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La Scena Online is the digital magazine of La Scene Musicale.Contents: News, Concert reviews, CD reviews, Interviews, Obituaries, etc; Editor: Wah Keung Chan; Assistant Editor: Andreanne Venne
ISSN: 1206-9973

Welcome to mySCENA!*

By Kiersten van Vliet on 16 June 2016 La Scena Online

We are delighted to announce the launch of our new web platform mySCENA.org, just in time to celebrate the 20th anniversary of La Scena Musicale! The *beta version of mySCENA consolidates La Scena Musicale’s online activity—blog posts, web news, newswire (press releases), and back issues of the magazine—under one address. Our aim is to be the best source for News in classical music, jazz, and the arts. MySCENA will offer users a more personalized experience; users can create a profile to receive the latest Classical music and arts news plus upcoming events on their personalized homepage. In a later phase,…

This Day in Music – Maurice Duruflé

By Michele Duguay on 16 June 2016 Contemporary, This Day in Music, Video of the day

On June 16 1986, organist and composer Maurice Duruflé passed away at the age of 84 years old. He stopped his musical activities in 1975, after a car accident that left him severely injured. Organist at Saint-Étienne-du-Mont church in Paris, he premiered Francis Poulenc’s Organ Concerto in 1939. His most renowned work, the Requiem Op. 9, draws inspiration from Duruflé’s predecessor Fauré, Renaissance music, and gregorian chant.

This Day in Music – Edvard Grieg & Ella Fitzgerald

By Michele Duguay on 15 June 2016 Romantic, Scena Jazz, This Day in Music, Video of the day, Vocal Jazz

June 15, 1843 is the birthday of Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg. Born in Bergen, he is widely considered as one of the leading romantic composers. His music celebrates both the Norwegian Folk heritage and the width of European culture. Listen to a 1906 recording of Grieg playing Butterfly, one of his 66 Lyric Pieces for piano. Today also marks the death anniversary of the First Lady of Song Ella Fitzgerald, who passed away on June 15 1996. She led a brilliant solo career—as her 14 Grammy awards indicate—and also recorded and performed with other great jazz musicians such as Duke…

Concert Review: The Mixed Magic of Impromptu Improvisation

By Rebecca Anne Clark on 13 June 2016 Chamber Music, Concert Reviews, Mainstream Jazz, Scena Jazz, Vocal Jazz

Spirits were running high during the final bows at the FMCM’s opening night last Thursday, June 9 at Pollack Hall, but opinions were mixed. The evening’s stars, soprano Measha Brueggergosman and trumpeter Jens Lindemann, carried the show—though not the show that the audience was expecting. While the program announced an arrangement of Bach’s Air on the G string for the second half of the evening, instead audiences were treated to a preview of the following June 10 jazz concert. After the intermission, the Honourable Tommy Banks (piano), Eric Lagacé (bass), and David Laing (drums) performed an off-the-cuff program of Duke…

This Week in Montreal (June 13 – 19)

By Michele Duguay on 12 June 2016 Chamber Music, Mainstream Jazz, Musical Theatre, Opera, Scena Jazz, Theatre, This Week in Montreal

Montreal Chamber Music Festival, June 3-19 The pre-festival activities of the Montreal Chamber Music Festival began on February 23, but the festival proper will continue until June 19. Tenor Ben Heppner will be narrating Enoch Arden by Richard Strauss with pianist Stéphane Lemelin (June 18). In the days following see the Goldberg Variations with pianist Simone Dinnerstein (June 15) and the rare opportunity to hear Casals’ cello played by Israeli cellist Amit Peled (June 16). Pollack Hall and Bourgie Hall. www.festivalmontreal.org François Bourassa’s Pianorama In the years following his breakthrough as winner of the Montreal Jazz Festival Competition in…

Lebrecht Weekly – Cameron Carpenter: All you need is Bach (Sony)

By Norman Lebrecht on 10 June 2016 Baroque and Early, Lebrecht Weekly

Before we go any further, let me declare once and for all that I am done with three stars. Everywhere else, critics award three stars as a kind of neutral, no-harm-done mark for something they neither love nor hate. Myself, I’ve stopped reviewing that sort of thing. If it doesn’t make you want to laugh or cry (for better or worse), why steal a nanosecond of your readers’ attention by discussing it? So no more three stars on this site. They’d be wasted, anyway, on Cameron Carpenter. The flamboyant American organist, more used to playing in a singlet than a…

Lebrecht Weekly – Feldman, Crumb: Piano pieces (Hyperion)

By Kiersten van Vliet on 3 June 2016 Classical Music, Lebrecht Weekly

Every few months I take my ears out for a cleaning. This is not as easy as it sounds. Finding music that is original, unfamiliar, astringent, elevating and altogether uncomplacent restricts the seeker to the dustiest corners of recorded repertoire. And no sooner do you find a box that fits the bill than what you thought was household detergent comes stuffed with sticky minimalisms. Anyway, this week, I’ve struck lucky with some top-grade industrial ear cleanser from a British pianist I’d normally associate with Beethoven, Rachmaninov and Messiaen. Steven Osborne, though, has a quirky turn of mind and a wonderful…

Lebrecht Weekly – Feldman, Crumb: Piano pieces (Hyperion)

By Norman Lebrecht on 3 June 2016 Contemporary, Lebrecht Weekly, Piano

La Scena Musicale Vol. 21-7 June/July/August 2016

By Kiersten van Vliet on 1 June 2016 La Scena Online

La Scena Musicale June summer issue 2016. Cover: Christopher Plummer & Rufus Wainwright. Guide to 400 festivals. PDF: English Edition: http://bit.ly/SM21-7EN French Edition: http://bit.ly/SM21-7FR Contents 7: Industry News 8: Christopher Plummer: Music and the Bard 12: Rufus Wainwright: Prima Donna 14: Joel Ivany: Transplantation 16: Medici.TV Launches New Website 18: Reviews: Summer reading and listening 20: Classical Festivals: Our Picks 26: Jazz: Festival Round-Up 28: Arts Festivals: Our Picks Guides 34: Canadian Summer Festivals 48: Regional Calendar 49: Previews

Lebrecht Weekly – Anonymous: Six concertos (CPO)

By Norman Lebrecht on 27 May 2016 Baroque and Early, Lebrecht Weekly

The best fun I’ve had all week is trying to identify the composers of six 18th century concertos that have turned up in the vaults of the Saxon State University library in Dresden. Five of the concertos are for flute, which suggest a possible Frederick the Great connection, the sixth is for cembalo. All are entertaining, accomplished, professional – top-drawer music for a courtly dinner party. But who wrote them? The obvious suspects are the Dresden concertmaster Johann Georg Pisendel (1687-1755) and the singer and composer Carl Heinrich Graun (1704-1759). Both turned out music of high quality and near-memorability but,…

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