Author Archives: Stanley Fefferman

Stanley Fefferman reviews Opera Atelier’s Glorious Essential Mozart: The Magic Flute

Opera Atelier is a brand I trust. I know The Magic Flute will not be produced as The Manga Flute, minus the Masonic element, with Prince Tamino as a Tokyo-based finance whiz and raccoons for the Three Spirits (West Edge … Continue reading

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Stanley Fefferman reviews The Tokyo String Quartet’s “Farewell Tour” in Toronto

More than 40 years ago, violist Kazuhide Isomura got together with three other Japanese students at the Juiliard School of Music in Manhattan and formed The Tokyo String Quartet. After touring the globe for upward of 4000 performances, more than … Continue reading

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Stanley Fefferman reviews David Occhipinti’s cd CAMERA

David Occhipinti. CAMERA. Occdav Music. I’ve watched David Occhipinti play his guitar. It’s like all he wants to do is get into that fingerboard and find new combinations. The music he wrote for Camera is like that, but beyond the … Continue reading

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Stanley Fefferman reviews Kye Marshall’s CD, PENCIL BLUES

Kye Marshall Jazz Quartet. PENCIL BLUES. Zephyr/Westwind Productions. I listened to this album on a blustery spring walk along Toronto Lakeshore’s royal route from Marina del Rey past Palace Pier to Palais Royal. Comfortable music, with a few innovations like Marshall … Continue reading

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Stanley Fefferman reviews The Tippett Quartet’s Canadian Debut at Music in the Afternoon

In the first movement of Michael Tippett’s Fifth Quartet, there is a succession of dynamic rippling lines that echoed the cadence of a line in T.S. Eliot’s Burnt Norton: “Quick, said the bird, find them, find them…” This “singing” theme … Continue reading

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Stanley Fefferman reviews Yoko Hirota’s CD: VOCES BOREALES

Voces Boreales. Yoko Hirota, Piano. Centrediscs. About a year ago, I had the pleasure of attending Yoko Hirota’s Small is Beautiful piano solo recital which included all five works by Canadian composers that she has recorded here for Centrediscs. I … Continue reading

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Stanley Fefferman reviews the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra CD: Philip Glass Symphony No. 3

Philip Glass. Symphony No. 3, The Hours, OMM, Harmonia Mundi, 2013. Philip Glass has his own record label, Orange Mountain Music, dedicated to archiving all the recordings the composer has made over the last 30 years and counting. The label’s … Continue reading

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Stanley Fefferman reviews 3 CDs by solo pianist MAURO BERTOLI

Mauro Bertoli, the Italian pianist now resident in Ottawa, sat down in a studio for a few days and recorded three CD’s of solo piano music, mostly Schumann and Liszt, with glances back to Scarlatti and Mozart, and to more … Continue reading

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