Rafael Payare, the Orchester symphonique de Montréal and violinist Hilary Hahn will launch the next Festival de Lanaudière, which will also welcome Hélène Grimaud for the first time. For their very first collaboration, pianists Charles Richard-Hamelin and Marc-André Hamelin will be accompanied by Les Violons du Roy in a program devoted to Mozart.
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Fourteen major concerts are scheduled at the Amphithéâtre Fernand-Lindsay, as well as 10 others will be presented in “the most beautiful churches” of Lanaudière for this 45and meeting of classical music. Four screenings of musical films are also on the program for the event, which takes place between June 30 and August 7.
“The Festival is a plea for a renaissance of culture and beauty, for a resurgence of the values of dignity and benevolence through timeless art,” underlines Renaud Loranger, artistic director of the Festival de Lanaudière. In the changing world in which we live, “music remains a haven of authenticity” and “a refuge of humanity”, he judges.
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Hilary Hahn
The opening concert by the Orchester symphonique de Montréal (OSM) and Hilary Hahn is dedicated to Mahler (Symphony No. 5 in C sharp minor) and Prokofiev (Violin Concerto No. 1 in D major, op. 19). The next day, 1er July, the OSM and the soloist will offer a concert entitled Summer fun consisting of works by Ravel, Dvorak, Bartók and Debussy.
Pianists Marc-André Hamelin and Charles Richard-Hamelin will be reunited for the first time on the same stage on July 9 for a Mozart evening with Les Violons du Roy conducted by Bernard Labadie. Charles Richard-Hamelin will stay around since, on July 12, he will offer a “romantic” solo concert during which he will perform pieces by Chopin and Ravel, including Couperin’s Tomb.
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Yannick Nezet-Seguin
The OSM will be back in Lanaudière at the end of July to perform Daphnis and Chloe by Ravel, but it is the Orchester Métropolitain (OM) and its conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin who will have the honor of closing the event on August 6 and 7 with programs devoted to Wagner and Debussy, then to Mendelssohn and Schuman. Pianist Hélène Grimaud will perform for the first time at the Festival de Lanaudière during the second of these evenings sponsored by OM.
The German orchestra Akademie Für Alte Musik Berlin, presented exclusively in North America, will offer three Beethoven programs between July 15 and 17. Also on the program, the French pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard, who is trying an extraordinary experience: playing the bird catalog by Olivier Messiaen in four blocks of music spread over a period of 24 hours, from July 22 to 23.