Labadie Conducts Mendelssohn’s “Italian” Symphony
^2026-2027

This program breathes joy, momentum, and pure vitality. Gluck’s luminous world, with Orpheus and Eurydice, opens the evening in a breath of elegance and classical grace. Young and impetuous, Beethoven extends this exuberance with his First Piano Concerto—sparkling with freshness and perfectly suited to the natural musicality of Alexandra Dovgan, a rising star of the piano. Bernard Labadie then invites Mendelssohn with his Italian Symphony, where one can almost hear the light, sunlit piazzas, and spontaneous dances. Through this program, filled with contagious joie de vivre, emerges the idea of music whose enthusiasm and elegance remain as communicative two centuries after these works were born.

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A great classic of the repertoire that takes you on an emotional journey.

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Artistes

Orchestre symphonique de Montréal

Bernard Labadie, conductor

Alexandra Dovgan, piano

Œuvres

Christoph Willibald Gluck, Overture and Ballet Music from Orpheus and Eurydice
I. Ouverture (3 min)
II. Ballet des Ombres heureuses (Act 2, scene 2) (6 min 45)
VIII. Chaconne (Final Ballet from Act 3) (7 min)

Ludwig van Beethoven, Piano Concerto no. 1, op. 15

Intermission (20 min)

Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Symphony no. 4, op. 90, “Italian”

Estimated duration 1:45

Labadie Conducts Mendelssohn’s “Italian” Symphony

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