A stirring finale to OM Brahms cycle
Happy ending. Not literally, of course, since Brahms’s Fourth Symphony – as Yannick Nézet-Séguin pointed out Saturday to an audience of about 250 in the…
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Karl Goldmark’s Die Königin Von Saba: An Opera Worth Reviving, with or without a Jewish Soul
Johannes Brahms was in a foul mood one evening while dining at the house of the pianist Ignaz Brüll, a popular host in Vienna in…
Kings College Choir Delivers Uplifting English Brahms Requiem
Brahms: An English Requiem (Delphian) Mary Bevan, soprano Marcus Farnsworth, baritone James Baillieu and Richard Uttley, piano Choir of Kings College London, conductor Joseph Fort…
Brahms: Clarinet Quintet in B minor, String Quartet No. 3 in B flat major
James Campbell, clarinet; New Zealand String Quartet Naxos 8.573454, 76 min 36 s. For many Canadian music-lovers clarinetist James Campbell will be the main attraction…
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…
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…
Review: Lewis Furey’s English Night of Brahms
Let’s get this out of the way: singer and songwriter Lewis Furey has a style like Rufus Wainwright – you either like his timbre and…
Lewis Furey’s English Night of Brahms
Let’s get this out of the way. Singer and songwriter Lewis Furey has a style like Rufus Wainwright; you either like his timbre and affected…
This Week in Montreal (November 7-13)
Opera McGill’s 60th The McGill Schulich School of Music is offering up a vibrant season in celebration of Montreal’s 375th anniversary. Opera McGill is…
Lewis Furey: Passion for Brahms Lieder
“Forget You,” “Sweet Surrender,” “Just a Feeling.” If you guessed these song titles were plucked from this week’s Top Forty list, then Lewis Furey would…
