Bourgie Hall presents

Arion Baroque Orchestra: Complete Cycle of Cantatas by J. S. Bach

Performances of the complete cycle of J.S. Bach’s prodigious sacred cantatas continue! As part of the complete Bach cantata series produced by Arte Musica at Bourgie Hall, the Arion Baroque Orchestra presents four wonderful cantatas that aptly illustrate the cantor’s sublime musical science and sensitivity. Trumpet, horns, oboes, violin, and strings join in turn with a quartet of voices to express the transition from fear to hope, from night to light. The great master’s music triumphantly resounds in an abundance of sumptuous choruses, an infinite variety of instrumental colours and unsurpassed melodic depth.

Artists
Arion Baroque Orchestra
Mathieu Lussier, Music Director

Recently appointed Artistic Director of Arion Baroque Orchestra, Mathieu Lussier has been associated with les Violons du Roy as Conductor-in-residence in 2012, and Associate Conductor from 2014 to 2018, Lussier has led the orchestra in concerts in Quebec, and on tour in greater Canada, the United States, Mexico and Brazil, collaborating with artists such as Marc-André Hamelin, Philippe Jarrousky, Alexandre Tharaud, Jeremy Denk, Jean-Guihen Queyras, Julia Lezhneva, Anthony Marwood and Karina Gauvin. Previous appointments include Artistic Director and Conductor of the Lamèque International Baroque Music Festival, where he served from 2008 to 2014. As a soloist, Mathieu Lussier has energetically and passionately promoted the modern and baroque bassoon as solo instruments for more than two decades throughout North America and Europe. He also devotes considerable time to chamber music as a member of ensemble Pentaèdre de Montréal. Since the summer of 2014, he has been Professor at Université de Montréal.

Soloists:
Andréanne Brisson Paquin, soprano
Marie-Andrée Mathieu, mezzo soprano
Nicholas Scott, tenor
Alexandre Dobson, baritone

Program
J.S. BACH
Wahrlich, wahrlich ich sage euch, BWV 86
O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort, BWV 60
Erfreute Zeit im neuen Bunde, BWV 83
Bringet dem Herrn Ehre seines Namens, BWV 148

Bourgie Hall
Saturday, December 18, 2021 at 2:30pm
Sunday, December 19, 2021 at 2:30pm

To purchase your tickets visit: www.mbam.qc.ca