Echoes of some of the most singular and intriguing contemporary music written by Canadian and international composers will resonate this spring in Toronto’s Koerner Hall…
Musikfest Berlin is a late summer festival which you’re unlikely to see on the same culture vulture circuit that includes Salzburg, Bayreuth, Aix-en-Provence, and Munich.…
Did you catch Herbert Blomstedt and Maria João Pires with the Berlin Philharmonic on Saturday? All it took was a smartphone, a subscription to the…
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…
The Argentine-born Sol Gabetta, now in her mid-30s, made her first recording of the Elgar concerto six years ago in Denmark, an impressive performance stressed…
It was 25 years ago this month (July 16) that Herbert von Karajan passed away. He was 81 and still conducting regularly even though he had…
Berlioz was one of the most innovative orchestrators in the history of music. He had a genius for combining instruments to produce unusual sonorities, and…
Last year Jaap van Zweden got a call from the Berlin Philharmonic to fill in for an ailing conductor. He did and made his debut…
Claudio Abbado’s passing last week was not unexpected – he had been seriously ill for some time – but it came as a heavy blow…
November 22 was the 100th anniversary of the birth of Benjamin Britten. During his lifetime Britten was recognized as one of the foremost composers of…
