*Very limited seats remaining!* September 14, 2017, Montreal, QC – The MCO, under its Artistic Director Boris Brott, opens its 78th season with Revolution, an eclectic evening…
The second concerto for cello by Dmitri Shostakovich is the least ingratiating of the six he wrote, two for each major instrument. Opening with a…
Saisons Russes de Montréal celebrates its fifth anniversary this year. The festival was founded by two pianists, Jean-Fabien Schneider and Irina Krasnyanskaya, the latter of…
Great recordings are easy to review. Likewise bad ones. About 99.5 percent of all releases fall somewhere in between. Of these, four in five quickly…
Monday, March 6 Two quartets at Pro musica: Created in the seventies at Prague Conservatory, the Pražák Quartet has become one of the most…
What is remarkable about both piano concertos is that neither was intended for virtuoso performers. Shostakovich wrote the first in 1933 for himself to play…
If the print on this review goes blurry on your screen it’s because I’m still rubbing my eyes at the cast list on this astonishing…
A concert recorded in Geneva in September will be broadcast on the radio today Thursday November 10 at 8 p.m on ICI Musique and on…
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…
The late Soviet system created damaging monopolies in the arts as much as they did in state industry. The big brands – Shostakovich, Khachaturian –…
