Jeremy Denk with Les Violons du Roy
This performance was originally scheduled for Friday, February 5, 2021.
Led by the charismatic,MacArthur ‘genius’ award-winning pianist Jeremy Denk, Quebec’s Les Violins de Roy perform Renaissance and Baroque works culminating with J.S. Bach’s Keyboard Concerti in E Major and D Minor.
“Is Les Violons du Roy perhaps the best early-music ensemble in North America.” (The Washington Post)
“Mr. Denk is a pianist you want to hear no matter what he performs, in whatever combination – both for his penetrating intellectual engagement with the music and for the generosity of his playing.” (The New York Times)
Presented in association with the Bureau du Québec.
Program:
Hildegard von Bingen: O virtus Sapientiae, transcribed for strings*
William Byrd: Haec Dies, transcribed for strings*
Thomas Morley: Christes Crosse, transcribed for strings*
Claudio Monteverdi: Zefiro torna e di soavi accenti
Johann Sebastian Bach: Keyboard Concerto in E Major, BWV 1053
Heinrich Franz von Biber: Battalia à 10 - Sonata di Marche
Henry Purcell: Fantasia a 4 in D Minor, Z. 739
John Dowland: Lachrimae, or Seaven Teares
Carlo Gesualdo: Moro, lasso, al mio duolo, transcribed for strings*
Johann Sebastian Bach: Keyboard Concerto in D Minor, BWV 1052
*All transcriptions by Jeremy Denk and Les Violons du Roy
This performance was originally scheduled for Friday, February 5, 2021.
DETAILS
273 Bloor Street West
TELUS Centre for Performance and Learning
Toronto ON M5S 1W2
Canada
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273 Bloor Street West
TELUS Centre for Performance and Learning
Toronto ON M5S 1W2
Canada