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You were numerous on Thursday, February 2 at the Pierre-Mercure Hall of the Centre Pierre-Péladeau, while I Musici de Montréal played Brahms' First String Sextet and Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, transcribed for strings alone. An unusual program that was praised by critics.

Conductor Jean-François Rivest had promised us a «trip profoundly I Musici» Thursday night at the first concert of the year of the string ensemble. The spectators at the Salle Pierre-Mercure are far from having been disappointed, wrote Emmanuel Bernier in La Presse

For his part, Alain Brunet commented on Panm360: (…) Jean-François Rivest knows how to ring a chamber orchestra to titillate our curiosity with this ingenious reduction of orchestra.

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UPCOMING CONCERT

We can't wait to see you next Thursday, March 9, at 7:30 p.m., Salle Pierre-Mercure. I Musici welcomes again the chief and violist of Ukrainian origin Maxim Rysanov. On the programme are the Concertante Symphony for Violin and Viola (with Julie Triquet and Rysanov as soloists) and W. A. Mozart’s Symphony No. 29, and Malcom Arnold’s Variations on a Ukrainian Theme.

 

Maxim Rysanov
Viola and Conductor

 

Julie Triquet
Solo Violin

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.

- Jean-François Rivest

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I MUSICI AT FESTIVAL MONTRÉAL NOUVELLES MUSIQUES, MARCH 2, 2023

Your Musici and their conductor Jean-François Rivest will also be in concert on March 2 at 7 p.m. at the Salle Pierre-Mercure as part of the 11th Festival Montréal Nouvelles Musiques de la Société de musique contemporaine du Québec (SMCQ). A Messiaen program, with pianist Louise Bessette, Estelle Lemire on Martenot, the SMCQ Ensemble and a chorus of women’s voices.

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VALENTINE’S DAY WITH LA SAMS AND I MUSICI

I Musici continues its collaboration with La SAMS (Society of Arts in Health Care). One of our quartets was at CHSLD Vigi Santé in Dollard-Des-Ormeaux on February 14th for Valentine’s Day!

 

 

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