Concerts - 2011 - 2012

Victor Simon, piano 

“Tango Night: Una noche en Buenos Aires” featuring pianist Victor Simon accompanied by the Orchestra, transports you into the seductive world of tango. For your enjoyment, invited dancers will share the stage with the musicians. Let yourself be spellbound by the inviting rhythms of Argentinean music!

Astor Piazzolla	Fuga y Misterio
	HISTOIRE DU TANGO
	--- Bordel 1900
	--- Nigthclub 1960
	--- Café 1930
	--- Concert d’aujourd’hui
	Adios Nonino
	Libertango
Victor Simon	Primatango
	Tristera
	Milonguita de Lolo
	Enamorada
Carlos Gardel	Por una cabeza
E. Saborido	Felicia
Angel Villoldo	El Choclo
Mariano Mores	Tanguera (Film Moulin Rouge)
G. M. Rodriguez	La Cumparsita

*Musical arrangements: Victor Simon

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Milos Popovic, piano 

“Premiere at the Museum” inaugurates our season at Salle Bougie, Musée des Beaux Arts with a concert featuring phenomenal pianist Milos Popovic, named “Young soloist of 2010” by Les Radios Francophones Publiques. The program features Dvorak’s Piano Quintet No. 2, in A major, Op. 81, arranged for piano and string orchestra by MCO’s own Boris Brott. Also at the program, Dag Wirén’s popular Serenade as well as the world premiere of a work by Nicole Lizée inspired by a painting from the Group of 7, exhibited at the Musée. Sounds and sights to envelop the senses!

Dag Wirén	Serenade,Op. 11
Nicole Lizée	World Premiere inspired by a painting from the Group of 7  (exhibited in the Museum of Fine Arts of Montreal)
Dvorak	Piano Quintet in A Major, Op. 81, orch. Boris Brott

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Pascale Beaudin, Soprano
Jacques-Olivier Chartier, Tenor
Nathaniel Watson, Baritone

“Bach Secular Cantatas” is the MCO’s Montreal Bach Festival concert for 2011 and features Pascale Beaudin (soprano), Jacques-Olivier Chartier (tenor) and Nathaniel Watson (baritone) as soloists with MCO in J.S. Bach’s Coffee and Peasant Cantatas.
These amusing Cantatas preset the light-hearted side of the great Johann Sebastian Bach. The Coffee Cantata tells the story of a father who tries to discourage his daughter from drinking coffee- a beverage considered vile. His threat? He tells his daughter she cannot be wed until she gives up the java bean! The Peasant Cantata, on the other hand, tells the story of two young lovers. Not unlike today, their interests in the relationship are wholly different…

Bach	Coffee Cantata, No 211
	Peasant Cantata, No 212

This concert is presented as part of the 2011 Montreal Bach Festival.

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Hélène Brunet, Soprano
Daniel Taylor, Counter-tenor
Rufus Müller, Tenor
Alexandre Dobson, Bass
Patrick Wedd, Choir Master

An MCO Montreal tradition, Handel’s masterpiece “Messiah” features, this year, the Christ Church Cathedral Choir led by Patrick Wedd, with soloists Hélène Brunet, Daniel Taylor, Rufus Muller and Alexander Dobson. Come celebrate the occasion!

Handel

Messiah

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Alina Israilian, piano

”Beethoven!” is a tribute to MCO’s founder, Alexander Brott whose Minuets and Canons, based on unpublished Beethoven, begin the evening’s program. Young and brilliant Montrealer, Alina Israilian, the MCO’s discovery of the year, interprets Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, Op. 37. The concert concludes with the exuberant Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 36.

Alexander Brott	Beethoven Minuets and Canons
Beethoven	Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, Op. 37
	Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 36

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Matthias Maute, Recorder
Sophie Larivière, Recorder

For the concert “Romantic Baroque” the MCO invites Ensemble Caprice’s brilliant recorder virtuosos Matthias Maute and Sophie Larivière, as soloists. Featured works by Vivaldi, Handel, Telemann and Matthias Maute provide a programme with largely Baroque repertoire approached in a romantic point of view.

Handel	Concerto Grosso, Op. 6 No. 5
Telemann	Chaconne in F minor for 2 recorders and strings
Vivaldi	Concerto in D minor for 2 violins, strings and bc
Vivaldi	Concerto in G Major for flautino, strings and bc
Maute	Concerto for 2 recorders, 2 violins and bc  (in baroque style)
Telemann	Suite Don Quichotte for strings
Telemann	Double concerto for flute, alto recorder strings and bc

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Marouan Benabdallah, piano

“Schumann, Schubert: A Viennese Evening” promises to be a concert fully charged with emotions, with acclaimed Moroccan pianist Marouan Benabdallah as featured soloist. His pianistic prowess has earned him the Medal of the Hungarian Parliament for his achievement in music - an honour he shares with Placido Domingo. This evening, he performs a new arrangement of Robert Schumann’s Piano Quintet for string orchestra and solo piano. Likewise, he interprets Mahler’s string arrangement of Schubert’s Death and the Maiden.

Pierre Mercure	Divertissement
Schumann	Piano Quintet in Eb Major, Op. 44
Schubert	“Death and the Maiden” D Minor D. 810 arr. Gustav Mahler (Tribute for the 101st anniversary of his death)

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Andrew Wan, Violin
Arianna Warsaw-Fan, Violin

“Double Concertos II” features violinists Andrew Wan, Concertmaster with the Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal, and his conjoint Arianna Warsaw-Fan in her Montreal debut as a soloist. On the program, two double concertos: Le Chevalier de St-George’s Sinfonia Concertante and Malcolm Arnold’s Double Concerto. Nicknamed “the black Mozart” Le Chevalier de St-George’s was born in 1745 in Guadeloupe. Malcolm Arnold is one of the 20th century’s most prominent British composers. The MCO will conclude this fascinating season with Tchaikovsky’s ever popular Serenade for Strings.

Le Chevalier de St George	Symphonia Concertante in G major, Op. 13
Malcolm Arnold	Concerto for 2 Violins
Tchaikovski	Serenade for Strings in C major, Op. 48

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