This recently published Musicor album is pulled from the Orchestre symphonique de Longueuil’s “Les Balcons symphoniques” tour, during which they played well-known music outside medical…
In the space of a single-page survey, it would be impossible to give a comprehensive overview of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony on record, so we will…
As part of an international tour celebrating its 90th anniversary the Red Army Choir, under the direction of its artistic director Gennadiy Sachenyuk, gave seven…
This year, the world of music is celebrating the 270th anniversary of George Frideric Handel’s Music for the Royal Fireworks. King George II of England…
Baroque music first enjoyed a resurgence in popularity in the 1970s and has never looked back. Nowadays, the works of major figures like Bach, Handel,…
Composed in 1827 by Franz Schubert, Winterreise is a landmark in the annals of classical music. So much so that that this 24-song cycle for…
I recently had the great pleasure of conversing with Joseph Rouleau, a Quebec bass of international reputation, still working on projects at 89. Why, in…
Not only is love at the heart of Mozart’s work, but he celebrated it in a way that still moves us, more than 200 years…
I will begin this short article on basses and baritones with eighty-eight-year-old Joseph Rouleau, our elder born in Matane, Quebec, in 1929. Joseph Rouleau left…
We cannot speak of our mezzo-sopranos and contraltos without starting with Maureen Forrester, considered to be one of the 20th century’s greatest contraltos. Born in…
