By inviting our 15 virtuoso musicians and their conductor Jean-François Rivest, you offer your spectators the sound quality of a very high-level orchestra with superior power and performance quality to more intimate ensembles.

Festivals, promoters and concert halls

VIVALDI AND BEETHOVEN

 

Well-known tunes performed with virtuosity and intensity.

Indoors

Invite a local artist
to narrate

Cultural mediation
available

conducted by
Jean-François Rivest
 
± 80 minutes
with intermission
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I Musici de Montréal offers you the perfect marriage between the bucolic flights of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons and the majesty of Beethoven’s famous 5th Symphony. A well-known and beloved educator, our chef makes it easy for you to listen and briefly and simply explains the program’s historical and musical context. Your appreciation of the works will be better! Vivaldi bequeathed us his famous Four Seasons accompanied by a poem, but also by his pen, and which describes what happens musically. Invite an artist from your community to read these poems on stage before each season. This will create a special connection between your community and our musicians.

Program

Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
The Four Seasons, op.8, no.1-4 (1723-1725)

  • La primavera (fall), RV 269, mi majeur
    – Allegro
    – Largo
    – Allegro
  • L’estate (summer), RV 315, sol mineur
    -Allegro non molto
    – Adagio, presto
    – Presto
  • L’autunno (spring), RV 293, fa majeur
    – Allegro, larghetto, allegro
    – Adagio molto
    – Allegro
  • L’inverno (winter), RV 297, fa mineur
    – Allegro non molto
    – Largo
    – Allegro

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Symphony No.5, op.67, do mineur (1807-1808)

I. Allegro con brio
II. Andante con moto
III. Allegro
IV. Allegro

 

Promoters and concert halls

Dances around the world

A turnkey show available to reserve with ease.

Indoors or outdoors

conducted by
Jean-François Rivest
 
± 70 minutes
no intermission
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I Musici de Montréal comes to you in order to provide you with a getaway for your mind, dreams and dances. During this joyful, light and accessible concert, you will hear the music that accompanies the dances of several countries. Some are tender and soothing, most vigorous and uplifting. From the Austrian march to the Argentinian tango, from the Romanian, Hungarian, Gypsy and Greek dances to the Viennese waltz, from the German ländler to the Quebec rigodon, you will find something for everyone. You will live an experience, where you will visit, in music, countries with colorful customs that will make you want to get up and dance!

Program

  • (Austria) STRAUSS, The Radetzky March
  • (Austria) JOHANN STRAUSS, Emperor Waltz
  • (Hungary) JOHANNES BRAHMS, The Hungarian Dances
  • (Germany) JOHANNES BRAHMS, Liebesliederwalzer (excerpt)
  • (Germany) FRANZ SCHUBERT, German Dances (excerpt)
  • (Argentina) CARLOS GARDEL, Tango por una cabeza
  • (Greece) NIKOS SKALKOTTAS, Greek Dances
  • (Romania) BÉLA BARTÓK, Romanian Dances
  • (Quebec) ANDRÉ GAGNON, Petit concerto pour Carignan et orchestre (traditional)
Promoters and concert halls

I MUSICI AND KLEZTORY

Classical music meets klezmer in an upbeat program for the whole family.

Indoors
with amplification

Cultural mediation
available

conducted by
Jean-François Rivest
 
± 80 minutes
no intermission
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Our orchestra joins the 5 seasoned musicians of Kleztory to make you vibrate with its exciting rhythms, typical of the great Jewish festivities as well as of Eastern Europe. In addition to the many traditional pieces of Kleztory, the instigator of the band which is also a prolific composer, Airat Ichmouratov, performs his own fantasy for clarinet based on klezmer melodies.

Program

  • Airat Ichmouratov
    One Day of an Almost Ordinary Life Op.47
    for clarinet and string orchestra
  • Composition and arrangement by Airat Ichmouratov
    Kleztory’s Freylekh
  • Rabbi Mordechai Dov-Ber Twerski, arrangement by François Vallières
    Im Eshkachech Yerushalayim
  • Dany Nicolas, arrangement by Airat Ichmouratov
    Liteul Biteul
  • Traditional Music, arrangement by Airat Ichmouratov
    Moldavian Hora
  • Traditional Music, arrangement by Airat Ichmouratov
    Oy Tate s’iz Gut
  • Traditional Music, arrangement by Elvira Misbakhova & Airat Ichmouratov
    Violin Doina in C
  • Andy Statman, arrangement by Airat Ichmouratov
    Andy’s Ride
  • Composition and arrangement by Airat Ichmouratov
    Soulmate
  • Traditional Music, arrangement by Elvira Misbakhova & François Vallières
    Ajde Jano
  • Traditional Music, arrangement by François Vallières
    Die Goldene Chasen

Helene Dorion

Program

My forests are long trails of time…
Beethoven 
Symphony No. 6, Pastoral, mouv. I
The uncertain bark
Glass 
Quartet No. 3, movement 6 Mishima, closing (x2)
Beethoven 
Symphony No. 6, Pastoral, mov. II
My forests are a silent field…
Wave of chaos I 
Vasks 
Quartet No. 4, 5th movement
The wave of chaos II
The rustle of time 
Richter 
On the nature of daylight
Beethoven Symphony No. 6, Pastoral, mouv. IV
My forests are the worn out wood of a story…
Beethoven 
Symphony No. 6, Pastoral, mouv. V
Promoters and concert halls
Concert available by end of April 2024

Mes fôrêts – Hélène Dorion and I Musici

My forests of Hélène Dorion in music to better chant the inner pulsation with the woods of which are made the strings of the ensemble I Musici de Montréal.

Indoors
with amplification

Cultural mediation
available

conducted by
Jean-François Rivest
 
± 70 minutes
no intermission
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I Musici de Montréal

Challenge us to surprise you

Tailor-made concerts

Ask us for a tailor-made program, adapted to your audience’s expectations and needs. Our conductor and his musicians will take up the challenge of producing a high-flying concert from the many works of the orchestra’s repertoire and any special requests you may have.
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