Canadian soprano Barbara Hannigan and French pianist Bertrand Chamayou have partnered for a recital tour that may see them carry out in Toronto on November 28. It’s the primary North American recital tour for Hannigan in seven years.
The acclaimed soprano is understood for her dramatic performances, and with mysticism and mysteries because the themes for this system, it’s an opportunity to listen to Hannigan in a showcase of her abilities.
The 2 artists launched the album Messiaen on the Alpha Classics label earlier this yr, and have toured Europe with this system they’re presenting in Toronto.
The Artists
Barbara Hannigan is a local of Nova Scotia, the place she started her musical schooling. She moved west to pursue her research on the College of Toronto, graduating with a Bachelor of Music diploma, adopted by a Grasp of Music diploma. She subsequently continued her research on the Banff Centre, and later on the Royal Conservatory of The Hague.
After leaving her mark in a excessive profile performing profession, she started so as to add conducting by main the orchestra whereas she sang, together with a famend efficiency of György Ligeti’s Mysteries of the Macabre in 2011.
Alongside together with her worldwide profession as a soloist and performer, right now she’s additionally busy on the rostrum as a conductor. Her engagements embrace:
- Principal Visitor Conductor of Göteborgs Symfoniker (2019 – current)
- Première Artiste Invitée of Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France (2022 – current)
- Affiliate Artist of London Symphony Orchestra (2022 – current)
- Principal Visitor Conductor of Lausanne Chamber Orchestra (beginning in 2024/25)
- Chief Conductor and Creative Director of Iceland Symphony Orchestra (beginning in August 2026)
- Reinbert de Leeuw Professor of Music at Royal Academy of Music London (2023 – current)
Pianist Bertrand Chamayou is named a famous interpreter of French music, and has carried out as a soloist on a number of the world’s most famous phases, together with Wigmore Corridor, Théâtre des Champs Elysées, Elbphilharmonie, Berlin Philharmonie and Concertgebouw Amsterdam, and with excessive profile ensembles just like the New York Philharmonic, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Staatskapelle Berlin, and lots of others.
Chamayou has been co-Creative Director of Pageant Ravel since 2021, celebrating the work of the French composer in Basque nation.
The Program
The Grammy Award profitable Canadian soprano is understood for creating attention-grabbing and modern live performance applications, and the theme underlying the music of her present recital tour is one among mysticism and meditation.
“This distinctive recital takes us on a religious path, starting with Messiaen’s youthful and ecstatic songs in reward of heaven and earth, by the deep mysticism of Scriabin, and culminating within the epic virtuosity of John Zorn’s ‘Jumalattaret’, a piece drawing its inspiration from Finnish goddesses of the Kalevala. For Bertrand and I, it’s actually a “journey” to carry out this transcendent music collectively, and we love bringing our audiences with us on this journey,” she says in a press release.
This system contains:
- Olivier Messiaen: Chants de terre et de ciel
- Alexander Scriabin: Poème-nocturne, op. 61
- Alexander Scriabin: Vers la flamme, op. 72
- John Zorn: Jumalattaret
Olivier Messiaen’s track cycle is a private mediation on the composer’s pleasure in religion and household life, together with marriage and parenting. Musically, the work incorporates sophisticated rhythms and luxurious colors.
In between Hannigan’s performances, Chamayou will carry out two solo piano works by Alexander Scriabin, each of which delve into musical expressions of dreamy ideas. Poème-nocturne is evocative of these moments between sleeping and waking, and Vers la flamme places the character of fireside to music. Scriabin’s deeper mysticism contrasts with Messiaen’s work, written as a younger composer, and infused with a youthful spirituality.
The live performance closes with the glowing virtuosity of Zorn’s Jumalattaret. John Zorn’s Jumalattaret was impressed by Finland’s nationwide epic poem, Kalevala. Premiered by Hannigan in 2018, it’s a putting work that requires mastery of method, and takes its inspiration from the feminine goddesses of Finnnish mythology.
- Discover out extra in regards to the recital in Toronto’s Koerner Corridor [HERE].
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Anya Wassenberg is a Toronto Metropolis Editor at Ludwig Van. She is an skilled freelance author, blogger and writing teacher.
