Review | Budapest Festival Orchestra & Iván Fischer’s Triumphant Mahler 3 in Toronto
Mahler’s longest, most philosophically ambitious, and second most lavishly scored symphony, in a less than full-sized hall, could so easily have proved too much of…
David Fanning
David Fanning
David Fanning has been a reviewer for The Guardian, The Independent, The Daily Telegraph, and Gramophone for over 40 years. Professor Emeritus for the University of Manchester and Visiting Scholar at the University of Toronto, he is author of books on Shostakovich, Nielsen and Weinberg, compiler of collected essays on these composers and Expressionism, and editor of scholarly and performing editions of Nielsen’s piano and theatre music, and Russian songs.
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Review | András Schiff Offers Wit and Profound Wisdom at Koerner Hall
Sir András Schiff doesn’t make things easy for his audiences. And yet his Toronto recital was sold out, even with well over 100 additional seats…
Review | An Overwhelming Winterreise from Matthias Goerne & Daniil Trifonov at Koerner Hall
The first verse in Schubert’s Winterreise is in the past tense: “I came here as a stranger, and as a stranger I leave again.” But…
Review | Undercooked Mozart & Tchaikovsky with Welser-Möst & Vienna Philharmonic at BBC Proms
By long-standing tradition, the BBC Proms invite a select number of world-class non-UK orchestras to grace the season. Those orchestras generally bring their A-game, with…
