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Inspired by simple poetic forms such as Haiku, Cyrille Druart creates small visual ensembles of a dozen photographs. Excluding all superfluity, the human form is…

Rediscovered violin concertos, plus new music from Latvian and Puerto Rican composers Reviews by Graham Rickson

A trio of Wetaskiwin performers scored top marks in the Wetaskiwin Music Festival earlier this year and went on to perform stellar performances there.

Italian musical concepts can be heard in works of Catalonian Francesc Valls, Antonio Soler and Domenico Scarlatti. Iberian folk idioms can be heard in many of Scarlatti’s sonatas written for Maria Barbara, Princess of Portugal, later Queen of Spain. Valls, a generally unknown composer, created a unique setting of Psalm 42. Soler’s setting of the first part of the Lamentations of Jeremiah suits the Lenten season with viola da gamba solo and double bass accompanying the voice. The low strings give the works a unique character. This concert is an opportunity to hear music rarely published or...

Italian musical concepts can be heard in works of Catalonian Francesc Valls, Antonio Soler and Domenico Scarlatti. Iberian folk idioms can be heard in many of Scarlatti’s sonatas written for Maria Barbara, Princess of Portugal, later Queen of Spain. Valls, a generally unknown composer, created a unique setting of Psalm 42. Soler’s setting of the first part of the Lamentations of Jeremiah suits the Lenten season with viola da gamba solo and double bass accompanying the voice. The low strings give the works a unique character. This concert is an opportunity to hear music rarely published or...