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Edmonton Chamber Music Society 1999/2000 Concert Schedule


Main Series

October   6, 1999             St. Lawrence String Quartet

October  20, 1999             Marion Verbruggen, recorder
                              Bob van Asperen, harpsichord

January  12, 2000             Miro String Quartet


March     3, 2000 (Friday)    Edith Wiens, soprano
                              Betty Sudermann, piano
                              Kilburn Memorial Concert

March    29, 2000             Trio Fontenay

Early Music Series

October  20, 1999             Marion Verbruggen, recorder
                              Bob van Asperen, harpsichord

January  26, 2000             Les Voix Humaines
                              Suzie Leblabc, soprano

April    11, 2000 (Tuesday)   Anonymous 4
NOTE All concerts take place Wednesday evenings in Convocation Hall on the University of Alberta campus except that Edith Wiens takes place on a Friday evening, and that Anonymous 4 takes place on a Tuesday evening in McDougall United Church on the corner of 100 Ave and 101 St.
All programmes are subject to change without notice. 
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St. Lawrence String Quartet

This popular and dynamic Canadian quartet returns to our series.
Program

Haydn          String Quartet in d minor, Op. 76, No. 2 "Quinten"
Shostakovich   String Quartet No. 3 in F major, Op. 73
Schumann       String Quartet No. 3 in A Major, Op. 41

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Link to SLSQ homepage The SLSQ are past winners of the Banff International String Quartet Competition. In 1998 they became ensemble-in-residence at the Department of Music of Stanford University.

Marion Verbruggen & Bob van Asperen

An all-Bach program featuring this incredible recorder virtuoso.
Program

Trio Sonata in C Major, BWV 530
Ciacone from Partita 2, BWV 1004
Sonata in g minor, BWV 1034
Partita in c minor, BWV 1013
Partita in c minor, BWV 997

Link to Marion Verbruggen bio
Link to Bopb van Asperen bio
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Miro String Quartet

An exciting new quartet, winners of the 1998 Banff International String Quartet Competition. They also took Grand Prize at the 1996 Fiscoff National Chamber Music Competition.

Program

Chan Ka Nin  Quartet #3
Dvorak       Quartet in A flat Major, Op. 105
Schubert     "Rosamunde", String Quartet in a minor, D, 
804 (Op. 29, No.1)

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Les Voix Humaines

Suzie Leblanc, soprano

This great Canadian viola da Gamba duo returns, this time with soprano Suzie leblanc.

Program

Works by Le Camus, Lambert, Ste-Colombe, Coperario, Purcell, 
Jenkins and Hume.

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Program Notes

Edith Wiens, soprano and Betty Sudermann, piano

This internationally acclaimed Canadian soprano returns home for a recital.

Program

Songs of Schubert, Copland, Wolf, Willan, Britten and Brahms.


Trio Fontenay

This great young German trio has been getting rave reviews.

Program

Hummel            Quartet #3
Nikolai Roslavetz Trio No. 4 (1927)
Brahms            Trio in B Major, Op. 8

Program Notes

Anonymous 4

These four young women singers are on every audience's wish list. Moving and stylish interpretations of very early repertoire.

Program

"The Second Circle" (the lustful lovers' ring of hell in Dante's Inferno), features the music of Francesco Landini (c. 1325 - 1397), the blind Florentine organist and the most renowned of the Italian trecento composers. Landinis love songs - madrigals and ballate for two and three voices - combine seductive Italian melody with rich harmony in the French style. Anonymouns 4 will weave these exquisite songs together with poetry from Dante's Divine Comedy and Vita Nuova, on the eternal subjects of love, lust and the divine Beatrice.

list of works

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