The Enduring Power of Beethoven’s String Quartets
“After this, what is left for us to write?” —Franz Schubert after hearing Beethoven’s late String Quartet No. 14, Op. 131 This year at the…
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This Week in Montreal: March 6 to 12 : Another Brick In The Wall, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, and the Violons du Roy
Monday, March 6 Two quartets at Pro musica: Created in the seventies at Prague Conservatory, the Pražák Quartet has become one of the most…
Tuesday Headlines: Positive reviews for Opera Lafayette’s ‘Léonare, ou l’Amour Conjugal’ in New York
Opera Lafayette is getting many positive reviews for their production of Léonare, ou l’Amour Conjugal, which has an all Canadian cast. The New York Times…
A Glenn Gould debut at the Ladies’ Morning Musical Club
The Ladies’ Morning Musical Club advertises a venerable history with its very name. On Feb. 5 in Pollack Hall the organization paid tribute to its…
Montreal Renew Financial Funding to the OSM
CANADA The mayor of Montreal Denis Coderre engage to give 100 000$ per year to the OSM. « Through its international stature, the OSM is a…
Daily News Roundup: 5 December 2016
The Toronto Symphony Orchestra avoids major deficit with a fundamental shift in focus towards more community engagement and donor relations, which respectively grew more than…
Lebrecht Weekly – András Schiff: Encores after Beethoven (ECM)
In a reflective programme note, the ex-Hungarian pianist Sir András Schiff remembers being rebuked as a young Vienna debutant for playing “a prematurely given encore.”…
Review – Charles Richard-Hamelin: Beethoven, Enescu, Chopin (Analekta)
Charles Richard-Hamelin: Beethoven, Enescu, Chopin Charles Richard-Hamelin, piano Analekta 2016. AN2 9129. 68 min 50 s. Since winning the Silver Medal and the Krystian Zimerman…
Rising Stars – Charles Richard-Hamelin: Prix Opus Decouverte de l’année
After winning the second Concours de Musique International de Montréal (CMIM) in 2014 as well as the Bourbeau Foundation’s Best Canadian Musician, for Charles Richard-Hamelin,…
Video of the Day – Chronological Survey of Beethoven Eroica Symphony Recordings
There have been dozens of recordings of Beethoven’s Eroica Symphony made over the years. The first one dates from the 1920s. It would be a…
