August 10 2013, Elinor Frey - solo cello

Concert Review
Many thanks to Elinor Frey for sharing the unique and expressive voice of her cello with us at yesterday’s L’Oasis Musicale concert. Elinor’s concert was elegantly framed by two of Bach’s most celebrated works: the Suite in G and the Ciaccona from the Partita in D minor, originally written for violin, but which Elinor played with great skill and passion on her 5-stringed Beaulieu cello. In between were a delightful group of pieces by Italian cello-composers of the 17th century. Throughout, Elinor played with a lightness of touch, beautiful phrasing and flawless intonation and held the audience in hushed appreciation. Elinor will also be appearing at the Salle Bourgie’s Baroque Matinees series on Thursday 19th September at 11am. 

samedi 10 août 2013 / Saturday 10th August 2013
16h 30 / 4:30 pm

 Christ Church Cathedral, Montreal
Ste-Catherine/University. Metro McGill.

 Contribution volontaire. Freewill donation.

                                       Elinor Frey, violoncelle solo cello
     La voce del violoncello


Suite no. 1 in G major, BWV 1007 J.S. Bach (1685-1750)
Toccata no. 5 in e minor                                   Francesco Paolo Supriani (1678-1753)
Capriccio no. 1 in c minor                            Giuseppe Maria Dall'Abaco (1710-1805)
Passa Galli                                                                Giovanni Battista Vitali (1632-1729)
Sonata no. 5 in c minor                                                    Domenico Galli (1649-1697)
Capriccio no. 6 in e minor                                                 Giuseppe Maria Dall'Abaco 
Toccata no. 10 in d minor                                                     Francesco Paolo Supriani   
Ciaccona from Partita in d minor, BWV 1004                            J.S. Bach (1685-1750)


August 3 2013 - Alex Ross, organ

Thank you to everyone who came to Alex Ross's excellent organ recital yesterday. We hope you enjoy this review from an impressed audience member. (If you would like to do a concert review, please email l'oasismusicale@gmail.com!)

Concert Review
Montreal is the North American city, more than any other, where the pipe organ is king. Buxtehude, Bach and Messiaen are the crown princes. Alex Ross, organ scholar at Christ ChurchCathedral, did the occasional organ concert-goer a service this past Saturday by introducing us to some other members of the royal family. Perhaps we have heard Langlais but who among us peasants ever thought that even Amadeus composed for the organ king. Alex, student turned teacher, started us off with the virtuosity of Joseph Bonnet, the opening passage, a brief toccata clearly indebted to Bach, and, after Bonnet, Alex skillfully led us through Karam, Lübeck and Langlais to the complexity of Mozart. We were in turn surprised by Bourgeois’ Serenade composed in 11/8 and 13/8 time as a lively postlude for Bourgeois’ own wedding. The closing work was Jehan Alain’s Litanies in which the comic is eventually resolved into the serious and reason gives way to faith. Bravo, bravo, Alex, arcibravo! Evviva the King of Instruments!
samedi 3 août 2013 / Saturday 3rd August 2013
16h 30 / 4.30 pm
Christ Church Cathedral, Montreal
Ste-Catherine/University
Alex Ross, organ  / orgue
'The King of Instruments / Le Roi des instruments'
Variations de concert op. 1 (1906)
          I. Introduction et thème
          II. 1er variation
          III. 2me variation
          IV. 3me variation
          V. 4me variation et finale                                                                Joseph Bonnet  (1884–1944)

Divertimento (1959)                                                                           Frederick Karam (1926–1978)

Præambulum in E-Dur LübWV 7                                                        Vincent Lübeck (1654–1740)

Suite médiévale: Méditation sur ubi caritas et Jesu dulcis memoria (1950)       
                                                                                                                        Jean Langlais (1907–1991)

Fantaisie en fa mineur K. 594 (1790)
          I. Adagio
          II. Allegro
          III. Adagio                                                                                            W. A. Mozart (1756–1791)

Serenade op. 22 (1990)                                                                               Derek Bourgeois (n. 1941)



Litanies JA 119 (1937)                                                                                     Jehan Alain (1911–1940)

July 27 2013 - Agape Trio

Congratulations to the Agape Trio for a wonderful concert last Saturday. The early Shostakovich trio (written when he was just a teenager) was a revelation, the Mozart breezed along like a sunny summer's afternoon, and the Beethoven Ghost Trio slow movement held us all in stillness and awe as the beautiful music floated over us, way up into the cathedral's painted ceiling. Thank you Haruyo, Flaviu and Loredana, and we look forward to having you back again at L'Oasis Musicale.

 samedi 27 juillet 2013 / Saturday 27th July 2013
Christ Church Cathedral
16h30 / 4:30 PM

Agape Trio

 

Piano Trio in C major, K. 548  
W.A. Mozart (1756-1791) Allegro, Andante cantabile, Allegro

Piano Trio no.1 in C minor, Opus 8
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)

Piano Trio No.1 in D minor, Opus 49                                                     
Felix Mendelssohn (1809 – 1847)
Molto allegro ed agitato, Andante con moto tranquillo

Scherzo: Leggiero e vivace, Finale: Allegro assai appassionato 
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