Festival de Lanaudière – July 9 to August 7, 2016 LiveEvents July 6, 2016 3740 The Festival de Lanaudière is the premier classical music event in Canada with performances enjoyed by 55,000 visitors each year. Concerts are held at the Fernand-Lindsay Amphitheatre (30 minutes away from the eastern tip of the island of Montreal) and in the region’s beautiful churches. Saturday, July 9, 2016 Alain Lefèvre plays Tchaikovsky: Romantic Drama and Passion Romanticism, warmth, lyricism and stormy turbulence – no concerto embraces Alain Lefèvre’s passionate personality as does Tchaikovsky’s famous Piano Concerto No. 1. This is the concerto scheduled for the Festival’s Opening Night on July 9. Also on this all-Tchaikovsky program will be the symphonic poems The Tempest and Romeo and Juliet, both inspired by immortal works of Shakespeare. Festival Orchestra Alain Lefèvre, piano Gregory Vajda, conductor Piotr Ilitch Tchaikovsky The Tempest, Symphonic Fantasia, Op. 18 Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor, Op. 23 Romeo and Juliet, Fantasy-Overture Ottorino Respighi Feste romane (Roman Festivals) Amphithéâtre Fernand-Lindsay (Lanaudière) For more information and tickets: www.placedesarts.com 514-842-2112 or 1-866-842-2112 Sunday, July 10, 2016 The mark of minimalism: Glass, Pärt, Mozetich, Nyman, Einaudi With her colleagues of La Pietà, Angèle Dubeau has in recent years focused on music of some of the most important minimalist composers like Arvo Pärt, Ludovico Einaudi, Marjan Mozetich, Michael Nyman and Philip Glass. With its hypnotic rhythmic patterns, captivating themes, pared-down musical language and gentle spirituality, minimalism is one of the few movements in modern music that have gained popular interest. Angèle Dubeau and La Pietà pay tribute to this music of profound simplicity and great originality in their concert on Sunday, July 10. La Pietà Angèle Dubeau, violin Philip Glass La Belle et la Bête : « Ouverture » Ludovico Einaudi: (Arr. F. Vallières, A. Dubeau) – Divenire/ Giorno dispari /Run Marjan Mozetich – Postcards from the Sky : « Unfolding sky » Arvo Pärt – Mozart Adagio Michael Nyman: (Arr. A. Keenan) – À la folie Maxime Goulet – Présentation concertante Philip Glass: (Arr. M. Riesman) – Suite from The Hours : « Movement 1» Ludovico Einaudi: (Arr. F. Vallières, A. Dubeau) – I giorni/ Life/ Experience Amphithéâtre Fernand-Lindsay (Lanaudière) For more information and tickets: www.placedesarts.com 514-842-2112 or 1-866-842-2112 Friday, July 15, 2016 The Conductor serves Haydn and Beethoven Music fresh as a summer evening, a virtuosic soloist, a brilliant and inspired conductor, a dynamic and outgoing orchestra – this is the menu offered by Bernard Labadie, Anthony Marwood and Les Violons du Roy! Les Violons du Roy Anthony Marwood, violin Bernard Labadie, conductor Joseph HAYDN Overture to L’isola disabitata Joseph HAYDN Symphony No. 95 in C minor Ludwig van BEETHOVEN Violin Concerto, Op. 61 Amphithéâtre Fernand-Lindsay (Lanaudière) For more information and tickets: www.placedesarts.com 514-842-2112 or 1-866-842-2112 Sunday, July 17, 2016 Tribute to Ella Fitzgerald Vocalist Jessica Vigneault, accompanied by the Montréal National Jazz Orchestra under the direction of Christine Jensen, pays lively tribute to the incomparable Ella Fitzgerald, who was perhaps the greatest jazz singer of the twentieth century. The program includes hit songs that made this grande dame of jazz famous, including “Embraceable You,” “Fascinating Rhythm,” and “Someone to Watch over Me” by George and Ira Gershwin, Johnny Mercer’s “Laura,” Cole Porter’s “You Do Something to Me,” and many more. Hum along to your favorite songs and dance in the aisles while a vibrant singer and a stirring ensemble bring back the great era of Big Band music. Montréal National Jazz Orchestra Jessica Vigneault, vocalist Christine Jensen, conductor Amphithéâtre Fernand-Lindsay (Lanaudière) For more information and tickets: www.placedesarts.com 514-842-2112 or 1-866-842-2112 Friday, July 22, 2016 The Colors of French Romanticism Packed with brilliance, filled with color, affecting and moving with touches of sensuality, French music of the romantic period cannot fail to please! Experience it to the fullest with soprano Karina Gauvin, the Orchestre Métropolitain, and conductor Mathieu Lussier. Orchestre Métropolitain Karina Gauvin, soprano Mathieu Lussier, conductor Édouard LALO Overture to Le Roy d’Ys Jules MASSENET Méditation from Thaïs Ernest CHAUSSON Poème de l’amour et de la mer Hector BERLIOZ Le Corsaire, Overture Georges BIZET Three songs for soprano and orchestra Cesar FRANCK Le Chasseur maudit Amphithéâtre Fernand-Lindsay (Lanaudière) For more information and tickets: www.placedesarts.com 514-842-2112 or 1-866-842-2112 Friday, July 29, 2016 Live the Collectif9 experience! Collectif9 is a string ensemble like no other. This classical music group imbues the stage with the charisma of a rock group, including sets and lights. It combines originality and virtuosity to create an absolutely unique, sizzling musical experience. Well-known in popular venues, the group engages audiences in stimulating dialogue in repertory ranging from Brahms and Bartók to Piazzolla to André Gagnon. Whether you are looking to discover classical music, or just want to get off the beaten track, collectif9 is for you! Thibault Bertin-Maghit, double bass and arrangements Andrea Stewart, cello Jérémie Cloutier, cello Scott Chancey, viola Xavier Lepage-Brault, viola Roland Arnassalon, violin Yubin Kim, violin Frédéric Moisan, violin Grégor Monlun, violin Amphithéâtre Fernand-Lindsay (Lanaudière) For more information and tickets: www.placedesarts.com 514-842-2112 or 1-866-842-2112 Friday, August 5, 2016 Charles Richard-Hamelin and OSM Pianist Charles Richard-Hamelin, winner of the Silver Medal and the Krystian Zimerman Prize at the 2015 Chopin International Piano Competition in Warsaw, has appeared on several occasions at the Festival in recent years in church recitals, in chamber music at the Musée d’art de Joliette, and as concerto soloist on the Amphitheatre stage. It is with great pride and joy that we welcome the Lanaudière pianist once again, on August 5 at the Fernand-Lindsay Amphitheatre for his first performance with Kent Nagano. The people have chosen! After two months and more than 600 votes, the Festival de Lanaudière announces the concerto Charles Richard-Hamelin will play: it will be Brahms’s Concerto No. 1 in D minor. We thank you for being among the many who voted! Orchestre symphonique de Montréal Charles Richard-Hamelin, piano Kent Nagano, conductor Robert SCHUMANN – Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major, “Rhenish” Johannes BRAHMS – Concerto No. 1 in D minor, Op. Amphithéâtre Fernand-Lindsay (Lanaudière) For more information and tickets: www.placedesarts.com 514-842-2112 or 1-866-842-2112 Saturday, August 6, 2016 Kent Nagano and the Mozart Requiem: A great classic in the great outdoors For more than two centuries, Mozart’s stirring Requiem, his final composition left incomplete upon his death, has ranked as an audience favorite. As a follow-up to Beethoven’s striking Missa solemnis in 2015, Kent Nagano and the OSM present another in their series of great choral masterworks at the Amphitheatre. Orchestre symphonique de Montréal Sarah Webner, soprano Michèle Losier, mezzo-soprano Michael Schade, tenor Alexander Tsymbalyuk, bass Festival Chorus Andrew Megill, chorus master Kent Nagano, conductor Wolfgang Amadè MOZART Requiem in D minor, K. 626 Amphithéâtre Fernand-Lindsay (Lanaudière) For more information and tickets: www.placedesarts.com 514-842-2112 or 1-866-842-2112 Sunday, August 7, 2016 Yannick Nézet-Séguin and The Orchestre Métropolitain : From Philadelphia with Love Montreal, city of a hundred steeples and Philadelphia, City of Brotherly Love – two cities close to the heart of Yannick Nézet-Séguin. The famed conductor brings to his Montreal orchestra a program of works that were given their world premieres by the Philadelphia Orchestra, two masterpieces of Sergei Rachmaninoff: the Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini and the Symphonic Dances. A grand finale to your Lanaudière summer of music! Orchestre Métropolitain Nicholas Angelich, piano Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor BACH/STOKOWSKI- Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor, BWV 582 Sergei RACHMANINOFF – Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43 Nico MUHLY – Mixed Messages Sergei RACHMANINOFF – Symphonic Dances, Op. 45 Amphithéâtre Fernand-Lindsay (Lanaudière) For more information and tickets: www.placedesarts.com 514-842-2112 or 1-866-842-2112 For the complete schedule of events, visit: www.lanaudiere.org
