Music Toronto presents us with a rare opportunity to hear contemporary piano music in a mainstream concert series. Louise Bessette brings the full spectrum from familiar to brand-new to her Tuesday-evening recital at the Jane Mallett Theatre.
You can check out all the details here.
Bessette plays with a combination of a deep iron will leavened by a lyrical surface — perfect for the music of Olivier Messiaen, with which she is most closely identified.
To give you a sample, here is the promotional clip from Les oiseaux, a 2008 album Bessette recorded for Analekta:
John Terauds
(Photo of Louise Bessette courtesy of the Centre de musique canadienne au Québec)
John Terauds, Editor-Emeritus of Ludwig van Toronto, is currently a Divinity student at the University of Toronto and a church music director. He joined the Toronto Star in 1988, was the classical music critic from 2005 to 2012, and continues as a freelance critic for the paper. He is the co-author of Roy Thomson Hall: A Portrait, a book written with Toronto Star Colleague, William Littler.
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