SCRUTINY | Orlando Consort Reimagines The Passion of Joan of Arc
By Will Pearson on April 4, 2016
Classic film reimagined by the Orlando Consort with a live vocal score.
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By Will Pearson on April 4, 2016
Classic film reimagined by the Orlando Consort with a live vocal score.
(Continue reading)By Arthur Kaptainis on April 4, 2016
Voicebox Opera offers Isis and Osiris, Gods of Egypt, a collaboration of two veterans, composer Peter-Anthony Togni and librettist Sharon Singer. I think it is fair to say this two-hour-plus enterprise (intermission not included) is a troubled piece that will be need revision before it is mounted again.
(Continue reading)By Michael Vincent on April 2, 2016
If you see Koerner Hall looking a little bit disheveled this morning, that's because Cameron Carpenter's debut digital touring organ gave the hall, and the patrons inside, a reverberant shake.
(Continue reading)By Paul E. Robinson on April 2, 2016
Elgar’s Symphony No. 1 has a unique power to move us in passage after passage. In the end, all we can say is that the composer has created something uncommonly beautiful. So too have conductor Daniel Barenboim and his musicians in this recording.
(Continue reading)By Joseph So on March 30, 2016
Everybody loves a tenor. And when it’s not one but four of them lending their collective voices to a program of operatic chestnuts and Neapolitan Songs, the several members of the audience, primarily female, could be forgiven for being a touch delirious…
(Continue reading)By Paul E. Robinson on March 28, 2016
Dvořák: Stabat mater, Op. 58 - Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra: "Beautiful and profound music-making that well deserves repeated hearings."
(Continue reading)By Joseph So on March 22, 2016
The University of Toronto Faculty of Music presents an evening of works with soloists Andrew Haji (tenor) and Megan Quick (mezzo-soprano).
(Continue reading)By John Terauds on March 20, 2016
Yundi receives affectionate welcome with all-Chopin programme, but missing nuance and over-pedalling prevent a truly spellbinding performance.
(Continue reading)By Paul E. Robinson on March 19, 2016
Paul E Robinson looks at the legacy of Leonard Bernstein with new review of a DVD and CD of music by Sibelius and others, including Bernstein's former protégé Marin Alsop.
(Continue reading)By Joseph So on March 17, 2016
Ivars Taurins conducts Artists of The Glenn Gould School Vocal Program and the Royal Conservatory Orchestra in George Frideric Handel’s Alcina.
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