Review | Czech Philharmonic: A Rare Treat of Czech Music in Canada
2024 is the Year of Czech Music. Inaugurated in 1924 to celebrate the centenary of the birth of Bedřich Smetana, this tradition occurs every decade…
Browsing: Gustav Mahler
CD Review | Strauss: Ein Heldenleben; Mahler: Rückert Lieder
Strauss: Ein Heldenleben; Mahler: Rückert Lieder Sonya Yoncheva, soprano; Orchestre symphonique de Montréal; Rafael Payare, conductor Pentatone, 2024 Following their successful release last year on…
Pentaèdre back for its 38th season
No one – on the home front or Beyond – questions the excellence of Montreal’s stellar wind quintet, Pentaèdre, recognized for their extensive repertoire of…
Lebrecht Weekly | Hans Rott: Symphony in E minor (Deutsche Grammophon)
Some time in the late 1980s, questions were raised as to whether Gustav Mahler really wrote his first two symphonies. The issue arose after a…
DID YOU KNOW THAT…
. . THE BELGIAN COMPOSER BOUDEWIJN BUCKINX (B. 1945) WROTE NINE UNFINISHED SYMPHONIES?All were composed in a single year, 1992. . . . PLUTO HADN’T…
Lebrecht’s Album of the Week: Valentin Silvestrov – 7th symphony (Naxos)
I often wonder when listening to Silvestrov’s music why he is not one of the most performed living composers. His music is at once mentally…
Requiem, The Pity of War (Warner)
Another themed album, but for once a timely theme. Ian Bostridge has chosen sets by two composers who fell in the First World War and…
Bay and Austin Symphony Superb in Mahler Sixth
MAHLER: Symphony No. 6. Austin Symphony Orchestra/Peter Bay, conductor. Long Center for the Performing Arts, Austin, Texas. March 25, 2017 Symphony No. 6 first saw…
Daily News Roundup: 2 December 2016
The handwritten partition of Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 was sold at £4.54 million ($7.6 million CAN) at Sotheby’s in London. The amount represents a…
Orchestre de la Francophonie at 15
The Orchestre de la Francophonie will celebrate its 15th anniversary this summer. The program for the evening, which will take place at la Maison symphonique…
