Corelli Confetti

Photo Vincent Lauzer et Mark Edwards
Intimate concert with Vincent Lauzer, recorder, and Mark Edwards, harpsichord

Enter the exquisitely ornamented, festive and virtuosic world of Arcangelo Corelli, and find out why François Raguenet called Italian music “so brisk and piercing, so impetuous and affecting, that the Imagination, the Senses, the Soul, and the Body itself are all betray’d into a general Transport!”

Tickets

30 $ - regular, 25 $ - 65 years and older, 15 $ - student

Notre-Dame-du-Bon-Secours Vault (metro Champ-de-Mars)
400, Saint-Paul East Street
Montreal QC
Canada

Notes de programme

Corelli Confetti

Intimate concert with Vincent Lauzer, recorder, and Mark Edwards, harpsichord
Flûtiste à bec, gravure d’après Giovanni Battista Piazzetta
Artist(s) and Ensemble(s)

Recorder, engraving by Giovanni Battista Piazzetta

Vincent Lauzer, recorder

Mark Edwards, harpsichord

Program
Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713)

Sonata for recorder and basso continuo in F major, op. 5, No.4
   Adagio
   Allegro
   Vivace
   Adagio
   Allegro

George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)

Sonata for recorder and basso continuo in D major op. 1 No. 7, HWV 365
   Larghetto
   Allegro
   Larghetto
   A tempo di Gavotti
   Allegro

Francesco Maria Veracini (1690-1768)

Sonata for recorder and basso continuo in D minor op. 1 No.2 (orig. in A minor)
   Preludio (Adagio)
   Alemanda (Larghetto)
   Siciliana (Cantabile)
   Aria (Allegro)

Arcangelo Corelli

Sonata for recorder and basso continuo in F major op. 5 No.10
   Preludio (Adagio)
   Allemanda (Allegro)
   Sarabanda (Largo)
   Giga (Allegro)
   Gavotta (Allegro)

Program Notes

Enter the exquisitely ornamented, festive and virtuosic world of Arcangelo Corelli, and find out why François Raguenet called Italian music “so brisk and piercing, so impetuous and affecting, that the Imagination, the Senses, the Soul, and the Body itself are all betray’d into a general Transport!”

Biographies

Vincent Lauzer

Hailed for his athletic and virtuoso playing and for his sensitive interpretations, recorder player Vincent Lauzer leads an active career as a performer, artistic director, and teacher. He is the artistic director of the Lamèque International Baroque Music Festival, works with Arion Baroque Orchestra to develop programs for young audiences and, since November 2022, he has been the artistic co-director of the Montreal Baroque Festival. In October 2018, his recording of Vivaldi's concertos with Arion Baroque Orchestra was awarded a Diapason d'Or by the famous French magazine Diapason.

He is the winner of several prizes in national and international competitions, including the 2015 Fernand Lindsay Career Award. He was named Révélation Radio-Canada in 2013-2014 and Breakthrough Artist of the Year at the 2012 Opus Awards. In 2012, he won First Prize at the Canadian Music Competition’s Stepping Stone and the Career Development Award from the Women’s Musical Club of Toronto.

Vincent is a member of Flûte Alors! and regularly performs as a soloist with Arion Baroque Orchestra, La Bande Montréal Baroque, the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, the Pacific Baroque Orchestra, and Les Violons du Roy. He has played in various series and festivals in Canada and in the United States as well as in Mexico, France, Germany, Spain and Belgium.

Vincent teaches at McGill University, Université du Québec à Montréal, the CAMMAC music camp, the Outaouais Recorder Society, and the Toronto Early Music Players Organization.

 

Mark Edwards

First prize winner in the Musica Antiqua Bruges International Harpsichord Competition, Canadian harpsichordist and organist Mark Edwards is recognized for his captivating performances, bringing the listener “to new and unpredictable regions, using all of the resources of his instrument, […] of his virtuosity, and of his imagination” (La Libre Belgique). He is Associate Professor of Harpsichord at Oberlin Conservatory.

He has given solo performances at a number of prominent festivals and concert series, including the Utrecht Early Music Festival, the Boston Early Music Festival, and Bozar (Brussels). He has had concerto performances with a number of award-winning ensembles, including Il Gardellino (Belgium), Neobarock (Germany), and the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, and he collaborates regularly with Les Boréades de Montréal and Les Délices (Cleveland). His début solo CD, Orpheus Descending, was released in 2017 on the early-music.com label and was reviewed warmly. 

Mark is the recipient of academic grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). He studied at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY, where he earned his Bachelor of Music with highest distinction, and completed graduate degrees at McGill University and the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg. His former teachers include Robert Hill, William Porter, and David Higgs. In 2021, he received a PhD from Leiden University after successfully defending his dissertation titled “Moving Early Music: Improvisation and the Work-Concept in Seventeenth-Century French Keyboard Performance.”