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By Eva Stone-Barney on 26 May 2023 Baroque and Early, Canadian Music, Chamber Music, Choral, Classical, Classical Music, Contemporary, Opera, Orchestral, Piano, Strings, Vocal

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MONTREAL/QUEBEC Centre Culturel de Pointe-Claire In an effort to make cultural programming accessible to its residents, and breathe life into public park spaces, the Centre Culturel de Pointe-Claire will present a series of free concerts as part of their Summer Evenings in the Parks / Summer Beats in the Parks Festival. Running from June 28 to Aug. 16, the festival will consist of 10 concerts in parks across the city. Starting at Stewart Park on June 28, audiences are invited to a concert of world music titled Paul Kunigis: Yallah. Performances of blues, Latin jazz, world jazz, and Brazilian percussion…

The New Brunswick Summer Music Festival: 30 Years in Fredricton

By Eva Stone-Barney on 26 May 2023 Canadian Music, Chamber Music, Classical, Classical Music

Author : (Eva Stone-Barney)

This year marks 30 years of the New Brunswick Summer Music Festival. Founded in 1994 by Richard Hornsby, clarinetist and Director of Music at the University of New Brunswick, and pianist Robert Kortgaard, the program has expanded substantially over the years, evolving from a three-day chamber-music event to a two-week music festival, complete with educational and mentorship programming for emerging musicians, community outreach activities, and a wide variety of concerts. Offering what Hornsby describes as a “combination of events in various locations around Fredericton,” the festival ensures that “anyone can experience and enjoy live classical chamber music.” “When we started,”…

Concert de plein air au festival de Lanaudière en 2022 (Photo fournie)

Lanaudière Festival 2023

By Eva Stone-Barney on 26 May 2023 Classical, Montreal

Canadian classical music will make a home for itself in Joliette, Que., from July 7 to Aug. 6. The festival will include 14 concerts at the beautiful Amphithéâtre Fernand-Lindsay, and a variety of other performances at the town’s churches, outdoor cultural venues and agritourism sites. The OSM and Rafael Payare will open the festival with a performance of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony (July 7), and will return the following night to pay homage to the 150th anniversary of Rachmaninoff’s birth (July 8). William Christie and Les Arts Florissants will present Handel’s Partenope (July 15). Canadian superstar conductor Yannick Nézet-Séquin and the…

Gordon Lightfoot at Massey Hall (Credit: Piedmontstyle, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gordon_Lightfoot.jpg)

Industry News

By Eva Stone-Barney on 26 May 2023 Classical, Music Competition

Obituaries Grace Bumbry (1937-2023) Trailblazing American mezzo-soprano, considered to be one of the leading voices of her generation, dies at 86. She was the first singer of colour to perform at Bayreuth, in 1961. Gordon Lightfoot (1938-2023) Legendary Canadian folk musician dies at 84. With a repertoire of over 400 songs, the five-time Grammy nominee’s works have been covered by artists such as Elvis Presley, Barbra Streisand, and Johnny Cash. Jocelyn Morlock (1969-2023) Canadian Juno Award-winning composer has died. Her work was championed by the National Arts Centre Orchestra, who commissioned her Juno-winning piece, My Name Is Amanda Todd, and…

Seong-Jin-Cho (Credit: Chistoph Kostlin)

Seong-Jin Cho: Beyond Chopin

By Catherine Kustanczy on 26 May 2023 Classical, Orchestral, Piano

Seong-Jin Cho shot to fame after winning first prize at the 17th Chopin International Piano Competition in 2015. Since then, Cho has played the Chopin concertos many times, but he is beginning to shine in other repertoire. Cho is keen to find new details in music, especially in the Chopin Concerto No. 1 in E minor, Op. 11, which he performed in the finals of the Chopin Competition. “I always try to discover new timing, different nuances,” Cho explains. “Chopin wrote this concerto when he was 20 years old, so it’s a different kind of romanticism than that of Mahler,…

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Lebrecht Weekly | Nielsen: The Symphonies (DG)

By Norman Lebrecht on 28 April 2023 Classical, Classical Music, Lebrecht Weekly, Orchestral

In 1925, at the age of 60, Denmark’s national composer gave in to depression. ‘If I could live my life again,’ said Carl Nielsen, ‘I would … take a commercial apprenticeship or do some other form of useful work that would lead to a visible final result. The creative artist’s lot is not a happy one.’ Nielsen was working at the time on his sixth symphony, titled ‘the simple symphony’ though it was nothing of the sort. His marriage had broken down and he was feeling unappreciated. His fifth symphony, in two movements, was packed with impotent rage. The sixth…

CD Review | Legacy (Naïve Classiques, 2023)

By Zenith Wolfe on 29 March 2023 Baroque and Early, CD and Book Reviews, Classical, Strings, Vocal

Legacy Christian-Pierre La Marca, cello; Adrien La Marca, viola; Julien Chauvin, violin; Philippe Jaroussky, countertenor; Le Concert de La Loge Naïve Classiques, 2023 The musicians’ bold and confident performances on this album exude an unforgettable joie de vivre. Legacy features incredible cellist Christian-Pierre La Marca alongside Le Concert de La Loge. The compositions are centred around the cello and the evolution of string performances from the 18th century onward, and La Marca’s careful ordering of works tells this story well. It starts and ends on Haydn, with Mozart in between, in a recognition of their incredible contributions to the genre.…

CD Review | Theme: Variation (Leaf music, 2023)

By Zenith Wolfe on 28 March 2023 Baroque and Early, Canadian Music, CD and Book Reviews, Classical, Piano

Theme: Variation David Rogosin, piano Leaf Music, 2023 Theme: Variation shouldn’t be taken casually—the solo piano album is a thought-provoking, conceptual experiment that deserves many rounds of active listening. David Rogosin begins Orlando Gibbons’s The Italian Ground, followed by Mein Junges Leben Hat Ein End and Est-ce Mars, both composed by Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck. These compositions start slow and quiet before developing into fast, loud performances, demonstrating how variation in tempo and volume impact tone. This is a grace period that eases the listener into Rogosin’s concept of “variation.” He soon introduces Chopin’s Berceuse, Op. 57 to illustrate how a…

CD Review | Haydn, Op. 77, & Mozart, K. 614 (Leaf music, 2023)

By Zenith Wolfe on 27 March 2023 CD and Book Reviews, Classical, Strings

Haydn Op. 77 & Mozart K. 614 Rosebud String Quartet: Aaron Schwebel and Sheila Jaffé, violin; Keith Hamm and Steven Dann, viola; Leana Rutt, cello Leaf Music, 2023 Four instruments, roughly equal in prominence. In the 18th century, this was the basis upon which Haydn composed 68 works that made him the father of the string quartet. In 2023, Rosebud String Quartet’s new album presents an impeccable rendition of two such masterpieces that are as uplifting as they are inspiring. The quartet’s talent is found in their ability to modulate volume and synchronize with each other in Haydn’s “Lobkowitz” quartets.…

Vernon Proms

By Jacqueline Vanasse on 3 June 2022 Classical, Mainstream Jazz

Over the past two years, despite pandemic and heavy forest fire activity, Natalia Polchenko and her Vernon Proms festival team have continued to present live music. “I hope that this year we will not encounter any disasters,” says Polchenko, who moved the festival to an earlier date this summer to avoid the fire season. Stronger After The Storm The festival is proud to commission new music; this year, they will première a work by Imant Raminsh, a noted Canadian composer who happens to live in Vernon. “The piece, O Language Where Language Ends, is a song cycle about arts and…

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