Report | Cliburn Semi-Finals: Chance, Fate, or Merit
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 – Welcome to La Scena Musicale’s reviews of the semi- and final rounds of the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, one of…
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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…
Festival Classica announces the programming of its 15th edition!
Montréal, February 10, 2025 — Held over 24 days in the Longueuil urban agglomeration and also in Montréal, Festival Classica has since 2011 provided top-quality…
Lebrecht Weekly | Magdalena Kozena Offers a Vivid Recital Recording
The first we heard of Magdalena Kozena was a mid-1990s album of Bach arias, recorded when she was 22.
Highlights | François Dompierre Honoured in Concert, Apple Music Classical in Asia
Conservatoire de musique de Montréal will honour François Dompierre at its 80th century concert, TomoeArts is shutting down after 15 years of performances, and Apple Music Classical is now available in Asia.
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.
Concert Review | Les 9 Nocturne: Capturing the Enchanting Sounds of the Night
Les 9 presented a simultaneously captivating and ethereal concert experience in Koerner Hall on November 22nd.
CD Review | Waves: Music by Rameau, Ravel, and Alkan (Deutsche Grammophon, 2023)
Bruce Liu’s new album, Waves, opens with Rameau’s well-known Gavotte et six doubles, a stately French dance with variations, each of which explore and ornament the theme in a different and more dramatic way.
Highlights | Canadians Question Identity of Singer-Songwriter Buffy Sainte-Marie
The country is wondering about the identity of singer-songwriter and activist Buffy Sainte-Marie after a new CBC investigation that contradicts her decades-old claims to Indigenous heritage.
Lebrecht Weekly | Bruce Liu: Waves (Deutsche Grammophon)
The combination of Rameau, Alkan, and Ravel in Bruce Liu’s WAVES, on paper, looks wildly exciting. In performance, it is less so.
