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Lebrecht Weekly – Boris Tishchenko: 8th symphony (Naxos)

By Norman Lebrecht on 24 February 2017 CD and Book Reviews, Contemporary, Lebrecht Weekly, Orchestral, Violin

Try as I might, I can’t stop listening to these late works of a Russian composer who was close to Shostakovich but never tried, as others did, to imitate him. The eighth symphony, written in 2008 when Tishchenko was mortally ill, draws the ear into an eerie landscape of ghosts, trolls and spooks, weird and possibly political. The composer thought it might make a good companion piece to Schubert’s “Unfinished” Symphony. He was right: it would. But where is the conductor or orchestra manager that dares to do such a thing in timid 2017? Unlike Schubert, there are expressions here…

Opéra Lafayette’s Production of Léonore, ou L’amour Conjugal a Real Success

By Olivier Gentil on 21 February 2017 Canadian Music, Classical, Classical Music, Contemporary, Daily News Roundup, Opera, Orchestral, Quebec Music, Scena Jazz, Strings, Violin

CANADA Jean-Philippe Tremblay, Artistic director of the Société d’art lyrique du Royaume (Chicoutimi), explain his plans and ambitions for the orchestra. [La Presse – Le Quotidien] To celebrate the 50 anniversary of the SMCQ, Radio-Canada will publish a series of web and radio rendez-vous, highlighting the greatest contemporary. [Voir] Sherbrooke: Review of the concert with the pianist Anne-Marie Dubois, accompanied by the Sherbrooke Symphony Orchestra. [La Presse] Demographics et numerical challenges for the cultural organisms in the East of Quebec.[Radio-Canada] INTERNATIONAL Opéra Lafayette’s production of Léonore, ou L’amour conjugal a real success. – [washingtonclassicalreview] [TheWashingtonpost] [La Scena] European Union Baroque Orchestra: The orchestra will relocate…

A Glenn Gould debut at the Ladies’ Morning Musical Club

By Arthur Kaptainis on 21 February 2017 Baroque and Early, Concert Reviews, Contemporary, Piano, Romantic

The Ladies’ Morning Musical Club advertises a venerable history with its very name. On Feb. 5 in Pollack Hall the organization paid tribute to its 125th anniversary by asking Stewart Goodyear to recreate Glenn Gould’s Montreal debut recital of 1952. Gould is the quintessentially inimitable pianist, yet Goodyear in Orlando Gibbons’ Pavan and Galliard for the Earl of Salisbury demonstrated straightway a certain affinity with his fellow Torontonian by making the left and right hands seem so indepedent. Perhaps his eagerness to use the full sound of the Steinway was a individual trait. Oddly, Bach’s Partita No. 5 flew by…

Charlie Chaplin, A Night in the Show

New and classic cinema shorts get organized at the Maison symphonique

By Arthur Kaptainis on 21 February 2017 Concert Reviews, Contemporary, Film

All the rage elsewhere in North America, cinema in concert is more complicated in the Maison symphonique, given the paucity of Hollywood blockbusters in French. Well, then, what about silent film? On Friday, February 17, the OSM collaborated with the Kino organization on an evening of shorts, ancient and modern, accompanied by the Grand Orgue Pierre Béique with occasional contributions from a piano. Chaplin classics began and ended the almost-two-hour evening. Much of the middle was made up of 21st-century silent films, some of which paid homage to the style of century ago. First we had Stephan Le Lay’s Le…

Le Beau Danube is 150-year-olds. Back on one of the Greatest Successes from Strauss.

By Olivier Gentil on 20 February 2017 Baroque and Early, Canadian Music, Chamber Music, Classical, Classical Music, Contemporary, Daily News Roundup, Opera, Orchestral, Piano, Quebec Music, Scena Jazz, Strings, Violin

MONTREAL As part of the 8th edition of the biennial Montréal/Nouvelles musiques Festival (MNM), Walter Boudreau will lead La symphonie du millénaire II. In 2000, the performance of the first Symphonie du millénaire, brought together more than 70’000 people. [Le Devoir] Review on the concert of OSTR, highlighting Bach’s works. [La Presse] André Sauvé will join the OSM for a special concert on July 21 and 22. [La Presse] INTERNATIONNAL Le beau Danube is 150-year-olds. Back on one of the greatest successes from Strauss. [La Presse] [Radio-Canada] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t38fIJgvWEM The first recording of Bartók’s piano quartet in C minor (1898) was found and published. [Scena…

DSO Premiere: Rouse’s Fifth Symphony Warrants Second Hearing

By Paul E. Robinson on 19 February 2017 Classical Music, Concert Reviews, Contemporary, Orchestral

ROUSE: Symphony No. 5 (world premiere). BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat major Op. 19. RESPIGHI: Pini di Roma (Pines of Rome). Emanuel Ax, piano. Dallas Symphony Orchestra/Jaap van Zweden. Meyerson Symphony Center. Dallas, Texas. February 11, 2017 For classical music lovers, each new composition by Christopher Rouse, one of America’s most often performed composers, is an “event”. Rouse’s Symphony No. 5, premiered last week by the Dallas Symphony (DSO), under its music director Jaap van Zweden, proved to be a major addition to the repertoire. This memorable concert also featured Emanuel Ax, better than ever at the…

Lebrecht Weekly – Not bad music, just not very good Bartók

By Norman Lebrecht on 17 February 2017 CD and Book Reviews, Contemporary, Lebrecht Weekly

The unique selling point of this release is what appears to be the first recording of Bartók’s piano quartet in C minor, an unpublished work that the composer began in high school in 1898 and his publishers somehow forgot. The gushing sleeve note says nothing about where this work was found, or what state it was in. We have to judge from the performance why Bartók and his publishers considered it unworthy of inclusion in his mature output. The reason, by my best guess, is lack of originality. The Allegro and Scherzo sound like warmed-over Brahms, while the Adagio could…

Two Projects Proposed to Keep the House and the Memories of Pierre Boulez

By Olivier Gentil on 15 February 2017 Canadian Music, Classical, Classical Music, Contemporary, Daily News Roundup, Orchestral, Quebec Music, Strings, Violin

CANADA The Regroupement des artisans de la musique will present on Wednesday an action plan to try to be more remunerate for their music, especially with streaming. [Le Devoir] Critic review of the performance of Joshua Bell as Chief of the OSM yesterday. [Le Devoir] Learn how Matt Haimovitz broke the neck of his cello during his visit in Montreal. [Slippedisc] [Stringsmagazine] INTERNATIONNAL Pierre Boulez’s house in Germany : « two projects to keep the memories [of the composer] » [DiapasonMag] « Three Best-sellers on one Release » : Chris Thile, Yo Yo Ma, Edgar Meyer. It’s a set of Bach’s trio Sonatas.[Slippedisc] https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=102&v=770rJqDwRXo Harvey Liechtenstein : Testimony of 9…

Angèle Dubeau Will Tour for One Last Time

By Olivier Gentil on 14 February 2017 Arts Industry, Canadian Music, Classical, Classical Music, Contemporary, Daily News Roundup, Orchestral, Quebec Music, Strings, Violin

CANADA Angèle Dubeau will retire from touring this fall. [Le Devoir] [La Presse| On February 18, the Calvinist Geneviève Soly will play a concert of Bach’s music with the Trois-Rivière Symphony Orchestra. [La Presse] INTERNATIONAL Strike of the Bordeaux Opera’s dancers : Director fired for a « refuse to co-operate ». [Resmusica] « Being jailed and intimidated for his Lagos Street performance hasn’t stopped Jelili Atiku’s protest. […] Atiku spent three days in jail, and that same night “almost 50” men with “guns and machetes” came to his house and destroyed his art. [CBC] For the first time in his history (founded in…

Death of the Swede’s tenor Nicolai Gedda

By Olivier Gentil on 10 February 2017 Baroque and Early, Canadian Music, Classical, Contemporary, Daily News Roundup, Opera, Orchestral, Piano, Popular Music, Quebec Music, Strings, Violin

CANADA OSM Pop Serie : Half Moon Run, Bruno Pelletier and Véronique DiCaire will perform with the OSM. [More infos – Radio-Canada] City of Gatineau finance the construction of artists’ co-op. [More infos – LaPresse] Three concerts in Granby for the Valentine’s Day. [More infos – LaPresse] « L’Amossois Charles Trudel, claviériste du Ben Racine Band [remporte le 1er prix] à Memphis lors de l’International Blues Challenge. » [More infos Radio-Canada] « The 2017 [Hindemith] prize, worth 20,000 Euros, goes to the Montreal-born composer Samy Moussa. Based in Paris and Berlin, Moussa, 32, was among the last proteges of Pierre Boulez.» [More infos Slippedisc]…

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