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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
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Calidore String Quartet

This Week in Montreal (February 22–28)

By Kiersten van Vliet on 22 February 2016 Classical Music, Opera, This Week in Montreal

Series at the Chapelle Historique Éric Champagne, composer-in-residence at the Chapelle, will host a unique concert celebrating philanthropist Paul Sacher’s extraordinary contribution to classical music. The Ensemble Arkea, conducted by Dina Gilbert, will play works by Bartók, Ginastera, Dutilleux and Britten. February 25, 7:30 pm. www.ville.montreal.qc.ca/chapellebonpasteur LMMC On February 28, the spotlight passes to the Calidore String Quartet, winners of numerous prestigious competitions. The quartet was created in 2010 by young musicians at the Colburn Conservatory of Music in Los Angeles, and has now settled in Manhattan. In 2013 it took part in McGill’s International Academy, prompting critic Claude Gingras to…

Lebrecht Weekly – Ivry Gitlis (SWR/Naxos Deutschland)

By Norman Lebrecht on 22 February 2016 Lebrecht Weekly, Violin

Great violinists come in two forms: stars and legends. Think about it. Jascha Heifetz was a star, Nathan Milstein a legend. One was a household name, the other inspired a kind of spiritual reverence among musicians of all stripes, not just violinists. Fritz Kreisler was a star, Jacques Thibaud a legend. The late Yehudi Menuhin was a star, as was Isaac Stern. Ivry Gitlis, their close contemporary, lives on – and he’s a legend. A child prodigy from the port town of Haifa, Ivry came to London before the Second World War to study with Carl Flesch. Turned down by…

Trio Fibonacci

This Week in Montreal (February 15–21)

By Kiersten van Vliet on 17 February 2016 Classical Music, Opera, This Week in Montreal

Trio Fibonacci – Concert Mystique Trio Fibonacci is violinist Julie-Anne Derome, cellist Gabriel Prynn and pianist Wonny Song. Here, they embark on an enthralling journey through the centuries, imbued with the mysticism that often inspired the composers. Works by Sibelius, Mozart, Hildegard von Bingen, John Taverner and Arvo Pärt. As part of the Montreal High Lights Festival. Bourgie Hall, February 20, 7:30 pm. www.triofibonacci.com Emerging Musicians with Pro Musica The Dominica Series, presented at Bourgie Hall, will reveal young, emerging musicians with prosperous careers. German pianist Annika Treutler is first up in the series. She won several awards, including third place…

Lebrecht Weekly – Yevgeny Sudbin: Medtner/Rachmaninov (BIS)

By Norman Lebrecht on 15 February 2016 Classical Music, Lebrecht Weekly

Most concert pianists are like modern tennis players. They know that only two or three men and women are ever going to win the major tournaments, which leaves all the rest working harder each day in vain pursuit of an inhuman perfection and an inexhaustible hope. The Russian-born Yevgeny Sudbin is a circuit pianist who, living in London and teaching at the Royal Academy, has yet to break top ten rankings. He’s a tremendous player of exceptional flair who has made recording for the past decade on an esoteric Swedish label, covering mostly Russian music. The reception has been enthusiastic,…

Lebrecht Weekly – Bartók: 44 Duos (Decca)

By Norman Lebrecht on 8 February 2016 Classical Music, Lebrecht Weekly

It has been an age since I looked to my shelves for a work by a major composer and found that, after 40 years of building a library, I don’t have it. Nor, so far as I recall, have I ever heard it, either in concert or on radio (though a few recordings do exist). The 44 duos were written by Béla Bartók in 1931 on commission from a German violinist, Erich Doflein, who wanted to use them as teaching aids in his studio. Easy money, you’d think. But Bartók, being Bartók, couldn’t write a dull phrase. The four books…

Lebrecht Weekly – Wihan Quartet: Dvořák/Janáček (Nimbus Alliance)

By Norman Lebrecht on 1 February 2016 Classical Music, Lebrecht Weekly

It must be something in the plum juice that produces, generation after generation, a cluster of distinctive string quartets from the country constituted as the Czech Republic. There is nothing like a Czech string quartet. It’s a generic school of ensemble playing that aligns all the right accents to a witty, virile expressiveness and an almost effortless panache. Count the present contenders on the world stage: the Panocha, the Pavel Haas, the Pražák, the Stamic, the Vlach, the Wihan, and the daddy of them all, the Talich. There are presently seven or eight Czech quartets of the highest quality out…

Julian Kuerti

This Week in Montreal (February 1–7)

By Kiersten van Vliet on 1 February 2016 Classical Music, This Week in Montreal

Romanticism and Exoticism with the OM Julian Kuerti offers two visions of Oriental exoticism : the delicious tales of One Thousand and One Nights with mezzo soprano Michèle Losier, and the Symphonic Suite of Rimski-Korsakov. Maison symphonique, February 5, 7:30 pm. On tour in three neighbourhoods fromFebruary 3-6. www.orchestremetropolitain.com

Lebrecht Weekly – Manhattan Intermezzo (Naxos)

By Norman Lebrecht on 25 January 2016 Classical Music, Lebrecht Weekly

Editor’s Note: La Scena Musicale is pleased to welcome back contributor Norman Lebrecht for his weekly CD reviews, which will be posted online on Mondays and appear in the print edition. Read Norman’s regular CD reviews and columns under the Lebrecht Weekly tag. What you really need to start 2016 – what you never imagined you’d ever need – is a piano concerto by Neil Sedaka. Absolutely no irony here. Anyone who can write a novel or concerto start to finish without falling on his/her plot deserves all the credit going and a fair ride from reviewers. Sedaka, 75, made his…

Cette semaine à Montréal (25 à 31 janvier) / This Week in Montreal (January 25–31)

By Kiersten van Vliet on 25 January 2016 Classical Music, Opera, This Week in Montreal

Opera McGill: L’Elisir d’amoreOpera McGill’s annual mainstage opera is a production of Donizetti’s comic opera L’Elisir d’amore, known for great arias including Nemorino’s “Una furtive lagrima.” Patrick Hansen conducts with staging by François Racine. Pollack Hall. January 28, 29, 30 at 7:30 pm, and January 31 at 2 pm. www.mcgill.ca/music. The performances on the 29th and 30th will be webcast at http://sites.music.mcgill.ca/webcastsJean-Guihen Queyras aux Violons du RoyC’est une rencontre longuement attendue que fera avec les Violons du Roy ce violoncelliste inspiré. Soliste de l’Ensemble intercontemporain dirigé alors par Boulez, qui en avait fait son protégé, le réputé violoncelliste possède une…

Cette semaine à Montréal (18 à 24 janvier) / This Week in Montreal (January 18–24)

By Kiersten van Vliet on 18 January 2016 Classical Music, This Week in Montreal

Série hommage à John Rea / John Rea Homage SeriesLa programmation audacieuse conçue autour de la musique du compositeur offre des concerts aux influences musicales variées.Avec La chèvre de M. Rea, les musiciens du quatuor de saxophones Quasar s’aventurent dans la création de trois nouvelles œuvres de Macnab-Séguin, Koch et Nurulla-Khoja, en plus de deux titres de Rea. Église du Gesù, 21 janvier, 20 h.L’Ensemble Transmission et le saxophoniste improvisateur Jean Derome nous présentent un John Rea hétéroclite à travers trois de ses œuvres. Ils complètent le programme Les blues d’Orphée avec une œuvre de Simon Bertrand, à la mémoire…

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