Work: Bacchus and Ariane, Suite no. 1

Two unusual French orchestral works bring a unity to a Philharmonic Hall programme mixing the familiar and the unfamiliar. 

Every city has its favourites, and Jan Lisiecki is Montreal’s darling. There was a sense of proprietary pride in the audience as he strode across the stage at the Maison Symphonique, to join Kazushi Ono and the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal.