Tag Archives: Mozart

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

Posted on April 30, 2012 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

Posted on April 29, 2012 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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Music In the Afternoon with The Cecilia String Quartet by Stanley Fefferman

Posted on March 29, 2012 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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Opera Atelier: La Clemenza Di Tito reviewed by Stanley Fefferman

Posted on April 23, 2011 by Stanley Fefferman

Friday, April 22, 2011. The Elgin Theatre, Toronto. “Nature never set forth the earth in so rich tapestry as divers poets have done; her world is brazen, the poets only deliver a golden.”  Sir Philip Sidney If you found out … Continue reading →

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