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Yes, it was first composed in 2001 with different instrumentation. It was adapted for EMV in 2017. Thanks for asking !

Thanks for commenting!

Technically, no but at the time is was considered scary looking! ;-)

You should definitely give the baroque bassoon a try!!

Thanks for the comment! Description and title now corrected :-)

@@EarlyMusicVancouver That's great! thanks for the edit ... 💖

Yes! Wonderful music, and lots of drama, and definitely stalker behaviour!!

Haha! Thanks @barbarablakely9447. I now have this excellent image of the many string players I know all running after horses in a field trying desperately to pull out a hair! 😆

lol nice one!

Our pleasure!

Hi @tilmanvondelft, the concert was streamed but we only had it licensed for public viewing for a year, and so the concert is no longer available :-( I might see if we can clip a piece or two and upload them...

Hello @contrabombarde1216! I'm sorry for the slow reply. This ensemble was actually an ad hoc group pulled together for this concert, and I do not believe there is any other recorded music of this specific ensemble. However, a lot of these singers are either current or former members of www.musicaintima.org/, vancouverchamberchoir.com/, and vancouvercantatasingers.com/. Here are two other videos that feature conductor Kathleen Allan with this ensemble ruclips.net/video/_vlErTSaZYA/видео.htmlsi=GMJ0wknPzH6wV2QS, ruclips.net/video/LdKtivhcemU/видео.htmlsi=Bb3VoJC-8ZZyfb5p

Thanks for letting us know @LidClassic

Thanks for listening and commenting @janeloughborough1184

Thanks for commenting @donnap5906 and good point! We'll add this info to the video description. Ensemble Mirabilia is co-founded by Myriam Leblanc (soprano) and Grégoire Jeay (flute). They maintain a core group of artists that adapts depending on the programming. In this program they are joined by Antoine Malette-Chénier (baroque harp), Mélisande Corriveau (bass viol), and Early Music Vancouver's own Chloe Meyers (violin) and Alexander Weimann (harpsichord/organ).

@@EarlyMusicVancouver Thank you for your response. I knew these were early instruments, but was hoping for year and make, especially for the Baroque harp. Also, is that multi-course?

Hello again @donnap5906. We're working on getting more detail about the instruments, in particular Antoine's harp. More soon! Our website provides additional information about the organ www.earlymusic.bc.ca/the-wolff-chamber-organ/ and harpsichord www.earlymusic.bc.ca/the-single-manual-italian-harpsichord-built-by-craig-tomlinson/

Thanks again, @@EarlyMusicVancouver. I appreciate your efforts!

I also am very curious about the harpsichord being played in this show. It looks and sounds fab!

I agree 100% The attention to detail that EMV is putting into these videos is outstanding. I have been going down a rabbit hole exploring the forte piano and their other theorbo video with Mr.Harris. I hope we can see more of this kind of unique and beautiful content!

Thank you @mabdub and @denruby910 for watching and for your lovely feedback. We have plans for more of this style of demo/doc video. It is great to hear that they are appreciated. We'll have another one coming out very soon with Nate Helgesen about the baroque bassoon! Please do subscribe and check back with us often :-)

@EarlyMusicVancouver 0 seconds ago Thank you for your wonderful comments. @mabdub Loved reading how you discovered Viviana, Paul and the instruments. A great story. We are very excited to own one of Paul's instrument and we try to use our small but interesting collection of instruments as much as possible. There are wonderful concerts with the Graf being booked for 2025 and 2026 so I hope you will be pleased when we can reveal what those are. There is a Walter piano on which to play Mozart at the University of British Columbia. Someday it would be wonderful to have an earlier piano made by Paul McNulty. Thank you for your interest. It's a pleasure to know these videos are appreciated and we have more coming.

Thank you for clicking through and watching the full concert!

This is brilliant!

Thank you for your comment. This reply is from the artist herself, Mélisande McNabney. "Thank you for your nice comment! Yes you are absolutely right, Beethoven would have composed Op. 27 no.2 on his Walter 5-octave piano. As a historically informed performer, I allow for some flexibility in the stance I take. If I approach the piece from the perspective of the composer creating the work, I would play it on a Walter. This perspective is extremely interesting, but it does mean you need as many as 7 different fortepianos to play all of Beethoven's sonatas, which are not always at hand. You might even need two different pianos for one single sonata (fortepianist Tom Beghin makes an excellent point that the Hammerklavier was written on two different pianos, Streicher and Broadwood: hdl.handle.net/1813/111270) In the present performance, playing on EMV's beautiful Graf, I approached the piece from a socio-historical perspective. I imagine that I am, say, a viennese woman in her forties, and have just received a new fortepiano by Conrad Graf, perhaps bought for my daughter who is also a pianist. As I sit down at the instrument with some nostalgia, I start playing my favorite sonata, which I had learned in my youth... Did Beethoven ever play this sonata on his Graf? Maybe, maybe not, but many people in the general public must have done so at home!"

Thank you for your response. Of course, there would have been people who heard and played music on older instruments and then later on graduated to better pianos like the Graf. I'm sure there must have even been people during Beethoven's lifetime who played the Moonlight Sonata on the special double strug piano that Graf made especially for Beethoven. I've been following the resurgence of interest in period pianos for a few years and have made a point to watch videos of the first and second Warsaw competitions on period instruments. Paul McNulty's replica pianos have been an interest of mine for the last couple of decades. Until I first heard his replications I thought actual period pianos sounded the way they do becasue they were old, it didn't occur to me that they sounded like that when they were new and that their sound hadn't really changed all that much from when they were first made many generations ago. It was a revelation for me. I've developed a kind of addiction to the beautiful sound of period pianos and that includes Paul McNulty's copies. I'm so happy that EMV was able to purchase one of his special instruments. @@EarlyMusicVancouver

@mabdub, just a quick note to say that we have another new video coming out this week that features Mélisande speaking about our Graf copy by Paul McNulty. She takes us through the characteristics of the fortepiano, in comparison with harpsichord and the modern piano, and speaks about the sound of the Graf. This video will be released on Tuesday, March 12. Please do come back and let us know what you think!