I Musici’s Eternal Light
I Grandi Concerti series

Works by Vivaldi, Brahms, Lauridsen and a North American premiere by Connesson

2019-2020 promises to be an eventful season. To inaugurate the I Grandi Concerti series, I Musici de Montréal and conductor Jean-Marie Zeitouni are presenting the concert Eternal Light, Tuesday, October 15, 2019, a program informed by spirituality and discovery.

Eternal Light should prove to be essential and unique as much for the works being performed as for the ambiance in which spectators will be immersed. Being played for the first time in North America, a piece by popular French composer Guillaume Connesson, Liturgies de lumière (Liturgies of Light), will set the tone for the evening and pave the way to Vivaldi’s Dixit Dominus RV 807, an extremely rich musical moment, discovered by the general public barely ten years ago. Next, to the delight of the artists, one of Brahms’s earliest accompanied choral works, Geistliches Lied (Sacred Song), Op. 30, will be staged with great finesse and emotion. And finally, Morten Lauridsen’s Lux Æterna will conclude the evening.

With the I Grandi Concerti, I Musici de Montréal catches fire in a series of exceptional concerts under the baton of Jean-Marie Zeitouni.

This choral event, rich in humanity, will be performed by the voices of soloists Myriam Leblanc, Magali Simard-Galdès, Rose Naggar-Tremblay, Jacques-Olivier Chartier and David Menzies, who will be backed by a chorus of 24 singers. Following the concert, the audience is invited to enjoy a mix-and-mingle with the artists in the Bourgie Hall lobby.

The I Grandi Concerti series – Where intensity springs to life

With the I Grandi Concerti, I Musici de Montréal catches fire in a series of exceptional concerts under the baton of Jean-Marie Zeitouni. The rich and seductive sonorities of the expanded orchestra take over Bourgie Hall at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Sharing the stage with top-flight guest artists and conductors, I Musici allows you to discover or rediscover the great classics, while revealing hidden treasures of the repertoire. Passion and grandeur await you. Concerts in the series last from 90 to 120 minutes, including a 20-minute intermission.

Magali Simard-Galdès – soprano

PROGRAM

• Connesson, Liturgies de lumière
• Vivaldi, Dixit Dominus RV 807
• Brahms, Geistliches Lied, Op. 30
• Lauridsen, Lux Æterna

Eternal Light

Tuesday, October 15, 2019, at 7:30 pm
Bourgie Hall at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

Myriam Leblanc – soprano
Magali Simard-Galdès – soprano
Rose Naggar-Tremblay – mezzo soprano
Jacques-Olivier Chartier – tenor
David Menzies – tenor
Jean-Marie Zeitouni – conductor

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