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By John Terauds on April 29, 2016
Yesteryear’s music from an also-ran composer made for an extraordinary concert on Thursday night at the hands of Tafelmusik Orchestra and Tafelmusik Chamber Choir under conductor Ivars Taurins at Jeanne Lamon Hall.
(Continue reading)By John Terauds on February 15, 2016
This music has been compelling fresh ears for nearly a century-and-a-half and, fortunately for anyone fond of Brahms’ compositions, the New Orford Quartet has put together an equally compelling case for their own interpretations.
(Continue reading)By John Terauds on November 30, 2015
Toronto’s Pax Christi Chorale released a new CD that treads familiar musical ground in a selection of pieces that straddles the sacred and secular.
(Continue reading)By John Terauds on November 25, 2015
One of the ways to sum up the change in our relationship to recorded music over the past two decades is to call it the triumph of mobility over fidelity. John Terauds chats with Belgian musician Piet Goddaer about audio quality and transferring the immediacy of a live concert into recorded sound.
(Continue reading)By John Terauds on October 5, 2015
Ottawa-based pianist David Jalbert puts on an impressive magic show in his latest solo album, which interweaves pieces by French composers Erik Satie and Francis Poulenc.
(Continue reading)By John Terauds on September 27, 2015
John Terauds shares his thoughts on the search for meaning and appreciation in music. What about simply letting the music be what it is?
(Continue reading)By John Terauds on July 16, 2015
Italian-based, American-born keyboardist and conductor Alan Curtis died suddenly on July 15 in Florence at the age of 81. His contribution to the revival of Italian Baroque opera was huge, he left a rich legacy of period-performance resources for organ and harpsichord, and helped boost the careers of Canadian soprano Karina Gauvin and mezzo Marie-Nicole Lemieux through recordings made with his period-instrument ensemble, Il complesso barocco.
(Continue reading)By John Terauds on June 18, 2015
In the era of online arts blogs and in-house publications, is the idea of paying for arts coverage unethical?
(Continue reading)By John Terauds on April 9, 2015
Every once in a while, someone comes along to spill hot tea over the veneer of civil society, and we get a chance to watch it crack and curl before our eyes...
(Continue reading)By John Terauds on November 18, 2014
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