Louise Bessette makes the news
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Saturday, October 26 at 8pm, at the Centennial Theatre (Bishop’s University, Lennoxville, Qc) Louise Bessette will be presenting a program of music from her upcoming CD entitled Tango Diablo!
The program includes masterpieces by Albeniz, Stravinsky, Schulhoff, and Piazzolla, in addition to the Für Louise written by Raoul Sosa, and Antoine's Tango, a lullaby-tango written in 2001 by the American Barbara Kolb and dedicated to Louise Bessette's son.
Louise Bessette has also chosen tangos stemming from Yvar Mikhashoff’s (1945-1993) Elastic Roses project. For this project, he commissioned 88 tangos from composers in 30 countries. Among Ms. Bessette’s selections are the following enticingly-titled tangos: Incitation to desire by C. Biscardi, The Exile's Café by M. Sahl, Tango Dreaming by C. Bright, the amusing Fromage dangereux by W. Schimmel, and the “tango comique” by R. Berkman, Thorn-Torn Lips.
«Sous les doigts de Louise
Bessette, c'est comme si tous
les fantômes du tango sortaient
du placard»
(Le Soleil,
Québec)
Centennial Theatre
Bishop’s University, Lennoxville, Qc
Tickets / information: (819) 822-9692
Louise Bessette & Lise Daoust
Thursday October 31 at 12:00, flutist Lise Daoust will join Louise Bessette for a duo concert. The Studio-Théâtre Stella-Artois de la Place des arts will resonate with the sound of Mozart’s sonatas in F major and C major, Quebecois jazzwoman Lorraine Desmarais’ Sonata for flute and piano, as well as a selection of Ragtimes by Scott Joplin.
“Sensitive and elegant
performances by Montrealers Lise Daoust and Louise
Bessette.”
(Classical Music Magazine, Canada)
Quoting the CD Mozart et les oiseaux
(Mozart, Messiaen, Levinas, Gougeon, Mâche),
Louise Bessette, piano, Lise Daoust, flute, Atma ACD 2 2108 (1988).
Studio-Théâtre Stella-Artois
de la Place des arts, Montréal, Qc
Tickets: (514) 842-2112
Information: Pro Musica (514) 845-0532
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Other releases:
- Un jardin musical
- Fête de la musique à Tremblant
- Pianist Louise Bessette: a French movie and a new recording
- Louise Bessette and l'Automne Messiaen at the gala for the Opus Awards
- Louise Bessette in Montreal, Toronto and Edmonton
- Louise Bessette's concerts in October 2009
- Louise Bessette's concerts in September and October 2008
- Welcome to Automne Messiaen!
- Wavre, Ottawa and Saint-Irénée
- Summer Concerts With Signs Of The Fall To Come
- Olivier Messiaen and a world premiere by Nicolas Gilbert
- Louise Bessette celebrates the centennial of Olivier Messiaen
- Louise Bessette and Les Oiseaux Exotiques
- Louise Bessette's fall activities
- Louise Bessette is going to China
- Music lovers are invited to renew the pleasure of hearing the formidable pianist Louise Bessette in two very different settings during the month of September 2007.
- Louise Bessette at the Maison Trestler and at Sainte-Pétronille
- New Recording Release – Gilles Tremblay - Louise Bessette - Ensemble Aventa
- Pianist Louise Bessette at the Salon Musicora in Paris, presented by the Conseil québécois de la Musique
- Louise Bessette and Esprit Orchestra
- Pianist Louise Bessette on CBC Radio Two and Espace Musique
- World Premiere by Serge Arcuri - Louise Bessette and I Musici de Montréal
- 49th Annual Piano Technician's Guild Convention and Technical Institute
- Louise Bessette and Aventa Ensemble
- Louise Bessette's Upcoming Activities
- Master class with pianist Louise Bessette / Concours International de piano XXe siècle d'Orléans
- Homage to Giacinto Scelsi (1905-1988)
- Louise Bessette Appointed Officier of the Ordre National du Québec
- Louise Bessette at the CCA
- Les oiseaux exotiques. In Montreal and Toronto
- Radio-concert for Easter. Carillons éternels with Louise Bessette
- Duo Bessette-Daoust
- Summer in Concert! Louise Bessette, piano
- Tango Diablo!, a solo recital by the pianist Louise Bessette
- CBC Young Composers National Competition
- Louise Bessette and the Hartford Symphony Orchestra
- Louise Bessette plays Messiaen with the NACO
- Louise Bessette in concert: December 2002
- Louise Bessette in concert: October 2002
- Oliver Messiaen: Louise Bessette and Håkon Austbø, pianists
- Louise Bessette, member of the Order of Canada
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