Review | An Overwhelming Winterreise from Matthias Goerne & Daniil Trifonov at Koerner Hall
The first verse in Schubert’s Winterreise is in the past tense: “I came here as a stranger, and as a stranger I leave again.” But…
Browsing: Matthias Goerne
2025-26 Concert Season Starts at The Royal Conservatory of Music
The 17th season at Koerner Hall starts with one of the top 10 most streamed classical music artists in the world and a regular on prestigious stages in France…
CD Review | Matthias Goerne, Late Shostakovich Songs
Shostakovich: Suite on Verses of Michelangelo, October Matthias Goerne, baritone; Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France; Mikko Franck, conductor Alpha Classics, 2025 This new CD release…
Album of the Year 2021
Choosing an album of the year is never easy. In a pandemic period of alternating isolation and emergence, there are additional pressures and distortions. A…
Review – Franz Schubert: String Quintet – Lieder (Erato)
His final work for strings, Schubert’s Quintet in C Major (1828) is unusual for its doubling of the cello voice rather than the viola, Mozart’s…
Music In The City: Toronto Summer Music Festival
Conductor Agnes Grossmann (Photo courtesy of TSMF)Summer has traditionally been a quiet time musically in Toronto, with the opera, symphony and ballet all in hiatus.…
