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LUMINATO FESTIVAL 2013 June 14 – 23, 2013
From June 14 – 23, 2013 there will be Luminato festivities day and night at venues all over Toronto, many of them free. Everything you need to know you can find right HERE. Here are some highlights. –The Life and … Continue reading
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Conductor James Gafigan and Soprano Measha Brueggergosman bring the TSO Audience to its Feet. A review by Stanley Fefferman
As the poets of old have said, art is alchemy: it takes the events of our life which are brass and transmutes them to gold. It is rare when this transformation happens in every item on a concert program, but … Continue reading
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Heather Schmidt. ICICLES OF FIRE. CD review by Stanley Fefferman.
Heather Schmidt. ICICLES OF FIRE. Centrediscs. 2013. This CD has Heather Schmidt’s playing piano on three of the compositions she composed for cellist Shauna Rolston between 2003-07. Ms. Schmidt’s music has programmatic intent. To give you an idea of how … Continue reading
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Duo Concertante. Beethoven: Complete Sonatas for Violin and Piano reviewed by Stanley Fefferman
Duo Concertante. Beethoven: Complete Sonatas for Violin and Piano. Marquis Classics. Duo Concertante is Nancy Dahn and Timothy Steeves, a married couple of performers in whose lives these Sonatas have for many years been a constant joy. Their shared intimacy … Continue reading
Haydn Piano Concertos. Marc-André Hamelin/Bernard Labadie. CD review by Stanley Fefferman
Joseph Haydn. Piano Concertos Nos 3, 4 & 11. Marc-André Hamelin (piano), Les Violons du Roy, Bernard Labadie (conductor). Hyperion, Marc-André Hamelin’s latest piano album, his fifty-somethingth for Hyperion, is the second stage in his journey through Haydn’s keyboard music. … Continue reading
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Stanley Fefferman reviews cd: Bach – Flute Sonatas. Andrea Oliva & Angela Hewitt
Bach – Flute Sonatas. Andrea Oliva; Angela Hewitt. Hyperion CDA67897 Bach’s Flute Sonatas are new to Angela Hewitt, and to get to know them she has stepped back from her spot as one of the world’s great Bach soloists and … Continue reading
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