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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 Kaleidoscope/Reimaginations

Friday, Aug 5, 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 & harpsichord; Christina Hutten, harpsichord; 2022 Artist-in-Residence David McGuinness, harpsichord; Marco Vitale, harpsichord; Chloe Myers, violin; 2022 Artist-in-Residence David Greenberg, violin

This programme takes on Bach’s love of adopting other pieces as in Vivaldi’s Concerto for Four Violins and Strings which he reworked for four harpsichords. Bach added at least four extra parts and restructured the fabric like a kaleidoscope which, when directed at a certain object, is reflective and imaginative at the same time. Programming Bach’s concerto for four harpsichords gives EMV a chance to showcase four outstanding keyboard players as well as its harpsichord collection. It also features the excellent work of local builder Craig Tomlinson whose instruments are used by the Vancouver Symphony, Vancouver Opera, UBC and EMV. This concert is a celebration of magnificent polyphony, counterpoint and accumulated keyboard power but mostly, it is a tribute to the immense wealth of Bach’s compositions.

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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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Prophets Outside Their Country – Corelli & the Italians

Prophets Outside Their Country – Corelli & the Italians

Wednesday July 28, 2021 | 4:15PMChan Centre for the Performing Arts

The history of European music has been shaped by the uprooting and travels of artists seeking work, fame, knowledge or financial stability. In this programme, we tell the stories of Italian composers Geminiani, Brescianello, Locatelli, and Corelli who left home to seek a better future. This concert will showcase the virtuosic brilliance of violinist Chloe Kim, named as one of Canada’s top 30 under 30 by CBC last year when she was just 23-years-old.

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Lab’rinths – Songs by Purcell & his Contemporaries

Lab’rinths – Songs by Purcell & his Contemporaries

Thursday July 29, 2021 | 6:45PMThe Chan Centre for the Performing Arts

The program name ‘Lab’rinths’ evokes the spiritual mystery and human turmoil captured so clearly by Purcell and his contemporaries. Taken from a collection of sacred songs published in 1688 by Henry Playford, ‘Harmonia Sacra’, these devotional songs by Purcell can often be interpreted as biblical ‘mad scenes’: they offer the listener a glimpse into his most dramatic and harmonically adventurous explorations of personal loss, confusion, spiritual angst and delirious ecstasy. These songs will be sung by baritone Jonathon Adams and accompanied by Mélisande Corriveau on viola da gamba and Eric Milnes on organ and harpsichord. Interpolating these vivid scenes are pieces written for two viols by contemporaries of Purcell, including the works of John Jenkins, William Lawes and John Withy. Susie Napper will join Corriveau and Milnes for these instrumental selections.

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Chaconne – Pachelbel, Corelli & More

Chaconne – Pachelbel, Corelli & More

Thursday July 29, 2021 | 1:15PMThe Chan Centre for the Performing Arts

Eight notes of one famous bass line have placed Johann Pachelbel among the world’s most well- recognized composers. Yet there is much more to him than his ever-popular Canon. This program presents two rarely heard suites from Pachelbel’s major surviving chamber music work, Musikalische Ergötzung (Musical Delight). Featured gems for solo violin and continuo include ciaconnas by Italian composers Antonio Bertali and Nicola Matteis. Both were violin virtuosi who left their native country for successful careers in Vienna and London, respectively. Matteis contributed to steering the English taste toward the florid and fiery Italian school of violin playing. From the earthly to the ethereal, explore the remarkable spectrum of what the chaconne has to offer with these four talented local artists.

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Guided by Voices with Bach’s Cello Suite no. 6

Guided by Voices with Bach’s Cello Suite no. 6

Friday July 30, 2021 | 12:45PMThe Chan Centre for the Performing Arts

Today, the five-string cello is treated as an exotic and rarely-played cousin of the standard cello. However, in the 17th and 18th centuries it was simply one of the many instruments used in the family of bass violins and was particularly important for virtuosc sonatas and solos. This programme centres around the five-string cello’s most enduring work, Bach’s Sixth Solo Cello Suite (BWV 1012).

Each movement reveals the instrument’s incredible versatility and remarkable colours. Elinor Frey explores these qualities further through two newer works, “Guided By Voices” by Scott Godin (based on “O Vis Aeternitatis” of Hildegard von Bingen) and “With concord of sweet sounds” by Isaiah Ceccarelli.

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Pardessus in Paradise – J.S. Bach & his French Contemporaries

Pardessus in Paradise – J.S. Bach & his French Contemporaries

Wednesday August 4, 2021 | 12:15PMChan Centre for the Performing Arts

The works selected by Mélisande Corriveau and Eric Milnes for this evening present a vibrant array of French musical styles developed during the 18th century before the French Revolution. The origin and development of the pardessus de viole – known in France as “the woman’s violin”- coincided with the increasing prominence of the violin in French instrumental fashion. The crowning glory of the viola da gamba family, the pardessus – the smallest of the viola da gamba family of instruments – facilitated the instrument’s rise in popularity in France. Most of the works which will be performed were selected from the microfilm collections of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, and few had been recorded until Mélisande’s recent recording. They are charming, playful, luminous and exquisitely elegant.

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Bach’s Sons

Bach’s Sons

Tuesday August 3, 2021 | 4:15PMChan Centre for the Performing Arts

Of J.S. Bach’s children that survived into adulthood, four became composers whose music we still perform. While their musical facility reflects their father’s influence, each son had a very different path of travel, employment, and development of their musical voice. Johann Christian’s Chromatic Fugue on B-A-C-H pays homage to the serious, contrapuntal style of the past, but usually the Bach sons write in the galant style of their own generation, characterized by simplicity and immediacy of appeal. The closeness of the Bachs sometimes complicates the attribution of their music. The Orchestral Suite in G minor, BWV 1070, once thought to be by father Johann Sebastian, was more likely written by Wilhelm Friedemann. The Cello Sonata in A Major of Johann Christoph Friedrich seems liberated, natural, and comprehensible when played on a cello fit with a fifth string whereas the Cello Concerto in A minor of his older brother, Carl Philipp Emanuel fits well on the more popular 4-string instrument. Each work demonstrates the language of Sensibility (Empfindsamkeit): intimate, sensitive, and subjective. In their music, emotions are fleeting and instantaneous and, above all, the beauty of melody is emphasized.

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Angela Hewitt: Bach, Brahms, and Scarlatti

Sunday, March 12, 2023 | 3 p.m. The Chan Centre for the Performing Arts

Angela Hewitt returns to EMV with Scarlatti, Bach and Brahms. Ms. Hewitt has become one of Bach’s foremost interpreters of our time. In her own words “Bach’s music cries out for a keyboard instrument that imitates the human voice. These days, you don’t hear so much discussion (about whether to play Bach on the piano), and there are as many ways of Bach on the piano as there are pianists. What I try to do is not think of it so much as keyboard music but as music that imitates the voice or the orchestra. It’s not piano music in the way Brahms or Chopin is piano music.”

Ms. Hewitt will be playing Bach’s English Suite No. 6 in D minor, preceded by a selection of Scarlatti sonatas and followed by Brahms’ Sonata in F minor Op.5. After her recent performance at Wigmore Hall, Martin Kettle from The Guardian commented “The beautifully sustained andante, which seems to slip in and out of the harmonic world of Beethoven’s Pathétique sonata, was the highlight of the evening. Truly a woman who can play Brahms, too.”

This concert is generously supported by Eric Wyness and Mark de Silva.

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