Monthly Archives: April 2013

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

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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

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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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