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LOUISE BESSETTE IN MONTREAL, TORONTO AND EDMONTON
Montreal November 7, 2009 - On Sunday, November 22, at 4:00 PM, Montrealpianist Louise Bessette brings to eXcentris the new version of her program "The Eternal Bells". This new version will be heard for the first time in Montreal.
The pianist will amplify the importance of chimes and bells as a means of inspirations for composers. Louise Bessette shall judiciously perform works by Alkan, Arcuri, Debussy, Ducol, Grieg, Liszt, Louie, Messiaen, Mompou, Murail, Pärt, Provost, Ravel, Scelsi and Turina. The public is thus invited to appreciate how campaniles stood the test of time.
Ms. Bessette has recorded one of the works on this poetic evening for the soundtrack of the new French film by Julie Lopes-Curval, "Mères et filles", starring Catherine Deneuve and Marie-Josée Croze. Les cloches , by Charles-Valentin Alkan, is opening the movie as it will open Louise Bessette's recital. She has recorded other works by Alkan for this movie (one of them with cellist Yegor Dyachkov), and a short extract by Grieg. Shown at the International Montreal Film Festival in August 2009, the film has opened to wide acclaim in Europe and will come to theaters in Quebec soon.
On Thursday, November 26, at 8:00 PM, at the St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts, for the serie Music Toronto, Louise Bessette will join the famous Arditti Quartet for the world premiere of Le tumulte des flots, a quintet written by Montreal composer Serge Arcuri. This work is written thanks to a grant from the Canada Council for the Arts.
The work will be repeated on Saturday, November 28, at 8:00 PM, at the Edmonton Convocation Hall, for the serie organized by the Edmonton Chamber Music Society. This concert will be broadcast by CBC.
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Other releases:
- 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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