Iván Fischer: A Visionary in Budapest
The Budapest Festival Orchestra (BFO) is an anomaly when it comes to the other elite ensembles that share its top-10 world ranking. The Vienna Philharmonic…
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Orchestre Métropolitain Announces 2025–2026 Season
Montreal, April 15, 2025 – For its next season, the Orchestre Métropolitain and its artistic director Yannick Nézet-Séguin take us into the infinite universe of…
The Royal Conservatory of Music announces preview of 2025/26 season
30 CONCERTS ANNOUNCED FOR THE 2025-26 SEASON Signature Fundraising Event Superstar soprano Renée Fleming presents Voice of Nature: the Anthropocene Recital featuring the Royal Conservatory…
Lebrecht Weekly | The More Satisfying Mahler Seventh on Record
The seventh was the least understood of Mahler’s symphonies and the last to get recorded. Bruno Walter, Mahler’s closest apostle, never performed it. Otto Klemperer,…
Lebrecht Weekly | Admirable Recording of Mahler Pioneers
The death of composer Alexander Goehr last August reminded obituarists of the vital contributions his refugee father Walter Goehr had made to insular British culture.…
Concert Review | TSO Concludes the Season with Mahler’s Third Symphony
The Toronto Symphony Orchestra (TSO) ended its 2023-2024 season in grand style with a glorious performance of Mahler’s Symphony No. 3.
Concert Review | Rafael Payare Conducts MSO in Vigorous Mahler Seventh Symphony
On Jan. 16, the Montreal Symphony Orchestra delivered a sumptuous performance of Szymanowsky’s Violin Concerto n.1 op.35 and Mahler’s Symphony n7 in E minor.
Lebrecht Weekly | Album of the Year (2023)
Album of the Year? There’s quite a few, from Vikingur Olaffson’s Goldberg Variations to Yuja Wang’s Rachmaninov concertos, to Semyon Bychkov Resurrection Symphony.
Concert Review | David Robertson Makes Toronto Symphony Debut in Berg and Mahler
Replacing Michael Tilson Thomas this week was American conductor David Robertson, who made his Toronto Symphony Orchestra debut.
‘A Single Will’: Leonard Bernstein, the Conductor
Leonard Bernstein steps off his podium and walks away from an orchestra in the throes of Brahms’s First Symphony. The musicians are now missing a conductor, but they don’t miss a single beat.
