SCRUTINY | A Distinctively Boston Berlioz In The Big Smoke
By Arthur Kaptainis on March 6, 2017
Boston Symphony Orchestra keeps the audience on tenterhooks with Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique at Roy Thomson Hall.
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By Arthur Kaptainis on March 6, 2017
Boston Symphony Orchestra keeps the audience on tenterhooks with Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique at Roy Thomson Hall.
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A Walton heavy program meets some resistance at the annual visit by National Arts Centre Orchestra with classical guitar legend Pepe Romero.
(Continue reading)By Arthur Kaptainis on February 16, 2017
Canadian piano sensation Jan Lisiecki and guest conductor Jakub Hrůšadraw draw poetry from Schumann’s ardent Piano Concerto at Roy Thomson Hall.
(Continue reading)By Arthur Kaptainis on January 25, 2017
Toronto Symphony Orchestra release details on Peter Oundjian's final season as Music Director with the TSO.
(Continue reading)By Arthur Kaptainis on January 22, 2017
The Toronto Symphony Orchestra launched Canada 150 celebrations this weekend with some former favourites from the classical Canadian top 40 at Roy Thomson Hall.
(Continue reading)By Arthur Kaptainis on January 15, 2017
Naxos raises the bar with Wagner Die Walküre release featuring Petra Lang, Heidi Melton, Michelle DeYoung, Stuart Skelton, and Matthias Goerne.
(Continue reading)By Arthur Kaptainis on January 12, 2017
The TSO highlight Mozart's genius with a program featuring 14-year-old Canadian Leonid Nediak, and 20-year-old Canadian violinist Kerson Leong.
(Continue reading)By Arthur Kaptainis on December 1, 2016
What a disappointment. I travel all the way to New York to see a widely condemned updating of Puccini’s Manon Lescaut, complete with a jumble of sets pointlessly evoking Nazi-occupied France — and I kind of like it.
(Continue reading)By Arthur Kaptainis on November 28, 2016
Guest conductor Long Yu pulls an extraordinary Shostakovich from the Toronto Symphony.
(Continue reading)By Arthur Kaptainis on November 18, 2016
First, the Berlin Philharmonic, and now the New York Philharmonic, Arthur Kaptainis (our man about town) gets no peace from blockbuster orchestras.
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