The music heard by the near-capacity crowd was first-rate, with Lang’s contributions being particularly fine. But the evening raised a question that didn’t get quite as satisfactory an answer.

Canada’s Honens International Piano Competition has announced the appointment of pianist Jon Kimura Parker as Artistic Director beginning January 2018.

Dvořák: Stabat mater, Op. 58 - Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra: "Beautiful and profound music-making that well deserves repeated hearings."

University of Toronto New Music Festival asks “where do we go from here?” The answer may surprise you.

Paul E. Robinson compares two Bruckner CD's with Yannick Nézet-Séguin and Stanislaw Skrowaczewski.

The history of opera is an ongoing pendulum swing that began with the dramatic simplicity of the text at the start of the 17th century in Italy, and gradually became more vocally and instrumentally embellished, then was confronted with a back-to-basics movement in the mid-18th century.

On Friday evening in Walter Hall, the spotlight was on Peter Togni. The Elmer Iseler Singers, under Lydia Adams, presented an entire program of music by the Halifax-based composer and broadcaster...

Sung unaccompanied, these songs tell their stories over multiple verses, each set with a certain amount of musical variation. The emphasis is on clearly expressing the text, underlining its emotional shifts in the music and, in most instances, using the voices as orchestral instruments.

The music of great pianist-composer Ferrucio Busoni (1866-1924) continues to elude the mainstream, even with passionately eloquent advocates like Marc-André Hamelin and German-born Wolf Harden, who has just released his eighth volume of solo piano music by the once renowned Italian for the Naxos label.

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