To the average concertgoer, Rachmaninov is probably best known for writing lush, romantic melodies and music of great passion; that said, he was also a man with an appreciation for the darker side of life.

The twenty-three-year-old British pianist Benjamin Grosvenor has been winning competitions and flabbergasting critics and audiences since he was eleven.

The annual summer Montreal International Music Competition dinner-concert has become a genuine summer hot spot for Quebec’s classical music community.

Breaking from past settings of Mozart, Joel Ivany and Against the Grain have reconfigured Kopernikus for a new operatic headspace.

Thwarted love inspires art and is relieved by beautiful music in Talisker Players' Cross’d by the Stars.

Women’s Musical Club of Toronto opened in grand style on October 5, with a recital given by two virtuosi extraordinaire, violinist Lara St. John and pianist Matt Herskowitz.

"For Glenn Gould" provides his own clear-headed renderings that make as much sense as the original, yet sound only like Goodyear.

The Toronto Consort and an excellent cast of guests introduced us to a peculiar operatic take on Helen on Friday night, in the first of three concert performances of Helen of Troy.

Chandos CHSA 5145 (45:20)

Jan Lisiecki returns to Koerner Hall with a fist full of new repertoire and a whole new sound.