On Nov. 28, the St. John-Mercer-Park Trio dazzled the audience at the Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre with the premiere of composer Kevin Lau’s new album, Under a Veil of Stars.
From the beginning of the Allegro in Brahms’ Third Symphony, with its powerful opening chords, I was completely drawn into Staatskapelle Berlin orchestra’s playing.
The hottest ticket in Toronto this weekend was no doubt Staatskapelle Berlin, whose Canadian debut was sold out months before the orchestra took to the stage.
The whole performance was a marked by the connection between music and dance, musicians and dancers. Maestro David Briskin’s interpretation successfully drew the beauty of melodic motifs out of the score, and onto the stage.
The Orchestre Métropolitain presented a spellbinding performance featuring Shostakovich’s evocative “Leningrad” Symphony No. 7 at Montreal’s Maison Symphonique.
Toronto Symphony Orchestra’s audience was treated to not one, but two sensational TSO debuts of Ukrainian artists, conductor Oksana Lyniv and pianist Illia Ovcharenko.