PROGRAM NOTES: JUPITER ENSEMBLE
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"His technique is immaculate and his choice of material ambitious, but what really sets the 28-year-old, Djibouti-born musician apart is just how much vocal feeling he can bring to his instrument." Check out Stir Vancouver's interview with guitarist Raphael Feuillatre, who'll make his VRS debut at the Playhouse on Sunday, November 24.
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Presented by Vancouver Recital Society, the Djibouti-born musician brings tremendous vocal feeling to his instrument
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Soprano Barbara Hannigan is set for a tour alongside pianist Bertrand Chamayou across 10 cities in the United States and Canada.
Happy World Pianist Day! At the VRS, we're blessed to have so many incredible pianists in our orbit, and our 24-25 roster is full of brilliant talents. We've already enjoyed performances by Rachel Fenlon, Schaghajegh Nostrati, Tamara Stefanovich, Angela Cheng, and Benjamin Hochman. Still to come this season: Bertrand Chamayou, Tom Borrow, Yunchan Lim, Sahun Sam Hong, Steven Osborne, Alexander Melnikov, and Evgeny Kissin. Lucky, lucky us! #WorldPianistDay
PROGRAM NOTES: MAO FUJITA
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Notice of the Vancouver Recital Society’s AGM for the year ended August 31, 2022
Posted onThe Board of Directors of the Vancouver Recital Society hereby gives notice that the Annual General meeting of the Society will be held online, via ZOOM (details below) on the 16th day of February, 2023 at 5pm for the following … Continue reading
Program Notes: Zlatomir Fung and Benjamin Hochman
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Program Notes: Randall Goosby and Zhu Wang
Posted onLili Boulanger Deux Morceaux Lili Boulanger was born into a distinguished family of French musicians. Her grandfather, Frédéric Boulanger (b. 1777) had been a professor at the Paris Conservatoire and was married to Marie-Julie Haligner (1786-1850), a mezzo-soprano at the … Continue reading
Program Notes: Jean Rondeau
Posted onJohann Sebastian Bach Goldberg Variations BWV 988 Bach’s Aria mit verschiedenen Veränderungen vors Clavicimbal mit 2 Manualen was published in 1741 as the final instalment of his Clavier-Übung series of keyboard works. This monumental exploration of the variation form ranks … Continue reading
Program Notes: Jamal Aliyev and Fazil Say
Posted onFranz Schubert Sonata in A minor for Arpeggione and Piano D. 821 Schubert’s Arpeggione Sonata was composed in 1824 but only published in 1871—long after the composer’s death in 1828, and almost as long after the principal instrument for which … Continue reading
Program Notes: Sir András Schiff performs the Goldberg Variations
Posted onBach’s Clavier-Übung (1726-1741) The works on this evening’s recital are selected from Bach’s collection of keyboard pieces published in four parts between 1726 and 1741 under the collective title Clavier-Übung (keyboard exercise). In this collection Bach systematically lays out for … Continue reading
Program Notes: Steven Isserlis and Connie Shih
Posted onReynaldo Hahn Variations chantantes sur un air ancien The Venezuelan-born French composer Reynaldo Hahn is best known for his contribution to the French song repertoire with his more than 100 mélodies published between 1890 and his death in 1947. He … Continue reading
Program Notes: Filippo Gorini
Posted onJohann Sebastian Bach The Art of Fugue BWV 1080 By the 1740s Bach had largely withdrawn from composing new church music for Leipzig’s Thomaskirche, devoting his creative energies instead to a series of large-scale projects that responded more directly to … Continue reading