The tumultuous and traumatic history of both the Jewish Diaspora and the history of the Czech Republic have always come together in the profoundly tragic and...
Through the millennia prophets, mystics, poets, painters and musicians have heard a voice in the silence of the heart, which is, of course the soul. In...
Daniel Santiago has the rare distinction of being popular with audiences and critics and he comes from a long and deep tradition of Brasilian guitarists. Over...
The second edition of André Pirro’s 1907 classic, L’Esthétique de Jean-Sébastien Bach – The Aesthetic of Johann Sebastian Bach – translated by Joe Armstrong and first...
“Don’t only practice your art, But force your way into its secrets For it and knowledge can raise men to The Divine.” Ludwig van Beethoven The...
Tangi Ropars is one of three Moskittos who you won’t be able to make go away, much less swat. He comes from hardy stock and he’s...
April 7, 2018 – Koerner Hall, The Royal Conservatory – Toronto When you have Maestro Hilario Durán involved in a project you can be assured of...
April 7, 2018 – Koerner Hall, The Royal Conservatory – Toronto What do you think of when you think of a musical Toronto sound? For me...
In a world where many drummers and percussionists – indeed many musicians – are scrambling to catch up with the complex of rhythmic intonations, undulations and...
If you are an ethnomusicologist on a quest to study a particular style of music you deep-dive. But every deep-dive demands that you must stay down...
Don Cherry was, arguably, the first musician to use the term “world-music” to describe the music he was playing in the 1960’s. By that time Mr....
It is important to acknowledge the genius of Tcha Limberger in the context of his being a musical – perhaps, an all-around – polymath and here...
There can be no doubt that Antonio Carlos Jobim is one of the most important cultural figures in Brasil, an icon even among other Brasilian national...
The poem, All Rivers at Once written by Rumi, a 13th-century Persian poet, is the inspiration for the performance of the Israeli-Iranian Musical Initiative at Toronto’s...
It is one of those true travesties that an artist such as David Broza should still inhabit the fringes of music. While it’s also true that...
As long as musicians such as Keith Jarrett play and record Johann Sebastian Bach’s most frequently performed keyboard (harpsichord) works on the harpsichord there will probably...
Two years ago I saw Barbara Hannigan perform György Ligeti’s Mystères du Macabre dressed in a schoolgirl’s kilt, chewing bubblegum. The orchestra was Sinfónica de Londres,...
North American listeners have been introduced to the music of the British-born multi-instrumentalist, writer and vocalist, Joanna Wallfisch. She has regaled her audiences from New York...
On the 27th of October, 2017 Canadian lovers of music were again given the opportunity to sit and listen to the legendary Chilean nueva canción ensemble,...
Putumayo World Music is a New York-based label that has few peers anywhere in the world of music. It single-handedly introduces listeners to music from every...
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...
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...
Mozart Sonatas K.282, K.283, K.310, K.331, K332, K545 & K576 If classical radio stations [in Toronto, at any rate] are...
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...