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Andras Schiff’s Heroic Oddysey with Bach and Beethoven reviewed by Stanley Fefferman
November 3, 2013. Koerner Hall, Toronto. My benchmark performance for Bach’s Goldberg Variations is the 1981 recording in which Glenn Gould presents his “discovery of slowness.” Gould put it this way: “ With really contrapuntal textures, one does need a certain … Continue reading
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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Tagged Beethoven, Bernard Herrmann, Psycho, Sir Michael Tippett, Tippett String Quartet
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Mooredale Concerts Present the New Orford String Quartet: review by Stanley Fefferman
October 28, 2012. Walter Hall, Toronto. The New Orford String Quartet goes boldly. They chose a program of three works that open by disturbing the peace. Haydn’s Quartet in D Major, Op. 20. No. 4 (1772) with Andrew Wan in … Continue reading
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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Tagged Beethoven, Haydn, Mozart, period instruments, string quartet
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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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Tagged Aram Katchaturian, Beethoven, Francesca da Rimini, Itzhak Perlman, Peter Oundjian, Tchaikovsky
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Music In the Afternoon with The Cecilia String Quartet by Stanley Fefferman
March 29, 2012. Walter Hall, Toronto. The Cecilia String Quartet’s account of Shostakovich’s Seventh Quartet, Op.108 was almost unbearably exciting. It begins with Min-Jeong Koh, newly in the first chair, playing the delicate theme, solo, in a nervous, wispy voice. … Continue reading
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Tagged Beethoven, Caitlin Boyle, Cecilia String Quartet, Min-Jeong Koh, Mozart, Nematallah, Puccini, Rachel Desoer, Sokolovic, string quartet
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Anton Kuerti plays Beethoven’s Emperor” Concerto @ TSO reviewed by Stanley Fefferman
Thursday, February 2, 2012. Roy Thomson Hall, Toronto. Good old Günther Herbig! The TSO’S Conductor Emeritus (1988-94) knows how to get his old orchestra around the acoustic limitations of this … Continue reading
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Tagged Anton Kuerti, Beethoven, Gunther Herbig, Joaquin Valedpeñas, Shotakovitch, Toronto Symphony Orchestra
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St. Lawrence Quartet @ Music Toronto reviewed by Stanley Fefferman
Thursday, December 1, 2011. Jane Mallett Theatre, Toronto. This is a newsworthy concert. The foremost item is the first Toronto performance of a new work, Kohelet, by Argentinian composer Osvaldo Golijov, the second quartet that he has written specifically for … Continue reading
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Tagged Beethoven, Golijov, Kohelet, Mark Fewer, Nuttal, Schubert, St.Lawrence String Quartet
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