SCRUTINY | TSO New Creations Festival: So-So Sounds From Down Under
By Arthur Kaptainis on March 11, 2016
Brett Dean, James Ledger, and Paul Frehner participate in the second instalment of TSO's New Creations Festival.
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By Arthur Kaptainis on March 11, 2016
Brett Dean, James Ledger, and Paul Frehner participate in the second instalment of TSO's New Creations Festival.
(Continue reading)By Joseph So on March 7, 2016
Toronto voice fans are fond of spending Sundays in a recital hall for a good old Liederabend - albeit in the afternoon! For years, the main attraction was the Aldeburgh Connection with its richly detailed and always satisfying, theme-based programming. With the retirement of its co-creators Stephen Ralls and Bruce Ubukata, suddenly there was a void.
(Continue reading)By Michael Vincent on March 6, 2016
DJ Skratch Bastid Spins with the TSO for opening night of New Creations Festival
(Continue reading)By Michael Vincent on March 3, 2016
There has been a lot of fuss about Norwegian violinist Vilde Frang. Equipped with a 1709 “Engleman” Stradivari and a series of CD's with Warner Classics boasting lustrous reviews, the 29-year old is an artist on the cusp of stardom.
(Continue reading)By Robin Roger on March 3, 2016
Talisker Players combine poetic and mythical traditions for an innovative concert with modern vocal chamber music.
(Continue reading)By Michael Vincent on February 29, 2016
A concert hall, a piano, and a pair of hands – this was all that was needed for a musically fulsome afternoon with Hungarian Pianist Sir András Schiff.
(Continue reading)By Michael Vincent on February 26, 2016
"Langrée rose to the occasion, as did the TSO, who matched Hamelin's shifting focus between heart-melting melodies and sweeping rambles across the keyboard."
(Continue reading)By Joseph So on February 22, 2016
Allow me to borrow a famous term from the 1960’s Hippie Counterculture – last evening’s recital by Russian baritone Dmitri Hvorostovky at Koerner Hall was the veritable Love-In.
(Continue reading)By Michael Vincent on February 21, 2016
It was a banquet of blurry fingers at Roy Thomson Hall Saturday night, as pianist Pavel Kolesnikov stopped by to lend his musical finesse to Rachmaninoff's “Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini”.
(Continue reading)By Joseph So on February 11, 2016
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