon who was an outstanding pianist and one of the foremost women composers of the nineteenth century. 

Generously supported by Anona Thorne and Takao Tanabe

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Resounding Hildegard: Echoes of the Abbess in the Present Day

Thursday, July 28, 2022 | 7:30 p.m.Christ Church Cathedral

Subscriptions: To purchase tickets to this performance as part of a subscription to 3 or more concerts and receive a 25% discount off the full ticket price, please call Early Music Vancouver’s box office at 604-732-1610 or email boxoffice@earlymusic.bc.ca. Please note the subscription discount is not eligible in combination with other discount programs or on special events Rondeau and Tea Table Miscellany.


Artists: Arkora; Jonathon Adams, baritone; Lan Tung, erhu

The electric chamber consort Arkora, conceived in Vancouver, continues its exploration of connections between past and present with a project of new works by Canadian composers and ancient masterworks highlighting the oeuvre of Hildegard von Bingen. The program offers a combination of historically-informed performance and contemporary re-envisioning of early work performed by Arkora’s ensemble of early and new music specialists. At the heart of the program lie Arkora-commissioned works by Dorothy Chang, Tova Kardonne, and Jonathan Wild, as well as world premieres by Curtis Andrews and Benton Roark, composer-performers that have each forged distinct voices in the world of contemporary music through the fusion of different styles. Alongside medieval and Renaissance chants and motets, these works find a meeting place in a concert of voices and instruments from different centuries and traditions, including mridangam, electric guitar, strings, and microtonal keyboard and percussion. For this project Arkora is also joined by special guests EMV’s 2021 Artist-in-Residence Jonathan Adams, baritone and master erhu improviser, Lan Tung. The early works will include the chants Nunc Gaudeant and O Virtus Sapientiae and more by Hildegard von Bingen as well as motets by Pérotin, Vicentino and Lassus. 

Generously supported by Dorothy Jantzen

Pre-concert talk: Join us at 6:45 p.m. for a pre-concert interview with Bill Richardson and the co-Artistic Directors of Arkora, Kathleen Allan and Benton Roark. This talk is included in the live concert ticket price.

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A Curious Collection of Tunes

Thursday, July 28, 2022 | 1 p.m.Christ Church Cathedral

Subscriptions: To purchase tickets to this performance as part of a subscription to 3 or more concerts and receive a 25% discount off the full ticket price, please call Early Music Vancouver’s box office at 604-732-1610 or email boxoffice@earlymusic.bc.ca. Please note the subscription discount is not eligible in combination with other discount programs or on special events Rondeau and Tea Table Miscellany.


Artists: David Greenberg, violin; David McGuinness, keyboard; Kirsty Money, Nyckelharpa

Old fiddle tunes which are steeped in centuries of tradition have always been granted a special power and meaning, but how old are they? The two Davids have built a core repertoire of Scottish tunes which in the 18th century were both old and new, and they explore the relationships between these and other traditions: in the European art music of the time, in the fiddle music of Scandinavia, and in present-day folk composition.

This concert is generously supported by Eric Wyness.

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Ebb and Flow

Wednesday, July 27, 2022 | 7:30 p.m. Chan Centre for the Performing Arts

Subscriptions: To purchase tickets to this performance as part of a subscription to 3 or more concerts and receive a 25% discount off the full ticket price, please call Early Music Vancouver’s box office at 604-732-1610 or email boxoffice@earlymusic.bc.ca. Please note the subscription discount is not eligible in combination with other discount programs or on special events Rondeau and Tea Table Miscellany.


Artists: Pacific Baroque Orchestra, Alexander Weimann, music director; David Greenberg, violin; David McGuinness, keyboard; Fiona Tinwei Lam, Vancouver poet laureate  

Join Vancouver’s new Poet Laureate, Fiona T. Lam, EMV’s Artists-in-Residence, and the Pacific Baroque Orchestra in a musical celebration of water.

The Pacific Baroque Orchestra will perform Handel’s Water Music – a suite of highly spirited dance pieces for a small orchestra. Originally intended for outdoor performance, the work premiered on a barge on the river Thames, where it provided entertainment for a royal cruise hosted by King George I of Great Britain on July 17, 1717. The king was so delighted with the new work that he asked to hear it over and over—for a total of four performances. Telemann’s water music, Hamburger Ebb’ und Fluth, celebrated the centennial anniversary of the Hamburg Admiralty in 1723. The suite draws upon Hamburg’s geographical location as an important and successful port on the river Elbe. Telemann illustrates the piece with mythological water deities and tone painting. Alasdair MacLean is a Canadian composer living in Nova Scotia. His piece for five strings, The Silken Water is Weaving and Weaving, was inspired by a line from the poem Cape Breton by Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1976).

Pre-concert talk: Join us at 6:45 p.m. at the Royal Bank Cinema for a pre-concert interview with Bill Richardson, Fiona T. Lam, Celia Brauer of the False Creek Watershed Society, and author Bruce Macdonald. This talk is included in the live concert ticket price.

The False Creek Watershed Society was created after Brauer’s growing interest in the lost streams of Vancouver. In collaboration with Macdonald, she created a map of Vancouver’s original ecosystem, drawing on documents from the nineteenth century. 

“To understand what was here and really embody it, is a supreme act of reconciliation. Because only then can you imagine the world in which local First Nations lived. And then picture what was lost. And what that must have been like for these folks to watch their world be clearcut and paved over. It truly was – for a very long time – the richest place on earth. We cannot bring this back, but if we remember it honestly, we can perhaps bring parts of it back and certainly hold it in ourselves in spirit and cherish it.”

Celia Brauer

This concert is generously supported by Zelie & Vincent Tan, Helen & Frank Elfert, and Mark De Silva.

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Bach Festival 2022 Digital Concert Hall Package

Summer 2022Online

Our Digital Concert Hall gives you access to watch three concerts from our summer Bach Festival from the comfort of your own home. This package also includes a free film for you to enjoy! These concerts cannot be purchased individually.

**Links to view the concerts will be sent once they become available, and can be viewed until Aug 31st, 11 p.m. PST **

Ebb and Flow – available July 30th at 7 p.m.

Artists: Pacific Baroque Orchestra, Alexander Weimann, music director; David Greenberg, violin; David McGuinness, keyboard; Fiona Tinwei Lam, Vancouver poet laureate

Join Vancouver’s new Poet Laureate, Fiona T Lam, EMV’s Artists-in-Residence and the Pacific Baroque Orchestra in a musical celebration of water.

The Pacific Baroque Orchestra will perform Handel’s Water Music – a suite of highly spirited dance pieces for a small orchestra. Originally intended for outdoor performance, the work premiered on a barge on the River Thames, where it provided entertainment for a royal cruise hosted by King George I of Great Britain on July 17, 1717. The king was so delighted with the new work that he asked to hear it over and over—for a total of four performances. Telemann’s water music, Hamburger Ebb’ und Fluth, celebrated the centennial anniversary of the Hamburg Admiralty in 1723. The suite draws upon Hamburg’s geographical location as an important and successful port on the river Elbe. Telemann illustrates the piece with mythological water deities and tone painting. Alasdair MacLean is a Canadian composer living in Nova Scotia. His piece for five strings, The Silken Water is Weaving and Weaving, was inspired by a line from the poem Cape Breton by Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1976).

This concert is generously supported by Zelie & Vincent Tan, Helen & Frank Elfert, Mark De Silva.

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Live Concert – Kalhor & Tabassian in Dialogue

Live Concert – Kalhor & Tabassian in Dialogue

Kayhan Kalhor, Setar & Kiya Tabassian, Setar | Friday, June 3, 2022 7:30 p.m. at The Kay Meek Centre for the Performing Arts I Saturday, June 4, 2022 7:30 p.m. at the The Roundhouse This concert will be live streamed on June 3, 2022 at 7:30 p.m. and will be available to watch after 48 hours for two days.

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From dawn to dusk, music reigns among the stars of Persian civilization. The traditional music of Iran, unique to the Orient, is the fruit of a mystical heritage with a fascinating capacity for constant regeneration. For this unique concert, Kayhan Kalhor, an uncontested master of this tradition, joins Kiya Tabassian on a journey through an immense musical universe. Carrying on tradition while uncovering the future, they make poetry that sings of times both old and new, and contribute to a culture that is in full swing.

The intensely spiritual and emotional improvisations of Kalhor and Tabassian, steeped in the traditional music of Iran, are said to bring listeners to a trance-like state. The ancestry of the setar can be traced to the ancient tanbur of pre-Islamic Persia. It is made from thin mulberry wood and its fingerboard has more than 20 moveable frets. Setar is literally translated as “three strings”; in its present form, however, it has four strings. Because of its delicacy and intimate sonority, the setar is the preferred instrument of Sufi mystics.

” Rather than a duel, the two setarists’ ninety or so uninterrupted minutes onstage turned out to be a clinic in how to build something transcendent.” New York Music Daily 

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Live Concert – Les Plaisirs Du Louvre

Live Concert – Les Plaisirs Du Louvre

Ensemble Correspondences Friday, May 6, 2022 | 7:30 pmChan Centre for the Performing Arts

The Louvre was the chief residence of the King, the epicentre of power, where the important events in the life of the court naturally took place. A ceremonial tradition was developed within its walls, which was to reach its zenith under Louis XIV. In this theatre of power, music was an object of entertainment as well as an instrument of magnificence. While laying the foundations of the future splendours of the Grand Siècle, the reign of Louis XIII represents the golden age of a galant culture, whose musical emblem, the air de cour, pervaded the whole of society and was heard in all the salons, galleries and ruelles of the capital’s aristocratic residences, and especially the most symbolic of them: the Louvre. Another key centre of sociability was the Queen’s apartment, located on the ground floor beneath the King’s apartment. It was in these different spaces that the Musique de la Reine could be heard. The echoes of these ‘pleasures’, inhabited by strange and whimsical divinities, allegorical characters or characters from the realm of galanterie, are bound to delight every listener.

This concert is generously supported by Bruce Munro Wright.

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