SCRUTINY | A Fiery Finish to the Toronto Symphony Orchestra Season
By Joseph So on June 25, 2017
A superb cast of soloists makes a meal out of Carmina Burana as the TSO sends off its 2017–18 season.
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By Joseph So on June 25, 2017
A superb cast of soloists makes a meal out of Carmina Burana as the TSO sends off its 2017–18 season.
(Continue reading)By Paul E. Robinson on June 20, 2017
How American Lou Harrison synthesized Asian percussion instruments and minimalism into his music in the middle of the 20th century.
(Continue reading)By Joseph So on June 15, 2017
Toronto Symphony’s Seven Deadly Sins has unexpected contemporary resonances with Canadian mezzo Wallis Giunta.
(Continue reading)By Paul E. Robinson on June 13, 2017
Andris Nelsons take on Brahms' symphonies is impressively nuanced, but this over-attention to details comes perilously close to choking the life out of these masterworks.
(Continue reading)By Joseph So on June 12, 2017
Opera By Request Celebrates Tenth Anniversary with Der Rosenkavalier.
(Continue reading)By Sara Schabas on June 12, 2017
It is no secret there is a crisis surrounding gender balance in classical music composition. But in Toronto’s Heliconian Hall Saturday night, the scales were tipped, at least temporarily.
(Continue reading)By Joseph So on June 10, 2017
Show One Productions hits a musical home run with the return of the Russian violinist-conductor Vladimir Spivakov and his Moscow Virtuosi.
(Continue reading)By Stephan Bonfield on June 8, 2017
Each of us has known trauma in our many relationships with others. But it takes a John Neumeier to show exactly what that looks like and the brilliance of the National Ballet to perform it.
(Continue reading)By Paul E. Robinson on June 7, 2017
For many Canadian music-lovers, clarinettist James Campbell will be the main attraction on this new Naxos CD.
(Continue reading)By Arthur Kaptainis on June 4, 2017
"Brass were hearty, strings full of fire." Sir Andrew Davis makes a superior performance out of William Walton’s Belshazzar’s Feast at Roy Thomson Hall.
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