Franz Joseph Haydn Quartet in B at major Op. 50 No. 1 The art music of Western Europe underwent a period of transition in the mid- 18th century as the thickly embroiled scores of the Baroque, with their long spun-out … Continue reading
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The second concert from "A Festival of New Music" at Pierre Boulez Saal in Berlin is about to begin. Daniel Barenboim and Emmanuel Pahud will answer your questions. #KeepCultureAlive #NewMusicFestival
Tune in to A Festival of New Music which will be live streamed from Pierre Boulez Saal in Berlin at 9am (Vancouver time) today. Daniel Barenboim and Emmanuel Pahud have curated the festival to raise awareness of the challenges COVID-19 poses not only to the health and livelihood of people worldwide but also to cultural life. There are four performances in total which take place from July 9-12.
The VRS is a Festival Partner and the Pierre Boulez Saal has asked us to encourage people to donate to a cultural organization of our choice. We're happy to recommend the wonderful Vancouver Academy of Music. We've often partnered with VAM in the past to present masterclasses to its students. #keepculturealive #newmusicfestival
In this week's e-news we share details of a partnership with Pierre Boulez Saal in Berlin, plus our latest installment of Beyond the Concert Hall featuring Leila's chat with David Gordon Duke: bit.ly/31XnQnJ
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We're delighted to be able to introduce VRS patrons and friends to A Festival of New Music featuring ten new works by Irini Amargianaki, Benjamin Attahir, Johannes Borowski, Luca Francesconi, Michael Jarrell, Philippe Manoury, Olga Neuwirth, Matthias Pintscher, Christian Rivet, and Jörg Widmann. Th...A change to our first concert in the 2017-18 Season
Posted onThe Simón Bolívar String Quartet’s scheduled performance at the Vancouver Playhouse on September 17 has been postponed to a future season. The current volatile and violent situation in Venezuela, which has heightened following last week’s election, has made it almost impossible … Continue reading
PROGRAM NOTES: BENJAMIN GROSVENOR
Posted onRobert Schumann Arabesque, Op. 18 In the autumn of 1838 Robert Schumann made a career decision. He would move from his native Leipzig to Vienna to find a publisher and a sympathetic public for his piano compositions. The public he … Continue reading
PROGRAM NOTES: JAVIER PERIANES
Posted onFranz Schubert Piano Sonata in A Major D 664 The salubrious effects of country air on the mind and spirits of the vacationing composer are well known. Witness Schubert’s wonderfully relaxed and lyrical Sonata in A Major D 664 composed … Continue reading
PROGRAM NOTES: MURRAY PERAHIA
Posted onJohann Sebastian Bach French Suite No. 6 in E Major BWV 817 The spirit of the dance can be felt across a wide range of Bach’s works, from the fugues of the Well-Tempered Clavier to the Mass in B minor. … Continue reading
PROGRAM NOTES: PAUL LEWIS
Posted onJohann Sebastian Bach Partita No. 1 in B flat major BWV 825 The partita, in late Baroque parlance, was just another name for a dance suite, a multi-movement work made up of the four canonical dance forms—allemande, courante, sarabande & … Continue reading
PROGRAM NOTES: FLORIAN BOESCH AND MIAH PERSSON
Posted onThe Songs of Robert Schumann Robert Schumann was a composer steeped in literature. His compositions bear the dual imprint of both German musical and literary Romanticism. Literature was the family business, one might say, as his father, August Schumann, was … Continue reading
PROGRAM NOTES: HARRIET KRIJGH, CELLO & MAGDA AMARA, PIANO
Posted onFelix Mendelssohn Cello Sonata No. 2 Op. 58 Mendelssohn’s second sonata for cello and piano reveals him as the Classical-Romantic hybrid that he was. An effortless practitioner of Classical etiquette in the construction of symmetrically balanced phrases, he eagerly took … Continue reading
Program Notes: Benjamin Beilman, violin with Yekwon Sunwoo, piano
Posted onFranz Schubert Sonata in A major D574 The adolescent Schubert was a busy young man indeed. Fresh from single-handedly inventing the 19th-century German art song (the Lied) at the tender age of 17, he subsequently developed a teenage crush on … Continue reading
Program Notes: Dover Quartet with Avi Avital
Posted onSulkhan Tsintsadze Six Miniatures for String Quartet and Mandolin (arr. Ohan Ben-Ari) The Soviets promoted the ideal of music rooted in the traditions of their native soil and in this regard it would be hard to find a composer more … Continue reading