I Musici de Montreal
I Musici de Montréal is a chamber orchestra consisting of 15 players and features repertory that ranges from the Baroque to the modern. The group's founder and music director is Moscow-born cellist Yuli Turovsky. The ensemble gives more than 100 concerts a season and, until recently, has recorded exclusively for the British label Chandos.
Turovsky was a widely admired cellist in the Soviet Union, appearing regularly in major concerts and making recordings for the state-owned Melodiya label. He emigrated to Canada in 1976 with his wife Eleonora Turovsky, with whom he formed the Borodin Trio in 1977. In 1983, he founded I Musici de Montréal, his wife assuming duties as concertmaster and he as the conductor and occasional cello soloist. While I Musici lists its regular personnel as consisting of 15 musicians, on some occasions it augments this number, adding up to an additional 17 players for performances of certain works.
The ensemble did not give its inaugural concert until November 8, 1984, this at Montreal's McGill University. Its first recordings, however, date to the previous year. In 1987 I Musici was awarded the prize of Best Chamber Ensemble of the Year by the Canadian Council of Music. The following year the group received a Diapason d'Or for its recording of the Shostakovich Symphony No. 14. It has received numerous other awards and distinctions over the years, including a Felix and Juno for the 1996 Chandos disc containing works by Ginastera, Villa-Lobos, and Evangelista, and a CD of the year award in 2002 from the Quebec Music Council for the album The Modern Cello.
I Musici has branched out into areas beyond the concert stage and recording studio: in 1990 the ensemble embarked upon performance of music for live presentation of silent film classics, playing the score to Charlie Chaplin's City Lights (written by Chaplin himself) for an audience at the Grand Théâtre de Québec. I Musici also presents newly composed scores for silent film classics, as with the memorable October 24, 1998, performance of Gabriel Thibaudeau's score to The Phantom of the Opera, in Erie, PA.
While I Musici has recorded exclusively for Chandos, it recently broke that tradition: in September 2005, the Canadian label Analekta announced it would begin issuing recordings by the ensemble, the first in October 2005, with an album of Spanish music.
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Destins tragiques
Elvira Misbakhova, I Musici de Montreal, Jean-Francois Rivest
Classical - Released by Les Disques ATMA Inc. on Oct 13, 2023
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Shostakovich: Piano Concerto No. 1 & Chamber Symphony for Strings, Op. 110a
Maxim Shostakovich, Yuli Turovsky, I Musici de Montreal, Dmitri Shostakovich Jr., James Thompson
Concertos - Released by Chandos on Feb 1, 1985
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Richard Strauss Metamorphosen / Arvo Pärt Symphonie No 4, "Los Angeles”
I Musici de Montreal, Jean-Marie Zeitouni
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Borodin & Dvořák: Works For Strings
I Musici de Montreal, Yuli Turovsky
Chamber Music - Released by Chandos on Jun 1, 1997
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Shostakovich's Circle
I Musici de Montreal, Yuli Turovsky, Serhiy Salov
Chamber Music - Released by Groupe Analekta, Inc. on Sep 12, 2006
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Honneger: Symphony No. 2, Concerto da Camera & Prelude, Arioso and Fugheta
Symphonies - Released by Chandos on May 1, 1988
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Tchaïkovsky: Souvenir de Florence, Quartet No. 1
I Musici de Montreal, Yuli Turovsky
Chamber Music - Released by Groupe Analekta, Inc. on Sep 22, 2009
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Verdi & Variations
Yuli Turovsky, I Musici de Montreal, Phillipe Magnan, Alexander Trostiansky
Symphonies - Released by Chandos on Feb 1, 1999
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Romeo and Juliette, Op. 64 (Arr. for Viola and Piano by Vadim Borisovsky, Orchestration for Viola and String Orchestra by François Vallières): Dance of the Knights
Elvira Misbakhova, I Musici de Montreal, Jean-Francois Rivest
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Handel: Concerti Grossi, Op. 6
Yuli Turovsky, I Musici de Montreal, Eleonora Turovsky, Natalya Turovsky, Alain Aubut, Catherine Perrin
Chamber Music - Released by Chandos on Nov 1, 1991
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Shchedrin: Carmen Suite - Turina: La Oración del torero
I Musici de Montreal, Yuli Turovsky
Symphonies - Released by Chandos on Mar 1, 1994
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Pärt: Symphonie No. 4, "Los Angeles": III. Insistentemente – Con intimo sentimento – Deciso
I Musici de Montreal, Jean-Marie Zeitouni
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The "Pergolesi" Concerti Armonici
I Musici de Montreal, Yuli Turovsky
Concertos - Released by Chandos on Nov 1, 1986
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Composers in New York
I Musici de Montreal, Yuli Turovsky, Charles Neidich
Symphonies - Released by Chandos on Sep 1, 2000
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Concertos
Alexander Trostiansky, Yegor Dyachkov, Maneli Pirzadeh, Musici de Montreal, I, Yuli Turovsky
Concertos - Released by Chandos on Jan 1, 1997
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Tranquillity
I Musici de Montreal, Yuli Turovsky, Maxim Shostakovich, Dimitri Shostakovitch Jr.
Concertos - Released by Chandos on Oct 1, 1987
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Myakovsky: Sinfonietta - Schnittke: Violin Sonata No. 1 - Denisov: Five Paganini Caprices
I Musici de Montreal, Yuli Turovsky, Stepan Arman
Chamber Music - Released by Chandos on Mar 1, 2001
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Dances from the Heart of Europe
I Musici de Montreal, Yuli Turovsky
Chamber Music - Released by Chandos on Jul 1, 2003
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Corigliano: Symphony No. 2 & Suite from The Red Violin
I Musici de Montreal, Yuli Turovsky, Eleonora Turovsky
Symphonies - Released by Chandos on Mar 1, 2005
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Shostakovich, Weinberg, Ichmouratov
Yuli Turovsky, I Musici de Montreal, Muczynski Trio
Chamber Music - Released by Analekta on Sep 16, 2008
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Klezmer
Yuli Turovsky, I Musici de Montreal, Kleztory
Classical - Released by Chandos on Mar 1, 2004
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