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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unique selling point of this release is what appears to be the first recording of Bartók’s piano quartet in C minor, an unpublished work that the composer began in high school in 1898 and his publishers somehow forgot.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]…

Lebrecht Weekly – Complete piano music of Vítězslava Kaprálová is compelling listening

By Norman Lebrecht on 10 February 2017 CD and Book Reviews, Contemporary, Lebrecht Weekly, Piano

Don’t look away just because the composer’s name is unfamiliar and has too many syllables. Kaprálová (1915-1940) is a vital link in Czech music, her death at 25 the closure of a century of genius. Daughter of a Leoš Janáček student and herself the secret lover of Bohuslav Martinů, Kaprálová flowered in France and Britain in the last years before the Second World War. In addition to composing she was an active conductor, the first woman to raise a baton on BBC television – unscreened, in an experimental studio – and she was widely praised at a London international festival…

Montreal Renew Financial Funding to the OSM

By Olivier Gentil on 9 February 2017 Canadian Music, Chamber Music, Classical, Classical Music, Contemporary, Daily News Roundup, Orchestral, Quebec Music, Scena Jazz, Strings, Uncategorized, Violin, Vocal

CANADA The mayor of Montreal Denis Coderre engage to give 100 000$ per year to the OSM. « Through its international stature, the OSM is a cherished ambassador whose fame reflects back on the national and international reputation of Montreal, said Coderre ». [More infos] [More Infos 2] « The Gatineau Music Conservatory [will receive …] Sérgio et Odair Assad as a part of his 12e Edition of the Festival Guitare Alla Grande.» [More infos] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n60V6ukmJog INTERNATIONNAL The Chinese pianist Lang Lang leaves Sony and return with Deutsche Grammophon. [More infos] [More infos] [More infos] « Seattle Symphony plays music from 7 nations that Trump…

Svend Asmussen, Famous Jazz Player, Died yesterday

By Olivier Gentil on 8 February 2017 Canadian Music, Choral, Classical, Contemporary, Daily News Roundup, Quebec Music, Violin

CANADA The Amadeus Choral from Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean will celebrate its 75th anniversary on February 12 with a special mass. [Plus d’infos] Classical’s nomination for the JUNO Awards. A special article of The Scena Musica on it ! [JUNO Awards – And the 46th JUNO Award Nominees are…] Program announced for the 21C Music Festival in May 24-28 2017. [Newswire in My Scena] INTERNATIONAL The famous violinist Svend Asmussen died yesterday, a few days before his 101th birthday. He was well-know for his performances with many stars of jazz like with Stéphane Grappelli, Josephine Baker and Duke Ellington. LaPresse : [Plus d’Infos] LeDevoir: [Plus d’Infos] LeFigaro: [Plus…

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Nicole Lizée: Techno-Hauntologist

By Kiersten van Vliet on 1 February 2017 Chamber Music, Contemporary, Interviews

“What happens when you find a ghost and you bring it into a work of music?” asks Nicole Lizée. Insofar as that question is answerable, her compositions that form a dialogue with the surrealist film worlds of David Lynch, Stanley Kubrick, and Alfred Hitchcock or compositions that meld outmoded and glitching gadgets with western chamber instruments unveil the eerie temporal rift between present and past as humans interact with media and technology. Sound Sources Born in small-town Gravelbourg, Saskatchewan in 1973, Lizée’s experiments in sound led her to pursue piano at Brandon University, Manitoba followed by a MA in composition…

Julien Bilodeau: Talking About Another Brick in the Wall

By Caroline Rodgers on 1 February 2017 Contemporary, Interviews, Opera, Quebec Music

Opéra de Montréal’s production of Another Brick in the Wall, inspired by Pink Floyd’s cult album, must be one of the most eagerly anticipated arts event of the year. Composer Julien Bilodeau was given the enormous task of turning the work by Roger Waters into an opera. He spoke to us about the process. After graduating from the Montreal’s Conservatoire de musique, Bilodeau completed further studies in Paris and Frankfurt, and in 2006 received the Robert Flemming prize from the Canada Council for the Arts for most promising composer. Since then he has composed works commissioned by the Montreal Symphony…

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