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More than 40 classics concerts this week in Montreal : February 20-26

By Olivier Gentil on 20 February 2017 Canadian Music, Chamber Music, Classical, Musical Theatre, Opera, Orchestral, Piano, Quebec Music, Strings, This Week in Montreal, Violin

Tuesday – February 21 1:30PM Longueuil Campus of UdeM, Édifice Port-de-Mer, 101, Place Charles-Lemoyne, Longueuil. 14$. Les matinées d’Opéramania au Campus Longueuil- I Puritani de Bellini. 1-855 790-1245. 7:00PM. Maison de la culture Frontenac (Montreal), 2550 Ontario Est, Montreal. 0-2$. Signer and pianist from Guadeloupe perform urban compositions. 514-872-7882. 7:00PM Music Faculty of the University of Montreal – Serge-Garant Hall (B-484), 200, avenue Vincent-d’Indy. Atelier d’improvisation – Classe de Jean-Marc Bouchard. 7:30PM. Bourgie Concert Hall, 1339, Sherbrooke Ouest Street, Montreal. 30$-100$. Camp Tutti concert bénéfice. 514-486-8727. Wednesday – February 22 7:30PM – OM – INSPIRATION AND HOPE: Inspire by…

More than 30 classics concerts this week in Montreal : February 13 to 19

By Olivier Gentil on 13 February 2017 Classical, La Scena Online, Orchestral, Piano, Strings, This Week in Montreal, Violin

Montreal 14 Tuesday 11AM. Bach Before Bed- time – Chocolate Frenemies. 514-935-3933. 1:30PM. REZCh. 14$. Les matinées d’Opéramania au Campus Longueuil : I Puritani de Bellini. 1 855 790-1245. 4:30PM. Bach Before Bedtime – Chocolate Frenemies. Tanna Schulich Hall, 527 Sherbrooke St. West, Montreal. suggested donation: $20- 514-935-3933. 8:00PM. Joshua Bell Play & Lead the OSM : A Premiere!. Maison symphonique (Place des Arts), 1600 St-Urbain, Montréal. From 43$. 514 842-9951. 15 Wednesday 5:00PM. Cello’s Recital : Class of Yegor Dyachkov – Faculté de musique de l’Université de Montréal – Salle Serge-Garant (B-484), 200, avenue Vincent-d’Indy, Montréal. 7:30PM. Schulich in Concert – Redpath Hall, Montreal, 3461…

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…

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…

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,…

Record-Breaking Number of Applications for CMIM

By Newswire on 17 January 2017 Newswire, Piano

Over 300 pianists apply to compete in Montreal in 2017 Montréal, January 17, 2017 – Over 300 pianists have applied to take part in the next edition of the Concours musical international de Montréal (CMIM), resulting in the highest number of applicants in the history of the Competition. Up 120% from the previous piano edition in 2014, CMIM 2017 received a total of 304 applications from 99 women and 205 men, with an average age of 25 years. 41 countries are represented, with the highest number of candidates from South Korea, the United States, Russia, China, and Canada. Here is…

Lebrecht Weekly – Boris Giltburg Plays Shostakovich

By Norman Lebrecht on 13 January 2017 CD and Book Reviews, Contemporary, Lebrecht Weekly, Piano

What is remarkable about both piano concertos is that neither was intended for virtuoso performers. Shostakovich wrote the first in 1933 for himself to play with the Leningrad Philharmonic and the second in 1957 as a birthday present for his son Maxim, who was intent on a conducting career. The lack of flash effects in the score intensifies the directness and sincerity of both works. Listen with eyes closed and you can imagine the state-harassed composer playing the first concerto in some remote corner of the Soviet empire, sharing the limelight with the local trumpet player and Kazak strings. Shostakovich’s…

Discovery CD: Jean-Michel Dubé

By Camilo Lanfranco on 3 January 2017 Canadian Music, Classical Music, Discovery CDs, Piano, Quebec Music

Download the complete Discovery CD Jean-Michel Dubé – André Mathieu ! Jean-Michel Dubé is the youngest in a family of five children, four of whom are pianists. At the age of three, he started studying piano at home with his mother who was herself a pianist. At age seven, he entered the Conservatoire de musique de Québec. In 2015, he was awarded the grand prize at the Concours Hélène-Roberge, which allowed him to record, with the help of Espace XXI and Aramusique, the works of André Mathieu. Mathieu’s complete piano works have never been recorded before, making this disc…

Lebrecht Weekly – J. S. Bach: The complete keyboard works (Erato)

By Norman Lebrecht on 16 December 2016 Baroque and Early, Lebrecht Weekly, Piano

Amid the seasonal rock fall of weird-shaped box sets and unopenable recorded turkeys, one project stands out as indispensable in both musical and moral dimensions. In 1965, a little-known harpsichordist began recording the Bach keyboard works for a niche French label. By the time she finished ten years later, Zuzana Ruzickova and Erato had received every French record award, wresting harpsichord Bach away from deadhand American academics back to a middle-European vivacity. Ruzickova, resisting celebrity, Communism and the temptations of the music world, taught the next three generations of leading harpsichordists from her home in Prague. A survivor of four…

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