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Yuri Bashmets’ Moscow Soloists and Mischa Maisky reviewed by Stanley Fefferman

May 3, 2012. Roy Thomson Hall, Toronto. Show One Productions presented The Moscow Soloists Chamber Orchestra with their founder, Yuri Bashmet, as conductor and viola soloist. Bashmet conducts with bare hands, frequently raising them open, palms up, and in towards … Continue reading

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Richard Goode @ Music Toronto reviewed by Stanley Fefferman

March 6, 2012, Jane Mallet Theatre, Toronto. Richard Goode chose three collections from Schumann, Chopin, and Brahms for his Toronto program. Short pieces make easy listening, and 26 of them offer the charm of variety. This survey of Romantic melodies promises … Continue reading

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Music in the Afternoon with Roger Chase and Michiko Otaki reviewed by Stanley Fefferman

February 24, 2012. Walter Hall, Toronto. This wonderful afternoon of music with Roger Chase and Michiko Otaki was much about the viola and about certain English Composers of the late-romantic period. I really like Frederick Delius’ Sonata No. 3. And … Continue reading

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Bartok’s The Miraculous Mandarin @ The TSO reviewed by Stanley Fefferman

Wednesday, January 25, 2012. Roy Thompson Hall, Toronto. You can get an insight into the contoversial flavour of Bartok’s The Miraculous Mandarin by merely looking over it’s performance history. Bartok wrote it as a stage pantomine score in 1919, just … Continue reading

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MARKUS GROH Piano Recital @ Music Toronto reviewed by Stanley Fefferman

Tuesday,September 20, 2011, Walter Hall, Toronto. Given that Markus Groh is justly celebrated by Gramophone for the “supreme control of his instrument and sensitivity regarding timbre and texture,” he still surprised me with magical effects in strongly chromatic passages.. Listening … Continue reading

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Mooredale Concerts Finale: Brahms & Kuerti reviewed by Stanley Fefferman

Saturday, April 30, 2011. Koerner Hall, Toronto. Anton Kuerti’s 2006 recording of the Brahms Concerto for Piano no 1 in D minor, Op. 15 for Analekta with  Joseph Rescigno conducting the  Grand Montreal Metropolitan Orchestra is ranked highly among world-class … Continue reading

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