CD Review | Remembrances (Self-published, 2023)
Montreal percussionist Ziya Tabassian’s new album, Remembrances, features original compositions inspired by Iran’s Safavid musical heritage.
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CD Review | Fifteen Feet Closer to the Sky (Leaf Music, 2023)
Adam Zinatelli’s first solo album consists of pieces composed for trumpet by living composers.
CD Review | An Auditory Survey of the Last Days of the Holocene (Leaf Music, 2023)
The age of humans—the “Holocene era”—is at its end, suggests award-winning composer Frank Horvat on his latest masterpiece, An Auditory Survey of the Last Days of the Holocene.
CD Review | En Route (Leaf Music, 2023)
For better or worse, En Route is a unique example of how track lengths, titles, and human voices (or the lack thereof) affect a listener’s experience of an album.
CD Review | Waves: Music by Rameau, Ravel, and Alkan (Deutsche Grammophon, 2023)
Bruce Liu’s new album, Waves, opens with Rameau’s well-known Gavotte et six doubles, a stately French dance with variations, each of which explore and ornament the theme in a different and more dramatic way.
CD Review | Recurrence (Leaf Music, 2023)
Recurrence is a collaboration between members of the ICOT (Iranian-Canadian Composers of Toronto) Chamber Orchestra, the New Orford String Quartet and two eminent Canadian composers.
CD Review | Los Santos y Pecadores (UNFIT Music, 2023)
With their new album Los Santos y Pecadores, Toronto-born band Battle of Santiago’s latest musical experiment continues to arouse the curiosity of audiences on the alternative Latin experimental scene.
Lebrecht’s Album of the Week: Christopher Rouse – 5th symphony (Naxos)
When Christopher Rouse died ten months ago, aged 70, it seemed to spell the end of a line of American composers who placed the symphony…
OdM Eugene Onegin Offers a Dynamic Duo and More
This was one of the best-cast and least-tampered-with Opéra de Montréal presentations in recent memory.Opera’s newest power couple – so Etienne Dupuis and Nicole Car…
CD Review – Transient Canvas, Wired
Transient Canvas, Wired / New Focus Recordings, 2018 The latest creation of the American duo Transient Canvas, Wired continues the exploratory work undertaken by Amy Advocat…
