The minor revolt that brought back opera seria, reviving and recalling epic Greek drama, its incumbent sense of theatre—complete with the finery of its costumes, stage...
The Montreal-based flutist, Sylvain Leroux is a peripatetic traveller. When he is not in Montreal, or Chicago, or New York, he might be in Toronto or...
I waited for his concert with bated breath. The tickets were purchased about a year ago. Then Kuwait was invaded by Iraq and suddenly it was...
The Europeans have almost always been adventurous first. After all, it was the Europeans who sailed to the New World and not the other way around....
Hanns Eisler was the Austrian-born composer who is better known as the composer of the national anthem of the German Democratic Republic (erstwhile East Germany), and...
When a musician goes all the way to Dakar, Senegal to make a record that probably means many sleepless nights after many long recording sessions; probably...
The absolutely sensuously voiced Lilian Raquel has brought forth another recording: Com Todas as Cores, which is exquisitely voiced and magnificently orchestrated by her trusty partner,...
Visions of João Gilberto arise when listening to Paulinho Garcia’s remarkable recording, Beautiful Love. But there is an elemental difference. Mr. Gilberto sang with a tendency...
In most ancient societies, it was—and still is—believed that all music is the sound of the cosmos; the very dust that made up space, singing in...
The Malian sensation Fatoumata Diawara is fast making her name around the world. The move to France first got her recognised and now she is one...
Amanda Martinez has been concentrating on her own music for some time since she made way for Laura Fernandez to take her Saturday afternoon spot on...
Every time guitarist and vocalist Badi Assad makes a record, she re-invents herself. The album, Between Love and Luck is no exception. But until now, Ms....
It is “Bombay” to artists from as far removed as London is from New York unabashedly referred to as such by an artist in the work...
The magic of these works composed, for sure, for lute-harpsichord by Johann Sebastian Bach supersedes all of the controversy and fallacious theory that Bach indeed wrote...
Whether he came to the accordion by way of the forró—xôte and Baião—or by way of the gaucho bands that he often plays in, Toninho Ferragutti...
Paula Santoro has been recording under her own name since 1996. But she has not come to the attention of listeners outside Brasil. Her albums have...
At one time, for a rather long period of time, most Christmas music consisted first of music that was liturgical. Although the earliest known Christmas music...
Gordon Grdina is a Vancouver-based oud, bouzouki and guitar player of unbridled musical ingenuity. Few musicians—especially guitarists and oud players—have a vision as broad and seemingly...
It seems almost trite to talk of where cultures collide, when it comes to the music of Brian O’Neill, or Mr. Ho—as he likes to sometimes...
Ravel: Kaddisch; Satyat-Nova: Four Songs (Arr. Kradjian); Kradjian: Trobairitz Ysabella; Ravel: Five Greek Songs; Tripatos. Isabel Bayrakdarian—soprano; Manitoba Chamber Orchestra; Anne Manson—conductor In his seminal book...
