Name: GRAND ROMANCE
Start: 2026-05-31T15:00:00-04:00
Location: Trinity-St. Paul's United Church and Centre for Faith, Justice and the Arts

Arkel Chamber Concerts

Annalee Patipatanakoon

Aaron Schwebel

Min-Jeong Koh

Sharon Wei

Hezekiah Leung

Guillaume Artus

GRAND ROMANCE

Arkel Chamber Concerts, originally founded in 2008 as Trio Arkel,  is composed of Marie Berard, violinist and Winona Zelenka, cellist, who have been sharing their artistry and imagination through the fashioning of a chamber music series that has since garnered an enthusiastic following in their hometown of Toronto. They collaborate with guest artists of international renown to present great masterpieces of the classical chamber music repertoire, from Bach to present-day living composers, in beautiful, eclectic and fascinating programs that transport and move audiences.

A Complete Tour de Force- four, then six, then Eight strings in an ecstatic journey from the classical to complete Romantic rapture!

Trinity-St. Paul's United Church and Centre for Faith, Justice and the Arts

Season 13

Arkel Chamber Concerts is a distinguished chamber music ensemble composed of renowned violinist Marie Bérard and acclaimed cellist Winona Zelenka.

<h3><strong><strong>Joseph Haydn</strong></strong>- String Quartet Op. 33 No. 1</h3><p>The Op. 33 string quartets, of which there are six, are often dubbed the “Russian” quartets, because they are dedicated to the Grand Duke Paul of Russia. No. 1 is the only one in a minor key and exhibits the freedom of form that Haydn had already adopted in his Op. 20 set. The ten-year gap between the two sets were spent directing the music for 50 operas at the Esterhazy palace in Vienna, 5 of which were his own compositions; there was also a young Italian singer named Luigia Polzelli who may have served as a distraction! In any case, Haydn announced the Op. 33 quartets as “written in a new and special way, for I have not composed any for ten years”, and they are considered to be works of yet more masterful confidence.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong><strong>Richard Strauss</strong></strong>- String Sextet from <em><em>Cappriccio</em></em></h3><p>The string septet is from Strauss’s last work for the stage, the opera <em><em>Cappricio, </em></em>composed in 1942.<em><em> </em></em>The opera takes the form of a series of elegant salon conversations that explore the question of what is more important, the words or the music to an opera. The septet begins the opera as both a prelude to the action and as the first topic of conversation, and is written in the late Romantic style of the 1880s and 1890s.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong><strong>George Enescu</strong></strong>- Octet for Strings in C Major, Op. 7</h3><p>Enescu wrote his Octet for strings in C major, Op. 7, over a span of a year and a half, completing it in 1900. He wrote of the challenge of its huge form, “I wore myself out trying to work a piece of music divided into four segments of such length that each of them was likely at any moment to break. An engineer launching his first suspension bridge over a river, could not feel more anxiety than I felt when I set out to darken my paper.”</p><p>The Octet is considered one of the few works that is a worthy successor to Mendelssohn’s celebrated Octet Op. 20.</p><p><br></p><h3>Tickets - $40*</h3><h3>Sunday, May 18, 2024 at 3:00 PM</h3><h3>Trinity St. Paul's Centre, Jeanne Lamon Hall</h3><p>Tickets will be for general seating.</p><p>Out of respect for our guests, our performance is a scent-free environment.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong><strong>Questions?</strong></strong></h3><p>Please contact <strong><strong>admin@arkelchamberconcerts.com</strong></strong> .</p><p>Not available to enjoy our performance? Please consider a donation in support of our work bringing music to our communities. A tax receipt will be available upon request - please contact <strong><strong>admin@arkelchamberconcerts.com</strong></strong> for more information.</p><p><br></p><p>Season 13 is generously sponsored by</p>

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Arkel Chamber Concerts

Annalee Patipatanakoon

Aaron Schwebel

Min-Jeong Koh

Sharon Wei

Hezekiah Leung

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Arkel Chamber Concerts

Annalee Patipatanakoon

Aaron Schwebel

Min-Jeong Koh

Sharon Wei

Hezekiah Leung

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