Review | Kerson Leong Dazzles in Lopsided Les Violons du Roy Program
For Valentine’s Day, Les Violons du Roy presented a program full of pathos at Montreal’s Bourgie Hall. On the program were iconic excerpts from J.S…
Browsing: Mendelssohn
Lebrecht Weekly | Unknown Pieces for Multiple Pianos and Orchestra by Mendelssohn, Moscheles, Schubert and Liszt (Hyperion)
German composers don’t know how to have fun. Think no further than Mozart’s Musical Joke, or Beethoven’s fat-shaming of the violinist Schuppanzigh. Not funny at…
N’essuie jamais de larmes sans gants: Certainly not nostalgia
Reading Jonas Gardell’s novel N’essuie jamais de larmes sans gants, set in Sweden at the start of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, appealed to Alexandre Fecteau, who has now become a recognized director.
Concert Review | András Schiff’s Incredible Korner Hall Performance
This was Sir András Schiff’s seventh appearance at Koerner Hall and I doubt that it will be his last, says critic Paul Robinson.
Tomson Highway: Music and Beyond Meets “Cree Bossa Nova”
In the last two years, Cree composer and playwright Tomson Highway has published two books, recorded his newest album Cree Country, won the Governor General’s…
Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel’s Songs Mature
Fanny Hensel, ‘the other Mendelssohn’: Complete Songs (Champs Hill) I’m uncomfortable with the album title. Rather than being ‘the other Mendelssohn’, Fanny was the heart…
Philippe Bourque’s Mendelssohn Elijah
In 1846, when Felix Mendelssohn conducted the commissioned premiere of his oratorio Elijah for the Birmingham Festival he presided over an orchestra of one hundred…
Lebrecht Weekly – The alternative record of the year
Most critics pick their album of the year from the ones they reviewed over the past 52 weeks. I’ve decided to choose from the ones…
Lebrecht Weekly – Felix Mendelssohn: Songs without words (BIS)
As a general rule, I would rather eat porridge that has been left to stand overnight than listen to music of the romantic era being…
Summer Reading: La carte des Mendelssohn
La carte des Mendelssohn Diane Meur Sabine Wespieser éditeur, 461 p. Diane Meur decided to investigate the ancestors of Felix Mendelssohn: his father Abraham Mendelssohn…
