This live broadcast from the Montreal Conservatory's Concert hall, features a concert of works by women composers. Three Canadian works and two from Europe. The music of these women is filled with strength, imagination, colour, textures and even staging. We invite you to discover 5 great quartets by women composers of our time. Alexina Louie […]
Three works from Québec composers with three very different aesthetics will be heard during this concert. You will follow the dramatic life of the Cuban poet Reinaldo Arenas in Avant la nuit, Quartet no.1 by Éric Champagne, then hear the delicacy and the subtils colours of Keiko Devaux’s Dust with in filigree Beethoven’s Adagio from […]
Three works from Québec composers with three very different aesthetics will be heard during this concert. You will follow the dramatic life of the Cuban poet Reinaldo Arenas in Avant la nuit, Quartet no.1 by Éric Champagne, then hear the delicacy and the subtle colours of Keiko Devaux’s Dust with in filigree Beethoven’s Adagio from […]
Three works from Québec composers with three very different aesthetics will be heard during this concert.
En toute liberté! features two works that use the controlled aleatory technique. Even though all the notes and rhythms are precisely marked, Boucourechliev and Joachim’s quartets give the musicians a certain freedom. These works are unique because they are always a little different at each performance. Other than the Quatuor III by André Boucourechliev and […]
Other than the Quatuor III by André Boucourechliev and Quatuor (1997) by Otto Joachim, the Molinari Quartet will perform Kelly-Marie Murphy’s energetic Oblique Light. With a special thought for R. Murray Schafer, who passed away in August 2021, the musicians will end the concert with his 13th quartet, Alzheimer's Masterpiece.
This workshop enables the public to familiarize itself with the quartet repertoire by direct exchanges with the musicians. The Quartet plays excerpts, comments and analyses the works and gives historical and musical references. This Dialogue will discuss the works that will be performed on October 15 at the Conservatoire.
Free admission.
R. Murray Schafer
Quartets no.7, 10, 12 et 13
On Friday October 15 at 7 :30 pm, the Molinari Quartet will pay tribute to the late R. Murray Schafer at the Montreal Conservatory. The musicians will perform 4 of the 5 string quartets Schafer wrote for the Molinari.
You will hear the incredible Quartet no.7 with soprano obligato, with the wonderful soprano Aline Kutan. With full staging, quadraphonic sound, movement of the musicians throughout the hall, this quartet shatters the conventional string quartet in all means. Coloured shirts and sculptures by Guido Molinari make a special setting for this unique and beautiful music.
Winter Birds, Schafer’s 10th quartet depicts the sounds of the birds and wolves that Schafer heard from his farmhouse in Ontario in the winter of 2005. The 12th Quartet was commissioned thanks to the generosity of Phyllis Lambert and is a work of great lyricism and beauty and, as always with Schafer’s music, it also has a strong rhythmic vitality. The very short Quartet no.13, subtitled Alzheimer’s Masterpiece is Schafer’s last work and was written just after he received his diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease.
The Molinari Quartet will also play a 10 minute excerpt of Schafer’s Labyrinth which combines musicians in live performance of the quartets with original motion picture images that will be projected on a large screen. The film is make and produced by Barbara Willis-Sweete.
This concert is presented before a public and is also live-streamed.
The links to the tickets will be available soon.
Based on the strong links of contemporary dance and classical music, performed by the Molinari Quartet, Les corps avalés is a moving human odyssey where the sensitive intelligence and the great musicality of choreographer Virginie Brunelle is spotlighted.
The Molinari Quartet performs excerpts of quartets by Górecki, Shostakovich, Glass and Barber among others during the stunning dance movements.
East European music is often influenced by regional folk music. Bartók and Janáček’s string quartets are good examples of this folk influence with their dancing momentum.
The musicians will also perfom Italian composer Giacinto Scelsi’s String Trio. This work will be recorded shortly to complete the CD box set of the complete string quartets by Scelsi on ATMA Classic label.
Leoš Janáček : Quatuor no 2
Giacinto Scelsi : Trio à cordes
Béla Bartók : Quatuor no 2
