Orchestre symphonique de Montréal presents

Ravel and Debussy on the Organ

From Couperin to Robin, discover French organ music in original organ works as well as transcriptions. While Ravel and Debussy never composed for this instrument, their music, full of subtle colours and timbres, will resound with splendour on the Grand Orgue Pierre-Béique.

Travel through three centuries of French music with organist and composer Jean-Baptiste Robin for a concert that will extol the magnificence of the Grand Orgue Pierre-Béique.

Jean-Baptiste Robin is regarded as one of the most prominent French concert organists and composers of today.

“Musicians of this caliber are uncommon.” – Aurore Leger, Classica (July 2020)

With his appointment in 2010 as Organist of the Royal Chapel at the Palace of Versailles, he was secured a place in a long line of famous French organists. He also serves as Professor of Organ and Composition at the Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional in Versailles.

His frequent performance trips have yielded recitals in 20 European countries, Russia, Israël, Asia (China, Japan and South Korea), Canada and nearly half of the fifty states in the United States of America.
He has been a featured recitalist at well-known international concert halls : the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, Madrid National Auditorium, Berliner Philharmoniker, Philharmonie and Auditorium de Radio France in Paris, Woolsey Hall in New Haven, the Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal, the Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg, Russia, the National Centre for the Performing Arts and the Forbidden City Concert Hall in Beijing, China, the Sejong Cultural Center in Seoul, Korea, and Musashino Concert Hall in Tokyo, Japan.

He has been jury member on the most prestigious international competitions around the world : the Canadian International Organ Competition in Montréal, Saint-Albans, Dietrich Buxtehude and Gottfried Silbermann.

Program
Claude Debussy, Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune (transcr. J.-B. Robin, 11 min.)
Charles-Marie Widor, Symphony no. 6, op. 42, no. 2: I. Allegro (9 min.)
Maurice Ravel, Ma mère l’Oye, excerpts (transcr. J.-B. Robin, 9 min.)
Jean-Baptiste Robin, Chant du Ténéré (5 min.)
Louis Vierne, Suite no. 2, op. 53: VI. Toccata (5 min.)
Intermission (20 min)
François Couperin, Messe pour les couvents
Maurice Ravel, Le tombeau de Couperin (transcr. J.-B. Robin)

Sunday,February 23, 2025 at 2:30pm
Maison symphonique de Montréal

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