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.

Valerie Milot's Orbis explores the idea of the loop in a CD full of fresh harp repertoire.

He knows what he has to say and he says it entirely in his own way. Meet violinist Daniel Lozakovich.

"Schafer has created a sound world that is convincingly primitive from beginning to end." Analekta releases R. Murray Schafer's Apocalypsis, a massive extravaganza comprised of two parts.

And the most potent display of all came from the conductor: Hungarian composer Peter Eötvös.

Someone should have declared today’s 100th anniversary of The Rite of Spring‘s premiere as Igor Stravinsky Day. It’s the perfect excuse for a quick peek into the composer’s Toronto connections (which included Glenn Gould) through a new book by retired conductor and Stravinsky assistant, Robert Craft.

Anyone interested in Tchaikovsky, great conducting, and music-making in Russia in the Twentieth Century, will find a lot of pleasure in these six DVDs.

The book centres around Kallmann’s lifelong efforts to produce a solid chronicle of Canadian art music history — from creating an inventory of Canadian composers for the CBC after World War II to his invaluable contributions to the Encyclopedia of Music in Canada in the 1990s.

That means we don’t hear this masterpiece nearly enough. So all the more reason to snap up this great recording.