CD Review | Nadia Boulanger, La ville morte
Boulanger/Pugno: La ville morte Melissa Harvey, soprano; Laurie Rubin, mezzo-soprano; Joshua Dennis, tenor; Jorell Williams, baritone; Talea Ensemble; Neil Goren, conductor Pentatone, 2025 La ville…
Browsing: Nadia Boulanger
Midori Marsh: The Fast-Rising Soprano Explores Sisterhood & Animal Rights
Ever since American-Canadian soprano Midori Marsh won First Prize and the Audience Choice Award at the 2019 Canadian Opera Company Centre Stage competition, her career…
Review | NAC Orchestra’s stellar performance of The Planets
It was a phenomenal night of endings and new beginnings for the National Arts Centre (NAC): the orchestra capped off both 2023’s Mentorship program and…
Piazzolla Cien Anos (Century Records)
One of the sadder casualties of the Covid shutdown has been the centenary plans for Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992), the Argentine composer whose music exquisitely captures…
Lebrecht’s Album of the Week: Dear Mademoiselle (Alpha)
An unprepossessing Parisian teacher of piano and solfège received an unexpected career boost when the victorious General Pershing opened a French music school for Americans at…
Lebrecht Weekly – Nadia Boulanger: Works (Delos/SWR Music)
In half a century of listening to records, I cannot recall ever hearing music by the noted French pedagogue Nadia Boulanger. Revered by a stream…
