Press Release

Unfinished Symphonies

The Orchestre Métropolitain du Grand Montréal presents its first concert of the season

Monday, September 17, at 7:30 pm, Saint-Jean-Baptiste Church, 309, Rachel Street East, Montreal

Schubert’s Unfinished Symphony marks one of the most famous passages in music history, though the composer never had a chance to hear it, since it was only presented for the first time some 47 years after his death. The first movement is above all tragic, in spite of the great tenderness of its second theme, while the second and final movement is dominated by a feeling of serenity.

With only three movements, Bruckner’s Symphony No. 9 was also unfinished. The mysterious first movement, with hard sonorities and superhuman flights, is succeeded by a second movement at once terrifying and energetic, and a third movement - the ethereal adagio - that conjures up a sense of eternity. Undoubtedly the mystical masterpiece by the composer dubbed the “minstrel of God”.

Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Conductor

Program

• Franz Schubert: Symphony No. 8, “Unfinished”
• Anton Bruckner: Symphony No. 9 in D Minor

Tickets: $10 to $37,95, on sale at the OM, 514-598-0870, ext. 21

Le Conseil des Arts de Montréal en tournée
Friday, September 21, 8 pm
Hochelaga-Maisonneuve(Festival d’automne Orgue et couleurs)
Très-Saint-Nom-de-Jésue Church - 4215, Adam Street, 514-872-2200

The Orchestre Métropolitain du Grand Montréal offers free pre-concert talks one hour before the concert given by OM’s violinist, Claudio Ricignuolo.

The Orchestre Métropolitain du Grand Montréal wishes to thank its governmental partners: the CAM, the CALQ and the CCA.

Source: Danielle Lachance, directrice des communications, 514-598-0870, ext. 25

[7248] News posted Monday, September 10, 2007.