All Entries in the "Concert Reviews" Category
Review: KW Symphony with Tania Miller
In today’s Record
Baroque and early Classical music, that is to say music composed between roughly 1600-1800, offers many rewards to those that are willing to take the time to really get to know the repertoire. For those of us that aren’t able to devote a significant part of our lives to studying the 17th [...]
Review: Nota Bene Period Orchestra
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A concert Friday night by the Nota Bene Period Orchestra was proof that the witching hour comes early on Hallowe’en and is indiscriminate in its manifestation. By 7:45pm, two men in full 18th century livery were seated in the front row. By 8, cellist Felix Deak’s transmutation into The Incredible Hulk had already [...]
Review: Aviv Quartet Shostakovich Cycle
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On the whole, Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) did not write pretty music. Tormented, terrifying, subversive and embittered, most definitely, but rarely ever pretty. His pieces are not devoid of beauty, it’s just that you have to wade through a lot of darkness to find it. Shostakovich is well known for his sarcasm and [...]
Review: Penderecki String Quartet & Stéphan Sylvestre
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Usually most of the seats are occupied, but Wednesday night, The Music Room was packed nearly to the rafters. The Penderecki String Quartet, was giving a concert with young Canadian pianist Stéphan Sylvestre, a piano professor at the University of Western Ontario. Intimacy is one of the Music Room’s best features and the [...]
Review: Nota Bene Period Orchestra
In today’s Record
Although it’s difficult to imagine, given its now exalted position, there was once a time that the violin was regarded as an uncultured instrument suitable only for playing dance music at parties. It wasn’t until the mid-17th century that the violin really overtook the viol family as the solo instrument of choice [...]
Review: Guy Few, Nadina Mackie Jackson @ The Elora Festival
Duo Affinité
19th July, 2008
St John’s Anglican Church, Elora
If a bassoon and trumpet recital didn’t qualify as my daily dose of bizzarerie, getting stuck behind a 1985 Lincoln limousine weaving down a country road at 65kph certainly did. The dodgy driving meant I had to leg it to the church but thankfully I only missed [...]
Review: DaCapo Chamber Choir
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You can count on two things with the DaCapo Chamber Choir: an expertly controlled English cathedral choir sound and thoughtful programming that embraces abstraction while steering well clear of pretension. Saturday’s concert at St John The Evangelist, Kitchener was yet another example of how this choir is getting it right.
Entitled Reaching [...]
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