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Based on last Saturday’s concert in Roy Thomson Hall, this next live concert recording of Stravinsky’s Pulcinella promises to be a winner.
VOICEBOX: Opera in Concert presents Verdi’s Ernani for Toronto Audiences
2024-2025 season announcements continue, Apple may be fined over $700 million CAD for allegedly stifling Spotify, and Concordia and McGill University are legally challenging the Quebec government over tuition increases.
In the more sentimental pieces of the Prokofiev set on this new album, Bezhod Abduraimov melts the listener’s heart like spring snows.
Many Canadian ensembles, from Club musical de Québec and Sinfonia Toronto to Vancouver Opera and Ensemble ArtChoral, are announcing their upcoming 2024-2025 seasons.
Maestra Eun Sun Kim, conductor of the San Francisco Opera, and local favourite pianist Louis Lortie joined forces with the MSO for a program of works for piano and orchestra.
Spin this record of Tchaikovsky’s fifth symphony played at a 1971 live concert at the Royal Albert Hall by the Leningrad Symphony and you will see what we are missing.
The Melnikov-Faust-Queyras Trio offered a program of Schumann, Carter, and Brahms at Koerner Hall, which had its ups and downs.
It is now common parlance to note that even up until the early 1980s, Dvořák’s 1901 opera Rusalka was little-seen outside of its native Czech land. Since then, and it seems even more true in recent seasons, it has become a staple at major houses throughout Europe, the U.K. and even in North America. However, it had never been presented by the Hungarian State Opera barring two guest productions from Bratislava and Prague in 1956 and 1976. That neglect has now finally been corrected with János Szikora’s brilliant new production that premiered on January 27, and which I saw on…
From the announcement of JUNO nominations to GRAMMY winners, it’s been a busy week for awards!
