An innovative multimedia creation combining music and immersive video scenography, inspired by the work and destiny of Camille Claudel, an exceptional French sculptor.
Here 's a musical journey into the very heart of the sculptures and paintings of women artists that have been ignored for too long!
Works by Debussy, Tailleferre and Heggie.
Get ready for the Acoustic Exploration concert by attending the workshop Dialogue on the Plateau the preceding Sunday. During this activity, you wil hear excerpts of the works to be performed on the December 9 concert, you will get analysis of the works and be able to discuss with the musicians to get a better understanding and appreciation of the works.
This concert will explore the vast range of sounds that can produce a string quartet and will also underline the centennial year of Iannis Xenakis’ birth with Ergma, a very powerful work. You will also assist to the world premiere of Hologramme Modal for string quartet and kamancheh by Iranian composer and musician Showan Tavakol and hear Krzysztof Penderecki’s very exploratory Quartet No. 1. The Molinari will play Oasis by Azerbaijani composer Franghiz Ali-Zadeh and will close the concert with the revolutionary Quartet no.3 written in 1927 by Béla Bartók.
Pour se mettre dans l’ambiance des Fêtes, le Molinari a invité le hautboïste Vincent Boilard, hautbois solo associé de l’Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, à partager la scène avec lui, dimanche après-midi le 18 décembre prochain, dans le cadre de la série Concert intime à la Fondation Guido-Molinari au 3290, rue Sainte-Catherine Est à Montréal.
Le programme du concert comportera trois quintettes avec hautbois des compositeurs canadiens Brian Cherney, Elizabeth Raum et Stuart Grant.
De plus, le Molinari reçoit la jeune mezzo-soprano Odile Portugais qui chantera des airs de Handël et de Vivaldi
Pour se mettre dans l’ambiance des Fêtes, le Molinari a invité le hautboïste Vincent Boilard, hautbois solo associé de l’Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, à partager la scène avec lui, dimanche après-midi le 18 décembre prochain, dans le cadre de la série Concert intime à la Fondation Guido-Molinari au 3290, rue Sainte-Catherine Est à Montréal.
Le programme du concert comportera trois quintettes avec hautbois des compositeurs canadiens Brian Cherney, Elizabeth Raum et Stuart Grant.
De plus, le Molinari reçoit la jeune mezzo-soprano Odile Portugais qui chantera des airs de Handël et de Vivaldi.
This concert will explore the vast range of sounds that can produce a string quartet and will also underline the centennial year of Iannis Xenakis’ birth with Ergma, a very powerful work. You will also assist to the world premiere of Hologramme Modal for string quartet and kamancheh by Iranian composer and musician Showan Tavakol and hear Krzysztof Penderecki’s very exploratory Quartet No. 1. The Molinari will play Oasis by Azerbaijani composer Franghiz Ali-Zadeh and will close the concert with the revolutionary Quartet no.3 written in 1927 by Béla Bartók.
This musical theatre presents eleven fables recited by Catherine Perrin and illustrated with musics by Denis Gougeon for harpsichord and string quartet and by Jean-Philippe Rameau for harpsichord. The first part of the concert will have the Molinari Quartet perform Samuel Barber's Quartet op.11 (with the celebrated Adagio) followed by the fables in the second part.
The Molinari Quartet pursues its collaboration with the Compagnie de danse Virginie Brunelle in the spectacular show "Les corps avalés".
The dancers and musicians will perform at the Pratt & Whitney Canada hall in Longueuil for this show presented by Théâtre de la Ville.
Critics are unanimous to underline the emotion and virtuosity of the dancers and the moving choreography by Virginie Brunelle sustained by the live music of the Molinari Quartet.
The Molinari plays works by Philip Glass, Henryk Górecki, Dimitri Shostakovich and Samuel Barber among others.
In preparation to the concert Transparency of February 17 at the Conservatoire, the musicians of the Molinari Quartet invite you to come and dialogue with them on the works to be heard during that concert. During this free workshop, the musicians and composer Brian Cherney will discuss the works, play excerpts and analyse the quartets to enable the public to have a better listening experience and understanding of the works. They will also answer questions regarding the quartets, instrumental practice and the work of musicians.
Musical refinement, elegance and subtlety are at the forefront of this concert by the Molinari Quartet. You will hear the premiere of Brian Cherney's 7th string quartet, Four Quarters by Thomas Adès and Benjamin Britten's Quartet no.2.
