Bryan and Silvie Cheng—brother and sister in real life—have just released a new album, Portrait, on Centrediscs—the most personal of their entire discography.
Rarely do program notes capture the intangible, inexpressible nature of the works they describe. But such is not the case with composer Kevin Lau’s album Under a Veil of Stars.
Bruce Liu’s new album, Waves, opens with Rameau’s well-known Gavotte et six doubles, a stately French dance with variations, each of which explore and ornament the theme in a different and more dramatic way.
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Initiated by Sharon Azrieli, the UdeM–McGill Piano Vocal Accompaniment Residency aims to address “the lack of collaborative pianists with the necessary skills to work with experienced singers.”
This was Sir András Schiff’s seventh appearance at Koerner Hall and I doubt that it will be his last, says critic Paul Robinson.
In a philanthropic gesture to support the Musicians of the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony, Emanuel Ax has offered to perform a rare benefit concert on November 1, 2023.
Ensemble Classico-Moderne delivered on its promise of combining classic favorites and contemporary music during the first stop on its Toronto-Montréal-Quebec City tour.
This week, Opera America announced discounts at around 80 opera houses across North America, and a new study found a gendered disparity in US opera production roles.
The combination of Rameau, Alkan, and Ravel in Bruce Liu’s WAVES, on paper, looks wildly exciting. In performance, it is less so.
