No, the dreadnought Canadian soprano-conductor Barbara Hannigan is not on point for the Berlioz; Rafael Payare, in his first season as music director of the Orchestra Symphonie de Montréal takes the podium for that. Hannigan’s contributions on the first half of the program consist of the out-of-the-box fare in which she specializes. Luigi Nono’s vocalise Djamilah Boupacha pays tribute to a former militant from Algeria, now 84, who was arrested and tried on the strength of a confession obtained by means of rape and torture. Sentenced to death but championed by the likes of Simone de Beauvoir, she was eventually released. Hannigan’s other selection is Lonely Child, by the short-lived Canadian composer Claude Vivier (1948–1983), the ultimate outsider. The composer called the piece “a long song of solitude.” It’s also a prime example of so-called “spectral” music, which focuses not on harmony but pure timbre. —Matthew Gurewitsch