Monthly Archives: April 2012

Windermere String Quartet’s Latest on Period Instruments reviewed by Stanley Fefferman

Windemere String Quartet (on period instruments): The Golden Age of String Quartets. Pipistrelle Music, 2012. I listened to this very focused disc with increasing interest.  Persuasive care went into the Windermere’s choice and preparation of classical period quartets they accord … Continue reading

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Itzhak Perlman Music Program Debut @ Koerner Hall reviewed by Stanley Fefferman

April 29, 2012. Koerner Hall, Toronto. About this time of year, 225 years ago, when he composed the Viola Quintet in G Minor, K. 516, Mozart said in a letter that he often felt like dying, but that no one … Continue reading

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Less than Three <3 : Ori Dagan's second CD reviewed by Stanley Fefferman

Ori Dagan’s Less than Three <3, ScatCat Records, features the young crooner’s talents as vocalist, scat-singer, composer and arranger. The setlist includes three originals, two in Hebrew, one in English (“Googleable”) with pianist Mark Kieswetter; covers of tunes associated with … Continue reading

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“Small is Beautiful”: Yoko Hirota’s New Music Concerts recital at Gallery 345 reviewed by Stanley Fefferman

April 27, 2012. Gallery 345, Toronto. Yoko Hirota enjoys the freedom of  not letting her right hand know what her left hand is doing. She shared her delight  by playing the opening bars of Sungods (2007) by Brian Current, her … Continue reading

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Itzhak Perlman and the TSO’s Beethoven Violin Concerto reviewed by Stanley Fefferman

April 25, 2012. Roy Thomson Hall, Toronto An explosion of brass in waltz-time opened the evening into a Russian grand ballroom, the festive  atmosphere darkened by insidious currents of paranoia. Selections from Aram Khachaturian’s Suite from Masquerade and Spartacus (1944) … Continue reading

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Ahmad Jamal BLUE MOON. CD review by Stanley Fefferman

Ahmad Jamal. BLUE MOON. JazzVillage. His arrangements are about rhythm. His melodies move as rhythms, reveal themselves by the ways he shows they can move. Out of the ‘who’ of the melody we learn to know the rhythmic ‘what’. The … Continue reading

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Gil Shaham’s Solo Bach Recital at Koerner Hall reviewed by Stanley Fefferman

April 21, Koerner Hall, Toronto. Gil Shaham crosses to centre-stage like he’s on a short green light, and the instant he gets there he begins to play. As expected, he takes the Preludio of Bach’s cheery Partita No. 3 in … Continue reading

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Renée Fleming with Hartmut Holl in Recital reviewed by Stanley Fefferman

April 20, 2012. Roy Thomson Hall, Toronto. Renée Fleming, darkly gowned, transported us back 100 years to share her music of the Viennese night. The first half of Ms. Fleming’s program explores sad songs by three related early 20th Century … Continue reading

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