In an hour-long work, the first two movements of Bruckner’s 7th Symphony take up forty minutes and can appear top-heavy. Haitink avoids the pitfall with a steady beat that is mitigated by lightness and touches of wit.
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Browsing: Chamber Music
TSO and TMC performing Messiah (Photo by Allan Cabral)
Sitting in the audience at the TSO Messiah this past Sunday, I kept thinking how lucky I was to witness another performance of Messiah in the familiar Roy Thomson Hall.
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Marlena Malas
Musicians have been paying tribute to Marlena Malas, a renowned mezzo-soprano and respected music teacher at the Juilliard School who died on Dec. 4, 2023 at the age of 87.
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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.
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Hermitage Piano Trio (Photo by Lisa Marie Mazzucco)
A much-deserved credit to the LMMC’s choice in this season’s guest artists, Montreal should hope to hear Hermitage Piano Trio back in our enchanting wintry city in the years to come.
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ARC Ensemble (Photo by Stuart Lowe)
The Royal Conservatory of Music’s full house who braved the frosty November weather was rewarded with three Canadian premieres of hidden classical gems by Friedrich Block, performed by ARC Ensemble.
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Vincent Lauzer (Photo by Julien Faugère) and Dorothea Ventura (Photo by Robert Etcheverry)
On November 29, the Montreal Bach Festival hosted Vincent Lauzer and Dorothéa Ventura with an unusual program as part of their Off Bach programming.
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Aline Kutan (Photo provided by Sinfonia de l'Ouest)
The Sinfonia de l’Ouest will present its second concert of the 2023-2024 Season at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, December 9th with guest artist soprano Aline Kutan.
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Dark Flower pulls together more than 25 years of atmospheric compositions by Linda Catlin Smith for a mesmerizing avant-garde journey.
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Electric Messiah
Soundstreams’ 41st season continues this December with Electric Messiah, the company’s 8th annual dynamic and original reimagination of Handel’s timeless classic.
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