The guitar’s ancestors include the gittern, the vihuela, the four-course Renaissance guitar, and of course the baroque guitar, all of...
In many respects these last two recordings by Beth Levin – Hammerklavier Live and Phantasmata – may share an allusion to the famous Heiligenstadt Testament, albeit...
The days when pianist and pedagogue Orli Shaham “played” the proverbial younger sibling to her more famous brother, the celebrated violinist Gil Shaham are over. With...
Barbara Hannigan is at Koerner Hall at the The Royal Conservatory. She enters, stage left, gliding her way to centre-stage like a Gaelic sprite, stops and...
The Barbican Quartet – violinists Amarins Wierdsma and Kate Malony, violist Christoph Slenczka and cellist Yoanna Prodanova – who met at the Guildhall School of Music,...
More and more these days, devotees of Brasilian music are spoilt for choice when it comes to a succession of fine recordings of older masters [Chico...
In common parlance, the word “sublime” is an adjective meaning awe-inspiringly grand, excellent or impressive, like the best chocolate fudge sundae you have ever had. Perhaps,...
On the glorious repertoire of this celebração, Senzala e Favela, it isn’t the proverbial ghost of Banquo that graces an altogether festa para os ouvidos –...
Even if Sheila Chandra never sings another note again [and she probably never will], she has certainly achieved artistic supremacy, the like of which lesser mortals...
Having already produced six other recordings in the series Music in Exile, Toronto’s celebrated ARC Ensemble [Artists of The Royal Conservatory] helmed by its intrepid Artistic...
One-of-a-kind Collections from Keith Richards, Jonathan Demme and Millions More Currently at Risk. Anonymous donor gives One Million dollars towards finding a permanent home In a...
Not all the mythical tales of leprechauns and the ‘croc of gold at the end of the rainbow’ can disguise the often terrible, nearly 153-year guerilla...
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...
If a record label – or imprint – were to be considered an “unfillable” library in the sense that the great Argentinean writer Jorge Luis Borges...
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...
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...
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...
