CD Review | Stravinsky: Sankofa, The Soldier’s Tale Retold
Stravinsky: Sankofa, The Soldier’s Tale Retold & Histoire du soldat Suite Art of Time Ensemble; Andrew Burashko, musical director Leaf Music, 2026 Sankofa takes the…
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Art of Time Ensemble: The Soldier’s Tale For Today
Sankofa refers to a mythical bird prevalent in West African culture, usually portrayed with its feet pointing forward and its head leaning backwards. In the…
Review | 12 Ensemble grows a British-Canadian premiere
After their collaborative season at Wigmore Hall, string orchestra 12 Ensemble are going from strength to strength. What this string ensemble might lack in a…
Review | Kerson Leong Dazzles in Lopsided Les Violons du Roy Program
For Valentine’s Day, Les Violons du Roy presented a program full of pathos at Montreal’s Bourgie Hall. On the program were iconic excerpts from J.S…
Lebrecht Weekly | The Most Convincing Performance of Stravinsky’s Le Rossignol on Record
The English conductor Sir Eugene Goossens was stopped in March 1956 on arrival at Sydney Airport. He was found to be in possession of pornographic…
Concert Review | Mäkelä, Lim and The Orchestre de Paris in Montreal
The Maison Symphonique of Montréal was graced with prominent international talent: pianist Yunchan Lim and the Orchestre de Paris, led by Finnish guest conductor Klaus Mäkelä.
Concert Review | Toronto Symphony Orchestra presents Stravinsky’s Pulcinella
Based on last Saturday’s concert in Roy Thomson Hall, this next live concert recording of Stravinsky’s Pulcinella promises to be a winner.
Lebrecht Weekly | Stravinsky, Bartok, Martinu: Works for Violin and Orchestra (BIS)
German violinist Frank Peter Zimmerman realigns Stravinsky’s violin concerto in D wistfully as a late-romantic work, full of yearning for lost youth, homeland and confidence.
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 | Prokofiev, Tcherepnin: The Bark of Yearning (Avi-music)
Western orchestras take a binary view of the Russian 20th century. Rachmaninov, Stravinsky, Prokofiev and Shostakovich are good for business, the rest are box-office death.…
