Centaur Theatre Cancels the Portico Project
Montreal, September 29, 2020 – Following Monday’s press conference, at which Premier Legault announced that Montreal will shift into Red Alert for 28 days beginning…
Yearly Archives: 2020
Ladies’ Morning Musical Club Forced to Cancel Two Concerts
The Ladies’ Morning Musical Club, one of Canada’s oldest musical institutions, has been forced to cancel two upcoming concerts following the new restrictions announced yesterday…
Red Zones in Quebec: Concert Halls will be Closed
UPDATE: More information about the restrictions concerning artistic establishments will be announced during a press conference tomorrow (October 2nd). Quebec Premier François Legault announced this…
Sinfonia Toronto goes online and gets symphonic
Even in the era of COVID-19, Sinfonia Toronto is thinking big. Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony and Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2 are on the 2020-21 schedule.…
Lebrecht’s Album of the Week: Leo Weiner – Divertimentos (Naxos)
Georg Solti used to say that Leo Weiner (1885-1960) was his best teacher in Budapest. Since his other professors at the Franz Liszt Academy included…
CD Review: Dame Ethel Smyth: The Prison
Dame Ethel Smyth: The Prison (symphony for soprano, bass-baritone, chorus and orchestra) Words by H.B. Brewster. Dashon Burton, bass-baritone (The Prisoner). Sarah Brailey, soprano (His…
CD Review : Homage and Inspiration
Homage and Inspiration. Works by Schumann, Kurtág, Mozart and Christof Weiß Iris Trio. Coviello COV 92002 Total time: 62:46 Music schools often spawn multinational collaborations.…
Critiques CD Review : Walter Kaufmann: Chamber works
Walter Kaufmann: Chamber works ARC Ensemble. Chandos 20170 Total time: 77:37 Back when cultural appropriation was not a hanging offence, composers from Europe and the…
Critiques CD REVIEWS
Liszt and Thalberg: Opera transcriptions and fantasies Marc-André Hamelin, piano. Hyperion CDA68320. Total time: 75:00 Many an operatic tune got itself whistled in the 19th…
Fall Festivals d’automne
Culture Days / Journées de la culture Across Canada / Partout le Canada, September 25 to October 25 www.culturedays.ca Nova Scotia Celtic Colours International Festival…
