Not long ago – despite the advent of the Renaissance of African American composers of music in the classical realm – the only two ‘new’ composers...
First there was life; then death and then life again. Perhaps that’s because human have a natural tendency to aspire to what is beyond the bright...
There has been a plethora of re-issued recordings in the past few years, but none quite like this on – Natureza by Joyce Moreno with Mauricio...
The brilliant young guitarist Plínio Fernandes proves once again [although he probably did not set out to do so] that well before Johann Sebastian Bach –...
Mozart Sonatas K.282, K.283, K.310, K.331, K332, K545 & K576 If classical radio stations [in Toronto, at any rate] are “to be believed” there would appear...
This is a spectacularly original album Jaku Mumor – an ethnomusicologist’s delight – is a mystical album of music with repertoire that comes from the deepest...
If a record label – or imprint – were to be considered an “unfillable” library in the sense that the great Argentinean writer Jorge Luis Borges...
A string gently caressed, somewhere between pizzicato and a curved legato seemingly played with soft flesh; a chord strummed on a set of strings, a pedal...
Ana-Marija Markovina: Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy – Complete Works for Piano [Solo] Few composers – artistic geniuses at that – have had their entire careers disparaged, their...
John Cage The Complete Etudes Australes – Grete Sultan: pf Guru to some, charlatan to others, John Cage constantly challenged the very idea of music, using randomness as a...
Even with a first spin of this recording Legado one wonders who but Berta Rojas could have played this music that honours legendary women guitarists Ida...
Thanks to the existential – and mind-numbing – angst of the world’s worst health catastrophe in 100 years Music in the Barns has had to live...
The story of Music in the Barns is like a story worthy of the pen of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson better known as Lewis Carroll. “Why,” you...
Upper Canada Choristers Present the Fauré Requiem with Orchestra and Baritone Bradley ChristensenConcert opens with Mikola Lysenko’s Prayer for Ukraine The Upper Canada Choristers, Cantemos Latin...
World Music and Dance [WOMAD], the UK’s top global music+dance festival is back this year at Charlton Park from July 28th to 31st. Audiences can expect...
In an ideal world we would have no cause to refer to Solomiya Ivakhiv as a “Ukrainian” violinist and pedagogue, which she is. But she is...
There appear to be no hard borders that separate styles, dialects and – it now seems even unique national traditions and cultural topographies – in music...
The lack of recognition for the work of Grazyna Bacewicz [1909-1969] – even among music’s cognoscenti – is something of mystery. The Polish violinist and composer,...
This recording – Mapou, featuring the Haitian-Swedish-Swedish-Haitian brass, woodwind and percussion orchestra of Sten Källman and Sanba Zao – is one of the most electrifying recordings...
“Nationalism” has a rather bad connotation today, thanks to the rise of the far-right. In music, though – especially in classical music in the 18th and...
First there was life; then death and then life again. Perhaps that’s because human have a natural tendency to aspire...
If a record label – or imprint – were to be considered an “unfillable” library in the sense that the...
Ana-Marija Markovina: Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy – Complete Works for Piano [Solo] Few composers – artistic geniuses at that – have...
Not long ago – despite the advent of the Renaissance of African American composers of music in the classical realm...
There has been a plethora of re-issued recordings in the past few years, but none quite like this on –...
The brilliant young guitarist Plínio Fernandes proves once again [although he probably did not set out to do so] that...
Nella Rojas, or simply Nella, is a new voice hailing from the Venezuelan Island of Margarita Born in Venezuela, Nella...
Rail Band of the Train Station Hotel, Ambassadeurs of the Motel of Bamako, Ambassadeurs Internationaux, and lately, Les Ambassadeurs Internationaux: so many bands that...
His sugarcane-sweet melodies, pop-soul hooks and powerful guitar riffs, relinquish a conventional stereotype that exemplifies much of the Latin music...