Like Horowitz before him, Murray Perahia has found a fine and final home with Deutsche Grammophon.

The onset of daylight savings time is usually a bit disorienting but it has been particularly peculiar since 2007, when it was moved to the second Sunday in March . In Toronto this means a misfit between late afternoon and early evening light that evokes a sense of summer (or used to) occurring when the weather remains frigid. One might call this climactic dissonance...

Great artists have obsessive personalities, and pianist Jon Kimura Parker is no exception. His weakness? The angular, visceral ballet scores of Igor Stravinsky. And what better time than the spring The Rite of Spring turns 100 to show off Parker’s (literal) handiwork in impersonating a symphony orchestra.

After burning the midnight oil at CMIM 2018 last evening, Ludwig Van weighs in on the jury panel’s 12 choices to move on to the semifinals.

Seán Cullen replaces Don McKellar from the original cast but otherwise the show should be much as it was in March, 2011, when I reviewed its premiere.

Canadian Opera Company Ensemble Artists Aviva Fortunata (soprano) and Iain MacNeil (bass-baritone) make a memorable farewell at COC Vocal Series.

Kolesnikov has poise and polish, but there’s a lyricism to his playing that makes it stand out from the exceptionally high baseline of the average 21st century would-be professional pianist.

The 14 musicians and their conductor filled the club with the sounds of the classical era as they offered up a late-18th century programme featuring the music of Giovanni Paisiello, Antonio Salieri, Mozart and Joseph Haydn.

"A fabulous pianist, incapable of touching an ugly note, Wosner interleaves miniatures of Schubert with matching — at times, surprising — snips by Dvorak, Chopin, Liszt, Beethoven, Gershwin and Charles Ives," say Norman Lebrecht.

Yesterday, I was on the fifth or sixth listen of Bespoken plays Nick Storring & Daniel Brandes, released a couple of months ago by Halifax label Divorce records, when my careless setup caused iTunes to insert the Allemande from a Handel keyboard suite into the mix.