GERMANY: The Essence of I Musici

I Musici de Montréal | Photo : Julia Marois

GERMANY: The Essence of
I Musici

February 2, 2023
7:30 p.m.

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conducted by

Jean-François Rivest

with
I Musici solo quartet

± 80 minutes

with intermission

This program is sure to leave you spellbound! We have amplified Brahms’s famous String Sextet in E-flat major for the entire string orchestra, dividing the orchestra into six sections with an additional double bass—as Mahler did in his arrangement of Schubert’s Death and the Maiden quartet and Schoenberg in Transfigured Night. Beethoven’s legendary Fifth Symphony was reduced to strings, whereas the front row quartet has taken on the place and role of the wind instruments. This concert embodies passion, lyricism, spirit, and energy—the founding I Musici de Montréal characteristics that will literally be amplified and multiplied through these new arrangements.

Thursday, February 2, 2023
7:30 p.m.

Pierre-Mercure Hall of the Pierre-Péladeau Centre

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Program

Brahms

String Sextet No. 1
Duration: approx. 33 minutes

Beethoven

Symphony No. 5
Duration: approx. 35 minutes

Julie Triquet plays on a Giuseppe Odoardi 1726 violin, generously loaned by Mr. David B. Sela.

Christian Prévost plays on a Rafelle and Antonio Gagliano violin, Naples (ca.18xx) and a Jean Joseph Martin bow (ca.1880), kindly lent by CANIMEX.

Amélie Benoit Bastien plays a Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume violin, Paris, ca. 1845, number 1672, Stradivarius model and a Eugène Sartory bow, Paris, ca. 1935, courtesy of CANIMEX.

Annie Guénette plays on a Josef Gagliano 1768 violin and a Lamy bow, generously loaned by CANIMEX.

Tim Halliday plays the 2014 Kolia cello by Mira Gruszow and Gideon Baumblatt, generously on loan from Mr. David B. Sela.

Marieve Bock plays the Maucotel cello, Paris, 1849, courtesy of CANIMEX.