Name: Couperin, L - 1. Prelude by ChrisBagan
Duration: 1 min 9 s
Description: Recording session at the Cleveland Museum of Art, December 18, 2015. French harpsichord by William Dowd (after Pascal Taskin).

for piano/singer, harpsichord, soprano, baritone, 2 flutes, viola, and cello

Premiere on July 17, 2014

For Pity Divine was commissioned by Music on Main for their immersive project The Orpheus Project. Text by Colin Browne.

World premiere performed by Veda Hille (piano/voice), Steve Maddock (baritone), Carla Huhtanen (soprano), Christopher Bagan (harpsichord), Mark McGregor (flute), Laura Barron (flute), Rebecca Wenham (cello), Matthew Davies (viola).

At last, contentment
Sleeping with starlight
No longer longing
For love’s release

Happy, the man is
Swimming in reed beds
No longer longing
For love’s release

One has no master
And no tormentor
When he refuses Mercy divine
He turns his back on Mercy divine.

Happy, the man is
Sleeping in starlight
No longer longing
For love’s release
Free of his longing
For pity divine

For Pity Divine (excerpt)

Recording session at the Cleveland Museum of Art, December 18, 2015. French harpsichord by William Dowd (after Pascal Taskin).

Couperin, L - 1. Prelude

Recorded on December 18, 2015 at the Cleveland Museum of Art. German harpsichord by Bruce Kennedy (after Michael Mietke, 1719)

Handel - Suite In A - 1. Prelude

This is movement 3 from my string quartet. Penderecki String Quartet performs here at the Laurier New Music Festival, Jan. 30, 2016 in Waterloo, Ontario. My string quartet was written during a stay at a convent on the Isle of Wight, UK.

"Lied" from String Quartet, by Stephanie Martin

Performed by Christopher Bagan, piano, on November 18, 2011 at the Rolston Recital Hall.

Elaborate Monument

Performance at The Banff Centre as part of a Winter Residency, Feb. 2012

Claude Vivier - Pièce pour violon et piano (Live) with Christopher Bagan, piano

Cristina Vaszilcsin - violin
Christopher Bagan - piano 
This session was recorded at The Banff Centre in Rolston Hall.
I was producing/engineering and editing this recording. 

G. Enescu - Balada

“Versatile, serious and a whole lot of fun, keyboardist Christopher Bagan is a rising star  in Canada’s music scene.” He is equally at home on modern and historical keyboard instruments and is in high demand as a collaborator, chamber musician and basso continuo specialist. Recent engagements include appearances with soprano Ellen Hargis, Toronto Masque Theatre, Aradia Ensemble, University of Toronto Opera and the Britten-Pears Baroque Orchestra as well as his debut as music director for Handel's Giulio Cesare in Ferreira do Zezere, Portugal. He holds a Doctor of Musical Arts from the University of British Columbia where he studied with Jane Coop. He is a regular performer in the Early Music Vancouver main series and Summer Festival as well as Vancouver’s Music on Main concert series. He has performed with many of the leading baroque singers, instrumentalists and conductors in North America. He now resides in Toronto where he is on faculty at the University of Toronto and at St. Michael’s Choir School, and is a staff accompanist at the Glenn Gould School. He also freelances across Canada, working as a soloist, chamber musician, lecturer and collaborative keyboardist.

Couperin, L - 1. Prelude

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