Human Passions (Gatineau)
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(repeat in Gatineau)
Sunday, November 2, 2025 at 3 p.m.
Mission Catholique Portugaise de l’Esprit Saint (MCPSE)
13 Sainte-Bernadette, Gatineau (Québec) J8X 2C3
We welcome the brilliant Italian violinist Elisa Citterio—former Music Director of Tafelmusik and now a distinguished professor of Baroque violin and viola at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg. After taking the stage for the first time with Thirteen Strings, along with Thirteen Strings, she will lead the young and talented string players of the Conservatoire de musique de Gatineau in this November 2nd concert. The young players will join Thirteen Strings for one piece in this vibrant program of Italian Baroque music that explores the full spectrum of human passion.
“The Intention of Music is not only to please the Ear, but to express Sentiments, strike the Imagination, affect the Mind and command the Passions.”
Nothing has changed since Francesco Geminiani wrote these words in the Preface of “Art of Playing on the Violin” in 1751.
Today more than ever the human soul thirsts for passions and emotions, it needs to be touched by an art that, despite the race towards the digitization of today’s world, expresses the best of itself in the live performance as an unrepeatable and unique moment.
Each piece of music is born from a moment of inspiration dictated by a movement of the soul and in this program, I tried to pair musical pages with a strong expressive message, sometimes immortalized by a title chosen by the composer himself.
The ultimate desire of every interpreter/performer is that the listener leaves the concert hall a little enriched in the soul just as it happens to the musician himself.
Happy listening!
Elisa Citterio
Sunday, November 2, 2025 | 3 p.m.
Mission Catholique Portugaise de l’Esprit Saint (MCPSE)
13 Sainte-Bernadette, Gatineau (Québec) J8X 2C3
Human Passions
Elisa Citterio, violin and conductor
With the strings of the Conservatoire de Gatineau
Program:
Marie-Claire Saindon – 50th anniversary “Fanfare for Strings”
Evaristo Felice Dall’Abaco – Concerto grosso à più istrumenti in D major, Op. 5 n. 6 (joy)
Pietro Locatelli – Il Pianto di Arianna – Concerto grosso (struggling)
Giuseppe Valentini – Concerto for 4 violins, viola and basso continuo (excitement)
Tomaso Albinoni – Sonata a cinque for two violins, two violas, and basso continuo in C major Op. 2 No. 2
Antonio Vivaldi – “Amato bene” Concerto for violin, strings and basso continuo (love troubles)
Arcangelo Corelli – Concerto grosso op 6 no 4
| Select ticket type | General Admission / Admission générale, Reserved section (Floor) / Section réservée (parterre), Reserved section (Balcony) / Section réservée (balcon), Student / Étudiant(e), Under 35 years old / Moins de 35 ans |
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