Lebrecht Weekly | Arnold Schoenberg’s “Expressionist Music” (Orchid)
I have no problems with impressionism. It’s what French artists do off the cuff when they can’t be bothered with sketches, what French composers do…
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Newswire | Tara-Louise Montour and OCM in NA Premiere of Louis Babin’s “Phoenix”
For its first concert of the year, the Orchestre Classique de Montréal is featuring the violinist Tara-Louise Montour in a program entitled Phoenix.
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.
This Week in Montreal: March 6 to 12 : Another Brick In The Wall, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, and the Violons du Roy
Monday, March 6 Two quartets at Pro musica: Created in the seventies at Prague Conservatory, the Pražák Quartet has become one of the most…
Lebrecht Weekly – Schoenberg and Shostakovich (CSO.Resound)
Two composers in despair, reaching deep into their souls. Arnold Schoenberg, a penniless refugee in Los Angeles in 1938, was commissioned by a liberal temple…
Lebrecht Weekly – Arnold Schoenberg: Gurre-Lieder (Chandos)
It is so rare to hear the Gurre Lieder live that most of us are acquainted with it only on record – in memorable interpretations…
This Day in Music: 13 July 1951 – Death of Arnold Schoenberg
Known for his twelve-tone method, Arnold Schoenberg was an iconoclast in the classical music world of the early 20th century. His atonal works clashed against…
