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Wolf-Ferrari: The two piano trios (Brilliant Classics)

By Norman Lebrecht on 17 August 2018 Chamber Music, Lebrecht Weekly, Piano

Universally popular in the first half of the 20th century, the music of Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari has vanished into thin air. A Venetian of German ancestry and education, Wolf-Ferrari rejected modernism and allowed himself to become – along with Mascagni, Repighi, Malipiero and most Italian composers – a cultural poster-boy for the Mussolini regime. This affiliation accelerated his reputational decline after 1945; he died three years later. But there is nothing ideological about his music. Nor is it in any sense reactionary. On the contrary, Wolf-Ferrari wrote romantic music because that is all he was equipped to do and he did…

An extra night announced for Carmen at the Opéra de Montréal

By Newswire on 15 August 2018 Classical Music, Newswire, Opera

Montreal, August 15, 2018 – The Opéra de Montréal is proud to announce an added performance of the opera Carmen by Bizet on May 13, 2019. This is an all-new production conceived and directed by renowned Quebec filmmaker Charles Binamé. After a more than 14-year absence from our stage, Carmen is already drawing great numbers of opera fans! A first for filmmaker Charles Binamé Charles Binamé (director of, among others, Eldorado, Maurice Richard-The Rocket, and Heart of Stone) is directing his first opera, an experience he describes as “an unexpected dream come true for a director, given the extent to…

Mozart & Salieri Are at It Again, at dell’Arte Opera Ensemble’s Festival 2018

By Charles Geyer on 9 August 2018 Art Song, Choral, Classical, Classical Music, Interviews, La Scena Online, La Scena Spotlight, Musical Theatre, Opera, Orchestral, Strings, Theatre, Vocal

PREVIEW: of the 2018 dell’Arte Opera Ensemble Summer Festival Season, “Mozart & Salieri,” at New York City’s LaMaMa (66 East 4th Street), August 11 through 26; and INTERVIEWS: with company founder and artistic director, maestro Chris Fecteau, and dell’Arte 2018 creative team members Brittany Goodwin and Catherine O’Shaughnessy. This company is ready to rumble. Call it the Thrilla from Vienna: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Antonio Salieri, that most bruited matchup of 18th Century musical titans, is slated for a redux this month – this time in 21st Century New York, courtesy of the dell’Arte Opera Ensemble. Grab a ringside seat.…

NAC Orchestra Kicks off the Season with Beethoven Festival, Performs all 9 Symphonies

By Newswire on 9 August 2018 Arts Industry, Newswire, Orchestral

The annual FOCUS Festival presents the Beethoven edition, a 10-day immersive classical music experience with concerts and free events such as musical salons, piano marathons, talks & more. Thursday, August 9, 2018– OTTAWA (Canada) – The NAC Orchestra FOCUS Festival’s Beethoven edition opens on Thursday, September 13th, 2018 and runs until Saturday, September 22nd, 2018 at the NAC. Over the course of 10 days, NAC Music Director Alexander Shelley brings to light the creative musical genius of Beethoven the composer, whose work irrevocably changed classical music and bridged the Classical and Romantic Eras. “Beethoven is known around the world as…

Emilie LeBel joins the TSO as Affiliate Composer

By Newswire on 9 August 2018 Arts Industry, Newswire, Orchestral, Toronto

August 8, 2018: The Toronto Symphony Orchestra (TSO) and Interim Artistic Director Sir Andrew Davis proudly announce that Canadian composer Emilie LeBel has been selected as the TSO’s new Affiliate Composer. Described as having a “deft compositional hand, unwilling to hurry ideas,” and a style that is “impressively subtle and sensuous,” Emilie LeBel specializes in concert-music composition focusing on textural landscapes, resonance, and variances in colour. The Affiliate Composer position is the most significant and prestigious opportunity for an emerging composer in Canada, as it provides a chance to compose two works for one of the country’s finest orchestras, allows…

Looking Back on the 41st Season of Festival de Lanaudière

By Newswire on 8 August 2018 Newswire, Orchestral, Piano

Joliette, August 7, 2018 – It was in the full heat of summer that the 41st season of Festival de Lanaudière concluded Sunday. To the delight of festival-goers, however, the performance by Orchestre Métropolitain (conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin with soloist Marc-André Hamelin) was more than refreshing! The concert featured Dmitri Shostakovich’s Piano Concerto No. 2 and Symphony No. 7, “Leningrad”. With his usual flamboyance, Nézet-Séguin masterfully led his orchestra to a grandiose finale. This year, the Festival’s Artistic Director Gregory Charles built the Festival program around the evocative theme “All is fair in love and war”, giving audiences at the…

The Ukrainian Dmytro Choni has won the first prize and golden medal of the 19th Paloma O’Shea Santander International Piano Competition

By Newswire on 6 August 2018 Arts Industry, Music Competition, Newswire, Piano

Santander, August 5th 2018.- This evening has been held the Closing Gala and Awards Ceremony of the 19th Paloma O’Shea Santander International Piano Competition. The event has been attended by the President of the Government of Cantabria, Miguel Ángel Revilla; the Mayoress of Santander, Gema Igual; and the President of the Albéniz Foundation and of the Santander Piano Competition, Paloma O’Shea. The Gala, presented by Eva Sandoval, has begun with the six finalists’ performance of Khachaturian’s “Sabre dance” (arrangement by Walden Hughes for 2 pianos and 12 hands). After Mrs. Paloma O’Shea’s brief speech, Miguel Ángel Revilla has handed in…

Muzio Clementi: Keyboard sonatas (Naxos)

By Norman Lebrecht on 3 August 2018 Baroque and Early, Lebrecht Weekly, Piano

The problem with Clementi is that there are no standout works. Where most famous composers write a couple of pieces that are gripping enough to be an entry point to their output, the London-based Italian just wrote and wrote more and more sonatas at roughly the same level of invention, leaving the new listener no idea where to start. Opus 33, published by Longman and Broderip in 1794, is not a bad door-knocker. Clementi employs many of the same devices as Mozart – a seductive melody, a secondary detour and several strong teases before he delivers a resolution. There’s nothing…

A scene from DEMON by Anton Rubinstein; Bard SummerScape; photo by Stephanie Berger.

Rubinstein’s Demon Lover Stalks Bard SummerScape 2018

By Charles Geyer on 2 August 2018 Classical Music, Interviews, La Scena Online, La Scena Spotlight, Opera, Romantic, Vocal, World Music

REVIEW: of the 2018 Bard SummerScape production of Anton Rubinstein’s 1871 opera Demon; and INTERVIEW: with Dr. Leon Botstein (American Symphony Orchestra founder and SummerScape festival artistic director). A warning to all princes of the Caucasus – lock up your daughters! The devil is on the prowl, and he’s feeling amorous. Russian composer Anton Rubinstein’s 1871 opera, Demon, weaves a fascinating yarn of ultimate forbidden love. Based on an earlier, censored poem by Russian poetic genius Mikhail Lermontov, a demon (depicted as the very model of the proud, lonely, passionate Byronic tragic hero) finds himself smitten by the beauty of…

Alan Doyle joins Sun Life Financial at the official launch of the Sun Life Financial Musical Instrument Lending Library program at AC Hunter Public Library in St. Johns, Newfoundland (CNW Group/Sun Life Financial Canada)

Sun Life’s popular Musical Instrument Lending Library program expands to the Newfoundland and Labrador Public Libraries

By Newswire on 31 July 2018 Education, Newswire, Orchestral

ST. JOHN’S, July 31, 2018 /CNW/ – Atlantic Canada continues to expand its musical horizons as the Newfoundland and Labrador Public Libraries has become the latest library on the East coast to join the Sun Life Financial Musical Instrument Lending Library program. Newfoundland native Alan Doyle, actor, producer, best-selling author, and best-known as lead singer for Newfoundland’s beloved Great Big Sea for 20+ years was on hand to help announce the new program. St. John’s is the third city in Atlantic Canada and the tenth in the country to join the Musical Instrument Lending Library program, allowing St John’s area residents the opportunity to borrow…

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