Concert Review | TSO Concludes the Season with Mahler’s Third Symphony
The Toronto Symphony Orchestra (TSO) ended its 2023-2024 season in grand style with a glorious performance of Mahler’s Symphony No. 3.
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Concert Review | Rafael Payare Conducts MSO in Vigorous Mahler Seventh Symphony
On Jan. 16, the Montreal Symphony Orchestra delivered a sumptuous performance of Szymanowsky’s Violin Concerto n.1 op.35 and Mahler’s Symphony n7 in E minor.
Lebrecht Weekly | Album of the Year (2023)
Album of the Year? There’s quite a few, from Vikingur Olaffson’s Goldberg Variations to Yuja Wang’s Rachmaninov concertos, to Semyon Bychkov Resurrection Symphony.
Concert Review | David Robertson Makes Toronto Symphony Debut in Berg and Mahler
Replacing Michael Tilson Thomas this week was American conductor David Robertson, who made his Toronto Symphony Orchestra debut.
‘A Single Will’: Leonard Bernstein, the Conductor
Leonard Bernstein steps off his podium and walks away from an orchestra in the throes of Brahms’s First Symphony. The musicians are now missing a conductor, but they don’t miss a single beat.
Lebrecht Weekly | BBC Legends Volume 4 (ICA Classics)
New from ICA Classics: BBC Legends Volume 4. “And there shall come to pass at the end of days when every recording that was ever made is gathered together and ascended to heaven for all to hear,” Norman Lebrecht says.
OSJM celebrates its second anniversary with Mahler’s Second Symphony
Founded in 1976 and directed since 1986 by Louis Lavigueur, the OSJM is known as one of Canada’s best young people’s orchestras. It comprises 72…
Mahler: Eighth Symphony (DG)
The largest symphony ever written, designed for the outdoors and knocked off in six summer weeks without revision, Mahler never expected to see the 8th…
Susan Platts: Mahler, Mentors and Music Education
British-born Canadian mezzo Susan Platts has been delighting audiences around the world with her expertise in art song; her first solo album of songs by…
Austin Symphony’s “Feast of Voices” Imaginative Programming
“FEAST OF VOICES” Beethoven-Bruckner: Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor Op. 13 “Pathétique” (lst movement) Vaughan Williams: Flos Campi Mahler-Britten: Symphony No. 3 (2nd…
