Venue: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts: Bourgie Hall

The socially-distancing Orchestre Métropolitain blazed forth so magnificently that it sounded like they were at full strength playing in their usual home, the Maison symphonique at the Place des Arts.

Recorded in the Salle Bourgie, Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts the OM in two highly contrasting Beethoven symphonies. 

From the moment Ehnes trilled the G major Op.96 into existence, he and Armstrong achieved the musical transparency that results from using fortepianos with leather hammers and gut strings, and only with great care and commitment when using modern instruments.

In collaboration with the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, musicians of the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal presented late 19th century chamber music of Spanish and French composers. 

In Montreal Richard Turp discovers a modern-day Pied Piper of Hamelin, Maurice Steger in music of 18th century Naples accompanied by Les Violons du Roy 

Richard Turp sees Vivaldi's oratorio Juditha Triumphans triumph at its Montreal premiere in a sparkling performance by Ensemble Caprice

The ensemble XVII-21 Le Baroque Nomade was warmly received in its North American debut Friday evening at Montréal’s Bourgie Hall. Their concert, titled “Venice, Mirror to the World”, was presented in conjunction with the exhibition “Splendore a Venezia: Art and Music from the Renaissance to Baroque in Venice” at the adjoining Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal.

When the nights get longer and the temperatures begin to drop, one of the best ways to cozy up is with a good concert of chamber music. I Musici de Montréal and conductor Jean-Marie Zeitouni presented “The Night Transfigured”, a program of works inspired by night to warm audiences at Bourgie Hall on Friday evening.