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…
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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.
Kerson Leong: Inspiration, Balance, and Connection
If you go to Canadian violinist Kerson Leong’s Facebook page, you will see a short video of Niccolò Paganini’s Violin Concerto No. 1. The video…
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In Osaka every December there is a performance of Beethoven’s Ninth with a chorus of 10,000? No, that’s not a misprint. 10,000 singers! They…
