The Bourgie Hall announced Tuesday its 14the season, the second prepared by artistic director Olivier Godin and general director Caroline Louis. A menu slightly reduced in quantity, but not in any way in quality.
87 programs instead of last year’s 95 will be produced by the Arte Musica Foundation, which hosts the room at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. This is obviously without counting the ten guest presenters, the most active of which are Arion Baroque Orchestra, the Montreal Chamber Music Festival and the Fibonacci Trio.
Unveiled last year to succeed the complete Bach cantatas now completed, the new major project which will be the complete more than 600 lieder by Schubert will get underway in September, and will continue for several years, with view the bicentenary of the composer’s death in 2028.
The most prestigious participant of Year 1 is undoubtedly tenor Ian Bostridge (with Julius Drake on piano), but the performances of baritone Benjamin Appl and soprano Rachel Fenlon (who accompanies herself on piano!) are not not to be outdone.
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The artistic director, Olivier Godin, and the general director, Caroline Louis, unveiled the program for Bourgie Hall.
The Early Music Studio will also participate in the enterprise with a “schubertiad” celebrating the Viennese composer’s vocal quartets under the direction of its director Andrew McAnerney.
The voice will also be well served outside of Schubert with the renowned baritone Christian Gerhaher in a Schumann program accompanied by Gerold Huber, as well as with the soprano Barbara Hannigan and the pianist Bertrand Chamayou in a recital of modern and contemporary music.
When we think of Bourgie, we also think a lot of “piano”, in particular with the new Steinway from Hamburg which has been making many people happy for several months. A regular at the place, Louis Lortie will be back as artist in residence, notably in a complete Ravel, a repertoire that he knows like the back of his hand.
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The Bourgie Room piano
We will also have, from here, Louise Bessette, Raoul Sosa, Charles Richard-Hamelin and Maxim Bernard, and elsewhere, Benedetto Lupo, Kirill Gerstein and Imogen Cooper (last three sonatas by Beethoven), to name only the best known .
Apart from the keyboard, the two most exclusive soloists are without a doubt Leonidas Kavakos, in a semi-complete work for solo violin by Bach, the cellist Steven Isserlis in Beethoven, Martinů and Nadia Boulanger with, as when she came two years ago years old, pianist Connie Shih, and guitarist Manuel Barrueco.
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As for chamber music, in addition to the usual series with musicians from the two main Montreal orchestras, the most recognized ensemble to grace the stage will be the Modigliani Quartet for two concerts of French music with Louis Lortie. We will nevertheless gladly listen to the quartets Noûs, Molinari (twice), Castalian, Quiroga, Van Kujik and Mivos (complete Steve Reich).
In early music, we will notably be entitled to the Talens lyriques of Christophe Rousset (with the soprano Ambroisine Bré), the countertenor Iestyn Davies (alongside the viol consort Fretwork) and two leading British vocal ensembles: the Tallis Scholars and Stile Antico.
Otherwise, the Violons du Roy, who have not yet officially announced their 2024-2025 season, are back for six concerts featuring, among others, the violist Antoine Tamestit (also conducting), the cellist Raphaël Pidoux and the countertenor Hugh Cutting.
Jazz lovers will have the privilege of hearing the Samuel Bonnet Trio, the David Chesky Trio (which revisits Bach and others “jazz-style”), the Lorraine Desmarais Trio, the saxophonist Rémi Bolduc and a few others.
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