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A Lucie Horsch and MCO double bill

A few years back we filmed our first concert with teenage Dutch recorder player Lucie Horsch. While she was relatively unknown at the time, the video went viral — earning over 200,000 hits.

Today, she is a leading ambassador for the recorder, which has claim to being the most beguiling classical instrument ever invented. The Decca-signed virtuoso is the “latest big thing in recorder playing” (The Guardian) who possesses “fearsome virtuosity and superb technique” (BBC Music Magazine). At the MCO, we can’t help but feel sorry for those who missed her past two concerts with us. Nearly everyone is obliged to play the recorder in elementary school. But where most of us squawked and hooted, Horsch flutters and trills with the graceful agility of a master quickly in the making.

Speaking of birds, sparrow songs can be overhead in Lucie’s home performance of Bach’s Bourrée Anglais(from Partita BWV 1013) in this online concert. These are the sorts of charming, natural details we sometimes get with home recordings. Also on the program is Lucie’s performance of Louis Andriessen’s exotic Sweet from inside the sanctuary of a beautiful and wonderfully resonant Dutch church.

Our 20 May online concert is also rich with performances, filmed at Crescent Fort Rouge, highlighting members of our orchestra. This includes two baroque duos from violinists Karl Stobbe and Rachel Kristenson. It further includes Tchaikovsky’s mysterious Lensky’s aria for oboe and piano and Glick’s Old Toronto Klezmer, with the stellar Caitlin Broms-Jacobs performing the oboe part in both cases.

How uplifting to have this opportunity to spotlight our cherished orchestra players at this, the second concert of the MCO’s 2020-21 Spring and Summer Festival! We’ve sorely missed regularly getting together as a band, just as we’ve sorely missed seeing you. This makes our online concerts — produced safely in adherence to government protocols — all the more overdue and fulfilling until we can resume regular concerts.

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