CD REVIEW | Gryphon Trio Struggles to Catch Fire With New CD of Canadian Music

By Paul E. Robinson on June 22, 2015

Gryphon Trio brings together four Canadian works in world premiere recordings in "Elements Eternal."

CD REVIEW | Distilling the Spaces Between Carthage and Rome

By Jay Caron on January 28, 2015

I am always skeptical of what I would call “fusion” composition; I would briefly describe this as taking the harmonic language, rhythms, or instruments of some non-western culture, or the elements of a popular music genre, and unceremoniously shoving them into the context of western art music. This could perhaps be analogized as mixing water and oil; things that are, on their own, valuable, but which resist amalgamation. The result can often leave me wondering whether greater care could have been taken to present each separate element in its best light. It is a technique dangerously prone to superficiality...

Album review: Jocelyn Morlock’s poisonous, magnetic, and radioactive Cobalt

By Michael Vincent on March 19, 2014

Andrew Staniland wins 2014 Harry Freedman Recording Award

By Michael Vincent on February 28, 2014

Album review: Jean-Baptiste Robin brings out the full glory of the American symphonic pipe organ

By John Terauds on January 28, 2014

Album review: The MP3 shuffle and serendipity align Nick Storring and George Frideric Handel

By John Terauds on January 21, 2014

Interview: Violinist Hilary Hahn gives us a lesson in the art of the concert encore

By John Terauds on January 13, 2014

Album review: Percussion bridges gap between art music and entertainment

By John Terauds on January 11, 2014

Vincent Ho, Evelyn Glennie and Winnipeg Symphony out to conjure $85,000 in crowdfunding for Shaman recording

By John Terauds on January 8, 2014

Album review: This is your musical life, Arvo Pärt -- as laid out by pianist Joeroen van Veen

By John Terauds on January 7, 2014