Mozart and Fauré with Louis Lortie and Eun Sun Kim
To music lovers’ great delight, pianist Louis Lortie will be back with the OSM to take us on a jaunt from the world of Mozart’s Vienna to the Parisian concert halls in the time of Fauré. Music Director of the San Francisco Opera Eun Sun Kim will also conduct Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition, a highly imaginative and vividly coloured work enlivened by Ravel’s brilliant orchestration.
To music lovers’ great delight, pianist Louis Lortie will be back with the OSM to take us on a jaunt from the world of Mozart’s Vienna to the Parisian concert halls in the time of Fauré. Music Director of the San Francisco Opera Eun Sun Kim will also conduct Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition, a highly imaginative and vividly coloured work enlivened by Ravel’s brilliant orchestration.
Artists
Orchestre symphonique de Montréal
Eun Sun Kim, conductor
Louis Lortie, piano
Programme
Brahms, Variations on a Theme by Haydn, op. 56a (19 min)
Mozart, Rondo in D major, for piano and orchestra, K. 382 (11 min)
Intermission (20 min)
Fauré, Ballade, for piano and orchestra, op. 19 (15 min)
Mussorgsky, Pictures at an Exhibition (orch. Ravel, 35 min)
Louis Lortie
PianistCanadian pianist Louis Lortie is recognized as one of the world’s greatest and most versatile artists. He commands a broad spectrum of repertoire and a remarkable interpretive range of which his multi-award-winning recordings are a witness. A highly sought-after performer on five continents, he has established long-term partnerships with some of the greatest orchestras and conductors today.
In recital and chamber music, Louis Lortie appears in the world’s most prestigious concert venues and festivals. Recent special projects included performances of Liszt’s complete Années de pèlerinage in one evening, and Beethoven’s complete sonatas cycle broadcast on medici.tv in 2021.
A prolific recording artist, Louis Lortie’s thirty-year relationship with Chandos Records has resulted in a catalogue of over 45 award-winning recordings of repertoire from Mozart to Stravinsky. He is co-founder and Artistic Director of the LacMus International Festival on Lake Como (Italy) and a Master in Residence at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel of Brussels.