SCRUTINY | Christopher Purves: The Art of Song
By Joseph So on February 10, 2016
Christopher Purves: The Art of Song. The British bass-baritone dazzles audiences in Handel and Mussorgsky.
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By Joseph So on February 10, 2016
Christopher Purves: The Art of Song. The British bass-baritone dazzles audiences in Handel and Mussorgsky.
(Continue reading)By Nicholas Godsoe on February 9, 2016
"As the string quartet, (in full tuxedo) followed by Gonzales, (in a suave, velveteen, burgundy robe) assumed the stage, the audience went wild..."
(Continue reading)By Michael Vincent on February 7, 2016
The audience was buzzing when I overheard a proclamation: "Tanya!" That Tanya, of course, was Tanya Tagaq, an Inuk throat singer from Cambridge Bay (Iqaluktuutiaq), Nunavut, located on Victoria Island.
(Continue reading)By Michael Vincent on February 5, 2016
What would Beethoven have heard? Brandishing the equivalent of field cannons, pitch-forks and bull-whips, with gut strings, valveless horns and baroque contrabassoon, Tafelmusik proposed a possible answer with a performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony last night.
(Continue reading)By Michael Vincent on January 28, 2016
With a brew of composers rarely mixed, soprano Barbara Hannigan joined the Toronto Symphony last night to perform Henri Dutilleux's "Correspondances" – a 22-minute song cycle which she has remained loyal since first recording it with Esa-Pekka Salonen, in 2013.
(Continue reading)By Tyler Versluis on January 27, 2016
Enter Esprit Orchestra on January 24th in Koerner Hall, where a varied programme of music in by Samuel Andreyev, Daníel Bjarnason, Alexina Louie and R. Murray Schafer demonstrated how wide and multi-faceted these creative executions have become in 2016.
(Continue reading)By Arthur Kaptainis on January 17, 2016
The engagement of Bernard Labadie as the conductor of two January Mozart programs (and five concerts) had been on the Toronto Symphony Orchestra books for years. There was nevertheless an aura of suspense Saturday at Roy Thomson Hall – this evening representing Labadie’s first public appearance in Canada after a long and grueling convalescence from lymphoma that included a month in an induced coma.
(Continue reading)By Adam Scime on January 16, 2016
The JACK Quartet has rightly become a towering vehicle for the performance and championing of contemporary music. With an impressive seventeen commercial recordings, numerous awards of international recognition, and commissions from the world’s leading composers, the JACK Quartet has successfully won over contemporary music lovers with a commanding performance bravura and dazzling musicianship.
(Continue reading)By Joseph So on January 1, 2016
Billed as “Opera's Greatest Hits,” Bravissimo stars well-known Canadian and international singers in an operatic potpourri familiar to even the most casual opera fan.
(Continue reading)By Michael Vincent on December 20, 2015
Returning after three years' grace from the Toronto Messiah circuit, Against the Grain Theatre presented a fully staged barefoot of Messiah. It's refreshing to say the least...
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