LEBRECHT LISTENS | Classical Music Albums Of The Year 2023
By Norman Lebrecht on December 8, 2023

Album of the Year? There’s quite a few, from Vikingur's Goldberg Variations to the Danish National Symphony Orchestra and Nielsen.
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By Norman Lebrecht on December 8, 2023
Album of the Year? There’s quite a few, from Vikingur's Goldberg Variations to the Danish National Symphony Orchestra and Nielsen.
(Continue reading)By Joseph So on December 7, 2023
A favourite concert for me is the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir’s annual Festival of Carols, an event I have been attending for years.
(Continue reading)By Arthur Kaptainis on December 1, 2023
Alex Pauk and his Esprit Orchestra offered pieces from Slovenia, Lithuania, Ukraine and Finland, or at least by composers born in these countries.
(Continue reading)By Paula Citron on December 1, 2023
Despite its promise, and a stellar cast and creative team, Morris Panych’s Withrow Park leaves you wondering, just what was that all about?
(Continue reading)By Norman Lebrecht on December 1, 2023
With this release of Austrian composer Thomas Larcher's work, you'll wind up transfixed by music of hypnotic power, driving towards an inescapable destiny.
(Continue reading)By Arthur Kaptainis on November 30, 2023
Maxim Emelyanychev made his Toronto Symphony Orchestra debut Wednesday in Roy Thomson Hall with his own arrangement of Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty.
(Continue reading)By Paula Citron on November 29, 2023
You will leave Jani Lauzon's Prophecy Fog feeling that you have been touched in some profound way, swept up in the ceremony and the storytelling.
(Continue reading)By Paula Citron on November 27, 2023
The casting is near perfect, and all the actors give very strong performances in Mirvish's production of To Kill A Mockingbird.
(Continue reading)By Norman Lebrecht on November 24, 2023
Magdalena Kožená is a conviction singer, and I emerged almost totally convinced by this trawl through four sets of orchestrated folk songs.
(Continue reading)By Arthur Kaptainis on November 23, 2023
David Robertson was brought in as a substitute to lead the TSO for ailing Michael Tilson Thomas, with respectable if not quite optimally Mahlerian results.
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