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La Scena Online is the digital magazine of La Scene Musicale.
Contents: News, Concert reviews, CD reviews, Interviews, Obituaries, etc
Editor: Wah Keung Chan
Assistant Editor: Andreanne Venne
ISSN: 1206-9973

Sir Andrew Davis conducts/Photo: Todd Rosenberg
Sir Andrew Davis conducts, Photo by Todd Rosenberg

Conductor Sir Andrew Davis, 80, Dies

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By on Obituaries, Orchestral

Sir Andrew Davis, former conductor of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, died of Leukemia on Saturday, at the age of 80. Davis led the TSO for thirteen years, from 1975-1988, making his tenure the third-longest in the orchestra’s history.  In 2018, he returned to the orchestra for two years, acting as interim director between Peter Oundjian and Gustavo Gimeno.  In 2012, Davis earned a Juno Award for his recording of Massenet’s Thais with the TSO.  His final performance with the orchestra was in November of 2023, when he conducted them alongside the Amadeus Choir in a performance of Fauré’s Requiem and…

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The Philadelphia Orchestra and Nézet-Séguin at Koerner Hall
The Philadelphia Orchestra and Nézet-Séguin at Koerner Hall, courtesy of The Philadelphia Orchestra/Lisa Sakulensky

Concert Review | Philadelphia Orchestra Thrills with Definitive Rachmaninov in Toronto

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By on Concert Reviews, Orchestral, Toronto

The Philadelphia Orchestra tours all over the world, but this past Wednesday marked their first performance in Toronto under musical director Yannick Nézet-Séguin.

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Edward Elgar
Photo: Reginald Haines/Getty Images

Lebrecht Weekly | Elgar Symphonies freshly minted by Hallé & Mannheim forces

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There was a time when I could not get through the month without experiencing Elgar’s music in the flesh. So English, so reassuring, so easily chiming with a young man’s frustrations and aspirations. These days, there is much less Elgar about and I have no idea where one might turn for instant comfort. The arrival of two Elgar sets in the same week is both encouraging and challenging: might there be two paths to Elgar in a century of cultural retrogression? Mark Elder conducts both symphonies at the end of a quarter-century as music director of the Hallé, an orchestra…

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Douglas Williams Meghan Lindsay Opera Atelier All is Love
Douglas Williams (Golaud) & Meghan Lindsay (Mélisande) in Opera Atelier's All is Love. Photo: Bruce Zinger

Concert Review | Beautiful parts fail to add up to a dramatic whole in Opera Atelier All is Love

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By on Baroque and Early, City, Classical Music, Concert Reviews, La Scena Online, Opera, Toronto, Vocal

All is Love, the new Opera Atelier production is a heterogeneous mix of numbers that impress individually but fail to add up to a dramatically satisfying whole.

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Weekly Lebrecht | Cantabile: Anthems for viola (Delphian)

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By on Lebrecht Weekly, Strings

I was never a fan of viola jokes. Just because the instrument is neither one thing nor the other doesn’t make it any funnier than a mezzo-soprano or a bass-baritone. It is what it is, with benefits. The viola spares you squeaky irritations of a violin and lugubrious growls of a mishandled cello. I like the viola. There, I’ve said it. What’s special about this release is the eclectic menu assembled by a young Jamaican-American, Jordan Bak, who is clearly going places. Bak opens with a three-minute Chant by Jonathan Harvey, dinking back and forth between tonal and post-tonal contemplation.…

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Gerald Finley, Suzanne Taffot, Klaus Mäkelä, Rihab Chaieb
Clockwise from upper L: Gerald Finley, Suzanne Taffot, Rihab Chaieb, Klaus Mäkelä

Highlights | Canadians in Munich, Mäkelä takes Chicago, 24-25 opera in Winnipeg, Calgary & Quebec

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By on Highlights, La Scena Online

Welcome to La Scena Musicale’s weekly Highlights, a roundup of classical music news from Canada and beyond. It’s season announcement time, and Canadian artists are popping up across the classical music globe. Bavarian State Opera Munich’s fabled Bayerische Staatsoper (Bavarian State Opera) recently announced its 24-25 season, with several Canadian singers in the mix. Bass-baritone Gerald Finley will star in the title roles of Wagner’s The Flying Dutchman and Verdi’s Macbeth. He’ll share the stage with fellow Canadian Sondra Radvanovsky as his Lady in the Verdi, while the soprano also takes on the titular role in Puccini’s Turandot. Mezzo-soprano Rihab Chaieb returns…

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Photo: Michaela Rihova

Lebrecht Weekly | Walter Kaufmann: 3rd piano concerto, 3rd symphony &c. (CPO)

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If you’ve never heard of the composer Walter Kaufmann, you are not alone. A Czech Jew in Hitler’s Germany, Kaufmann was hired as a composer by an Indian friend who was founding a film company in Bombay. He was soon promoted to head of music at All India Radio, co-founded (with Meli Mehta) Bombay’s Chamber Music Society and lectured at the University. As political winds shifted, he migrated in 1946 to London, where he composed for Arthur Rank Films. He moved on again to become the first music director in Winnipeg, Canada, and again in 1957 to teach at Bloomington,…

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Photo: Karen E Reeves

Review | Mark Fewer Shines in Esprit Orchestra’s Richter and Ligeti Evening

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By on Classical Music, Concert Reviews, Orchestral

To lovers of new music, Esprit Orchestra needs no introduction.  Founded in 1983 by conductor Alex Pauk, the orchestra has been at the forefront of presenting existing contemporary classical music repertoire, as well as the commissioning of new works by Canadian composers, since its inception.  Thanks to this 65-member professional orchestra, Toronto music lovers get to discover and experience works rarely presented by other orchestras. Their most recent concert, Violinissimo II, was aptly named as a follow up to the original Violinissimo, a well received, violin-centric evening presented by EO in the fall of 2022. On the program were Max…

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