Canadian pianist Katherine Chi plays Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 2. Tchaikovsky’s final and most passionate piece, Symphony No. 6 “Pathétique”, rounds out this program.
Dvořák & Brahms
Jonathan Crow, concertmaster for the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, makes his RSO debut with Brahms’ Violin Concerto. Dvořák’s Serenade showcases the RSO’s wind section.
Jeremy Dutcher with the RSO
2019 Juno Award winner Jeremy Dutcher’s music shape-shifts between classical and traditional, between operatic power and the tuneful melodies of his Wolastoq First Nation.
Coming Together
Freedom – the freedom of our physical selves, our movements, and our thoughts – is the focus of this concert. Carmen Braden’s What Happens When We Move and Cris Derksen’s Five Bucks a Head explore movement across the Canadian landscape and Canada’s treaty obligations and history. Frederic Rzewski’s minimalist touchstone Coming Together unravels and reconstructs the text of a letter written by Sam Melville, an architect and eventual casualty of the Attica prison uprising.
Beethoven String Quartet
Two of the most indispensable units in chamber music – the string quartet and the wind quintet – anchor this concert with major works. The RSCP strings continue their cycle of Beethoven string quartets with Op. 59 No. 2, a quintet commissioned by the Russian ambassador in Vienna and making use of the same folk song theme as was treated by composers such as Mussorgsky, Rachmaninoff, and Stravinsky. David Maslanka’s Wind Quintet No. 3 was inspired by the composer’s interest in Bach chorales, and is both familiar and forward-looking.
Bach to Baroque
Valerie Hall returns to join the Regina Symphony Chamber players, demonstrating the versatility of the harpsichord as both continuo instrument and as soloist. Concertmaster Christian Robinson and principal oboist Tamsin Johnston take the stage for Bach’s Concerto for Oboe and Violin.