A stirring finale to OM Brahms cycle
Happy ending. Not literally, of course, since Brahms’s Fourth Symphony – as Yannick Nézet-Séguin pointed out Saturday to an audience of about 250 in the…
Arthur Kaptainis
Arthur Kaptainis
Arthur Kaptainis has been a classical music critic since 1986. His articles have appeared in Classical Voice North America and La Scena Musicale as well as Musical Toronto. Arthur holds an MA in musicology from the University of Toronto. From 2019-2021, Arthur was co-editor of La Scena Musicale.
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Chamber version of Verdi packs a punch
Quite remarkable, what Verdi does with the marimba in the Requiem. What Requiem, you ask? Which Verdi? To explain: The Church of St. Andrew and…
Keeping it together in the age of distance
“We were quite precise about the two metres,” Jean-Sébastien Vallée, conductor of the Choir of the Church of St. Andrew and St. Paul, said about…
Industry News
Start your symphonic engines The race goes to the swift. And the lucky. The OSM promised a return to live-public programming minutes after Quebec Premier François Legault…
Orchestre classique de Montréal takes a Slavic Turn
“Sort of a Romeo and Juliet thing,” Taras Kulish, executive director of the Orchestre classique de Montréal, says of Mykola Lysenko’s epic 1891 opera Taras…
CMIM 2021: A competition like no other
“It’s the biggest logistical challenge of my career,” Christiane LeBlanc, executive and artistic director of the Concours musical international de Montréal, said about the prospect…
Cellist Matt Haimovitz at the LMMC
Circle April 11 on your calendar. This date marks the return of the Ladies’ Morning Musical Club to Pollack Hall after months of provincially mandated…
Yannick, OM make a live-audience comeback
Might catch on, this idea of attending concerts in person. Such is my prediction after Yannick Nézet-Séguin and his Orchestre Métropolitain performed in the Maison…
Nagano makes a welcome comeback
Not many natives of California choose to winter in Canada, particularly when the sojourn involves 14 days of quarantine. Kent Nagano, recently named conductor emeritus…
Kent Nagano: “It’s because of what we did together.”
“It’s probably the most comfortable quarantine that I’ve ever experienced,” Kent Nagano said, via Zoom, from an undisclosed location on the island of Montreal. Also…
