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Voici les lauréats de la 20e édition des prix Opus !

By Newswire on 6 February 2017 Classical Music, Concert Reviews, Newswire

Communiqué Pour diffusion immédiate (Montréal, le 5 février 2017) – La 20e édition du Gala des prix Opus s’est déroulée à la salle Bourgie du Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal. C’est sous la direction artistique d’Alain Gauthier, pour une deuxième année consécutive, que tout le milieu musical et ses invités se sont réunis pour célébrer les artistes, interprètes, ensembles, organismes, compositeurs et musicologues qui se sont démarqués au cours de la dernière saison par l’excellence de leurs réalisations. Mario F. Paquet et Katerine Verebely, animateurs d’ICI Musique, ont mené avec entrain cette 20egrande fête de la musique. Plusieurs performances à…

Daily News Roundup : 6 February

By Olivier Gentil on 6 February 2017 Classical, Daily News Roundup, Uncategorized

Montreal -Julie Boulianne was named Performer of the year and Charles Richard-Hamelin was declared Artist with the most influence abroad on the 20e edition of the Opus du Conseil Québécois de la musique. http://www.ledevoir.com/culture/musique/490954/prix-opus-julie-boulianne-interprete-de-l-annee -The Armenian pianist Nareh Arghamanyan come back in Montreal nine years after she became popular with the Concours musical – In an interview with Le Devoir. http://www.ledevoir.com/culture/musique/490745/classique-nareh-arghamanyan-entre-melancolie-et-pyrotechnie -The closing of the HMV compagnie would entrain increase of the jazz repress album prices. http://www.ledevoir.com/culture/musique/490746/turbulences-en-vue-pour-le-jazz -The Montreal Symphony Orchestra won many prizes this weekend in the 20e edition of the Gala des prix du Conseil Québécois. International -The Autrichian’s violoncellist…

Austin Opera Beats the Band with Donizetti’s “Daughter of the Regiment”

By Paul E. Robinson on 4 February 2017 Classical, Classical Music, Concert Reviews, La Scena Online, Opera

DONIZETTI: The Daughter of the Regiment. Rachele Gilmore (Marie). René Barbera (Tonio). Cindy Sadler (Marquise de Berkenfield). Stefano de Peppo (Sulpice). Austin Opera Chorus and Orchestra/Richard Buckley. Directed by Rebecca Herman. Production provided by Ft. Worth Opera. Long Center for the Performing Arts, Austin, Texas, January 28, 2017 How does one man manage to write 75 operas in a life span of only 51 years? Gaetano Donizetti, had he lived as long as Verdi – 88 years – could easily have composed over 100. Amazing! Even more amazing is the quality of what he wrote. Lucia di Lammermoor is generally…

Lebrecht Weekly – A Renée Fleming record that can’t end soon enough

By Norman Lebrecht on 3 February 2017 Art Song, CD and Book Reviews, Lebrecht Weekly, Popular Music

I hope this is not Renée Fleming’s final record. The American soprano, in her late 50s, is closing her stage career with the voice unblemished and the memories fond. It would be a pity if her legacy on Decca was to be concluded by this album, which plays to all her weaknesses. Samuel Barber’s lyric rhapsody Knoxville: Summer of 2015 requires a rich soprano voice and a capacity to articulate James Agee’s achingly nostalgic English text. Ms Fleming has the first quality. Pronouncing the words has never been her forte. The best ears will strain here to catch more than…

Semi-Finalists announced at Inagural Isabel Overton Bader Canadian Violin Competition

By Newswire on 2 February 2017 Newswire, Violin

January 26, 2017, Kingston ON …. The Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts at Queen’s University announces the semi-finalists for the inaugural ISABEL OVERTON BADER CANADIAN VIOLIN COMPETITION. Eight semi-finalists have been chosen to perform at the Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts on April 26 and 27, 2017. Subsequently, three finalists will be chosen for the concerto round (with piano) on April 29, 2017 at the Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts (“the Isabel”) in Kingston, Ontario. The Isabel Overton Bader Canadian Violin Competition was made possible through the generosity of Alfred and Isabel Bader, whose…

2017 Cliburn Competition Prizes Annouced

By Newswire on 2 February 2017 Newswire, Piano

FORT WORTH, Texas, February 1, 2017—The Cliburn is proud to announce winners prize packages for the Fifteenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition (May 25–June 10, 2017), highlighted by a new partnership with a highly esteemed international company, KEYNOTE ARTIST MANAGEMENT. Since its inception in 1962, the Cliburn has remained committed not only to identifying exceptional pianists who represent the highest in artistic achievement, but also to nurturing those artists and launching their careers. To that end, it offers a comprehensive career management program for the three Competition medalists. For the 2017 Competition, London-based KEYNOTE ARTIST MANAGEMENT will coordinate international concert tours…

Nicole Lizée, Photo: Marc Bourgeois

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…

Two Fallen Musicians Marking 2016: Classical Music Lives On!

By Pierre Chénier on 1 February 2017 Classical Music, La Scena Spotlight

Two key figures in the music world departed within the space of two months in 2016: Pierre Boulez passed away on January 5, and Nikolaus Harnoncourt on March 5. Both were universally known as two of the greatest conductors of the past 50 years. Their work was far from restricted to conducting, though. Boulez began his career as a composer; he also founded many music institutions and was an outspoken advocate of contemporary music. Harnoncourt went back to the roots of period instruments, especially in Baroque music performance. In addition, he wrote several books about music. Both musicians became conductors…

Glenn Gould: The Russian Journey

By Robert Kilborn on 1 February 2017 La Scena Spotlight, Piano

A pianist from Canada had arrived. Simply a miracle! —Mstislav Rostropovich Not long ago, while perusing YouTube, I rediscovered Glenn Gould: The Russian Journey, an award-winning documentary about Gould’s two-week visit to the Soviet Union in 1957, where he gave eight concerts, four each in Moscow and Leningrad. Gould was the first Canadian musician, and the first pianist from North America, to appear in Russia after the Second World War. It was the zenith of the Cold War, when the state controlled every physical and mental aspect of Russian society, and imposed a blackout or coma in cultural matters. Stalin,…

Stradivarius à l’Opéra (Spectra)

By Ian Cochrane on 1 February 2017 CD and Book Reviews, Opera, Orchestral, Violin

Stradivarius à l’Opéra Alexandre Da Costa, violin, Vienna Symphony Orchestra Spectra 2016. SPECD7859. 60 min 10 s. This luscious CD of operatic masterpieces transcribed for solo violin shows Alexandre Da Costa at his best. Selections include the Habenera from Bizet’s Carmen, Méditation from Massenet’s Thaïs, Valse from Strauss’s Cavelleria Rusticana, and Nessun Dorma from Puccini’s Turandot. From the legendary Richard Wagner, Romance from Tannhauser, Liebeslied from Die Walküre and Preislied from Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg are also included. The world-class Vienna Symphony prove to be ideal collaborators. Their full-bodied timbre is a dulcet match for Da Costa’s resonant style. Rather…

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