Our Main Building and galleries will not be open to the public for Nuit Blanche. Access to “Hopes and Fears Assembly” will be on the northwest side of the Main Building.

July 23, 2020

Three Cellos Tie Some Knots

Mélisande Corriveau, Elinor Frey & Andrea Stewart

Overview

This video is no longer available for public viewing.

Baroque cellists Mélisande Corriveau, Elinor Frey (direction) and Andrea Stewart perform music by Giuseppe Dall’Abaco, J.S. Bach, and Maxime McKinley.*

Baroque Cellos Mélisande Corriveau, Elinor Frey and Andrea Stewart

Program

Prelude from Suite No 3 in C Major for unaccompanied cello
J.S. Bach (1685–1750)
Performed by Elinor Frey

Sarabande from Suite No 3 in C Major for unaccompanied cello
J.S. Bach (1685–1750)
Performed by Andrea Stewart

Gigue from Suite No 3 in C Major for unaccompanied cello
J.S. Bach (1685–1750)
Performed by Mélisande Corriveau

Minuetto – Menuet en Rondeau – Minuetto from Cello Duo in A Minor, ABV 49
Guiseppe Clemente Dall’Abaco (1710–1810)
Performed by Andrea Stewart and Elinor Frey

Excerpt from Borromean Knots* (2020) for three cellos
Maxime McKinley (b. 1979)
Performed by Andrea Stewart, Elinor Frey and Mélisande Corriveau

Adagio from Cello Trio No 1, ABV 54
Guiseppe Clemente Dall’Abaco (1710–1810)
Performed by Andrea Stewart, Elinor Frey and Mélisande Corriveau

Borromean Knots (2020) was commissioned by Harbourfront Centre for the 2020 Toronto Music Garden season, with the generous support of the SOCAN Foundation.