April 6, 2025
1 performance
2:30 p.m.Consummate virtuosa Isabelle Demers charms audiences with her dynamic playing and original programs.
In this concert, she transforms the Grand Orgue Pierre-Béique into an opulent orchestra, bringing out its many facets in transcriptions of works by Rimsky-Korsakov and Stravinsky.
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV, Scheherazade, op. 35: IV. Festival at Baghdad – The Sea – The Ship Breaks upon a Cliff Surmounted by a Bronze Horseman (transcr. I. Demers, 13 min.)
Elsa BARRAINE, Prelude and fugue no. 1 in G minor (11 min.)
Naji HAKIM, Hommage à Igor Stravinsky, excerpts (12 min.)
Igor STRAVINSKY, Scherzo à la Russe (transcr. I. Demers, 4 min.)
Nadia BOULANGER, Three Pieces (9 min.)
Igor STRAVINSKY, The Firebird (1919, transcr. I. Demers, 22 min.)
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Isabelle Demers
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Orchestre symphonique de Montréal (OSM)
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