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Amati brings its unique musicality to blend with classical music's and opera's most beautiful melodies, along with pop music and motion picture soundtracks. From Vivaldi to Gilles Vigneault, well known titles are reinvinted by Amati's strings magic and beautiful arrangements.

This concert is blessed with a passion that brings music to new heights, and most originally MC'ed by Robert Blondin.

Along with Amati, leave for Italy, its sceneries, aromas and masterpieces! Napolitan tunes, opera, classical music and popular melodies are on the menu of this trip.

Recipe :
Napolitan tunes and orchestral smiles, sun-filled and dressed with garlic, alongside an olive-oiled presentation...Flying toward Italia, by means of the Arlesiana and Traviata operas... Blessed by the tenor's rendering of the "E la solita stori", "Nessun dorma" and other troubling arias... MC'ed by Robert Blondin, sharing with you the lights of Tuscany and other rural trattorias dreams!

This fascinating trip on the wings of music that came from Eastern Europe will allow you to discover the life and time of this nomadic people through typically tzigane composers or well-known others inspired by them, such as Brahms, Bartok, Hubay, Sarasate and Weiner. An Aventure overfilled with vitality and virtuosity.

L'Ensemble offers you a wonderfull affair with some of the most beautiful tunes and duets out of the lyrical repertoire. Thanks to well-known solists, enhanced by the picturesques descriptions of Robert Blondin, this romantic experience will take you from Figaro's Wedding to Viennese operettes with midway stops to Gershwin's and West Side Story.

This show was first performed before an audience of more than 5000, at the Complexe Desjardins, Montreal, Festival Montréal en Lumière 2002.

With Amati and guest solists, let yourself be swept away through waltzs and polkas. You'll be living out a viennese dream along with the music of Strauss, Lehar, Kalman and many more.

Les grands classiques Bach – Mozart – Stravinsky)
Oeuvres de jeunesse (Rossini – Mendelssohn – Mozart)
Italiana (Respighi – Vivaldi – Puccini – Verdi – Rossini – Marcello – Donizetti)
Suites et Sérénades (Holst – Elgar – Grieg – Wolf – Parry – Tchaïkovski – Dag Wiren
Mendelssohn (Youth Symphony no 1, do major - Youth Symphony no 3, mi minor - Youth Symphony no 10, si minor - Octuor for four violins, two altos et two cellos, mi bémol major, op. 20)
Musique anglaise (Warlock – Parry – Delius – Elgar – Britten – Bridge)
Concert with guest solist / Répertoire available upon request