I am generally resistant to albums that impose an external theme on unrelated pieces of music from different places and times. In this case, it is eastern Europe, 1814 to 2024.  

Franz Liszt has been cancelled by the world’s orchestras, probably for something he said on social media. Seriously, when was the last time you saw a Liszt orchestral work on a concert programme, other than the two piano concertos?

The Orchestre classique de Montréal (OCM), recent winner of the JUNO Award for Classical Album of the Year, is excited to unveil its 2024/25 season: 85 Years of Emotions.

Music Nova Scotia has announced the nominees for the 2024 Nova Scotia Music & Industry Awards. 

The Royal Conservatory is thrilled to continue its partnership with TD Bank Group during the 2024-25 concert season by confirming yet another season of sponsorship for the TD Jazz Concerts series in Koerner Hall and hiring its first TD Programming and Logistics Coordinator.

Under the Spire, the renowned summer-long concert series, announces the resignation of its Executive Director, Lindsay Connolly with her final day in the role on Sunday August 18th, 2024.

The Glimmerglass Festival, among the top opera festivals in the world, has programmed an exhilarating 50th anniversary season that centers artists and creators, celebrates opera and musical theater legends, and introduces a thrilling world premiere opera based on a beloved book.  

If it’s summer music you’re after, it doesn’t come much sunnier than this. Castelnuovo-Tedesco – it translates as Newcastle German – was a Florentine who traced his lineage to the Jews who were expelled from Spain in 1492.

Leaf Music is thrilled to announce that two of its best-performing albums, Beethoven: Complete Music for Cello & Piano by Robert deMaine & Peter Takacs and Rock Echoes by Kristan Toczko (HarpistKT), are now available in Dolby Atmos, exclusively on Apple Music and Apple Music Classical.

The Metropolitan Opera today announced the contract extension of its Jeanette Lerman-Neubauer Music Director, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, through the 2029–30 season.

While the major exhibition Saints, Sinners, Lovers and Fools: Three Hundred Years of Flemish Masterworks continues its run until October 20 – and, already, it’s been seen by over 50,000 people – the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA) is preparing a host of offerings for this fall, including an opportunity to see more than 100 works that have recently entered the Museum’s collection.

The Glenn Gould Foundation proudly presented the 14th Glenn Gould Prize to Maestro Gustavo Dudamel during a special ceremony at Carnegie Hall on August 2, 2024.

In May of this year, I found myself among leading musicologists and composers attending the Ninth International Conference on Music and Minimalism in my hometown of Belgrade, Serbia. 

Did Bartok play klezmer? The Hungarian composer enthused over many authentic forms of folk music and spent his summers tracking them down across the Balkans, the Iberian peninsula and north Africa.

Most orchestras play just a few consecutive shows, performing the same material over the course of two or three nights.

Les Misérables is one of the world’s most popular musicals (and among my favorites). It follows the life of ex-convict Jean Valjean (Nick Cartell), who, after spending 19 years in prison for stealing a loaf of bread, breaks parole and reinvents himself.

Innu soprano Elisabeth St-Gelais made her Toronto Summer Music debut on July 30 in recital…

Ohio Light Opera (OLO) is the resident professional company of the College, and for 45 years has been presenting operetta and musical comedy. This summer they are offering performances of Guys and Dolls, The Sound of Music, Me and My Girl, The Gondoliers, The Count of Luxembourg, and The Arcadians.

On behalf of the Regina Symphony Board of Directors, I am pleased to announce the appointment of Samuel Deason as the new Executive Director (ED) of the RSO.

Klaus Tennstedt fled East Germany in his mid-40s in 1971 and hung around for half a decade before anyone noticed he was a truly remarkable conductor – ‘last of the old Kapellmeisters,’ as Herbert von Karajan drily put it.

The charm of music en plein air filled the atmosphere in the city of Joliette where the Festival Lanaudière hosted the esteemed Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal.

STATEMENT ISSUED BY SIR JOHN ELIOT GARDINER

The Orchestre Classique de Montréal (OCM) announces the departure of its Artistic Director and Principal Conductor, Maestro Jacques Lacombe.

In the early days of long-playing records, a man in a suit at EMI realised that the Grieg and Schumann concertos were half an hour long, in the same key of A minor and would fit on either side of a plate of shellac without requiring fillers.

In collaboration with Promenade Fleury, ItalfestMTL is pleased to announce, as part of its 31st celebration, the first edition of Promenade des Arts, an art exhibition showcasing the talents of the Italian-Canadian community and Ahuntsic-Cartierville residents.