CD Review | Voyages (Atma Classique, 2024)
This Juno Award-winning pianist just won’t stop. Philip Chiu’s Voyages is another incredible release that’s sure to wow solo piano enthusiasts.
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CMIM Piano 2024 Predictions
A team consisting of pianist Fiona Wu, musicologist Justin Bernard, and pianist/musicologist Viktor Lazarov have drawn their top predictions for the CMIM 2024 winners.
Anderson & Roe: Exhilarating Creativity
Pianists Greg Anderson and Elizabeth Joy Roe have electrified audiences worldwide since their first concert as a duo two decades ago, at The Juilliard School.
CD Review | Works for the Bassoon by Māori Composers (WSU Recordings Label, 2023)
This album by WSU faculty members Jacqueline Wilson (bassoon), Sophia Tegart (flute) and Fabio Menchetti (piano) features works by Maori composers.
CD Review | American Spiritual (Leaf Music, 2024)
Newfoundland native Michael Lee plays an interesting selection of rarely-heard piano music by African-American composers Florence Price, Margaret Bonds, and Robert Nathaniel Dett.
CD Review | Schubert: Melodist (Analekta, 2024)
Gaudet’s pianism always guarantees control and expressiveness at the highest level. It is not easy to find pianists who know how to give proof of clarity and sobriety, while transmitting warmth to the listener.
CD Review | Nikolai Medtner: Les trois dernières sonates pour piano (Atma Classique, 2024)
The excellent recording quality, piano, and editing contributes to the high artistic quality of this album.
Concert Review | Igor Levit Gives Stunning Toronto Recital
There are many great pianists in this world, but there’s only one Igor Levit. Typical hyperbole in music journalism, you say? Levit’s recent Koerner Hall would suggest otherwise.
Breaking the Mould: Isata Kanneh-Mason takes on Prokofiev with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra
British rising star, classical pianist Isata Kanneh-Mason will make her debut with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra (TSO) on March 22, 23, and 24 at Roy Thompson Hall.
Lebrecht Weekly | Bezhod Abduraimov: Shadows of My Ancestors (Alpha-Classics)
In the more sentimental pieces of the Prokofiev set on this new album, Bezhod Abduraimov melts the listener’s heart like spring snows.
