SEAson
2024-2025
Our seasons use a culinary vocabulary that playfully reflects the approach Les Boréades has always taken to the pleasures of the table. The Ratatouille, Minestrone and Fish & Chips series are dedicated to the French, Italian and English repertoires of the 17th and 18th centuries, while the Strudel and Banquet series are devoted to exploring the German and classical repertoires and producing large-scale programs. The Mignardises series, meanwhile, is reserved, whatever the repertoire, for the mastery of ensemble members or distinguished guests; each, supported by a few colleagues, can propose recitals and present his or her discoveries and favorites…
6 musicians and 2 dancers
DE LA PAVANE AU SWING
A show that traces the history of couple dancing from the Renaissance to the interwar period.
DATE
Sunday, September 29, 2024
03:30 PM
LOCATION
Théâtre Rouge
Conservatoire de Musique de Montréal
New version with revamped staging.
THE PASSION OF REASON
Œuvres de Thomas Preston, William Cornish, Christopher Tye, Philip Glass et Chiel Meijering.
The Renaissance was particularly fond of consort music, i.e. music played from treble to bass by instruments of the same family but of different sizes.
Date
Thursday, November 28, 2024
7:30 PM
LOCATION
Auditorium des Archives Nationales
DU BAROQUE À LA BOUCHE
Œuvres de Boismortier, Telemann, Delalande et Biber.
It was in the 17th century, among several major social and aesthetic transformations, that the modern foundations of both culinary art and Western music were established.
Date
Friday, March 21, 2025
7:30 PM
LOCATION
Auditorium de la Grande Bibliothèque de Montréal
Innovative concept: food and music pairing
With soprano Jacqueline Woodley
CONCERT SPIRITUEL 1730
Cantates, motets et concertos de Delalande, Campra, Colin de Blamont, Clérambault, Mouret, Vivaldi, Blavet et Boismortier
In operation in Paris from 1725 to the Revolution, the Concert spirituel remains the first public concert institution worthy of the name.
Date
Friday, May 16, 2025
7:30 PM
LOCATION
Auditorium de la Grande Bibliothèque de Montréal
