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Welcome to La Scena Musicale’s weekly Highlights, a roundup of classical music information from Canada and past. We’ve been maintaining with Koerner Corridor and TSO performances via a sequence of live performance opinions written by our gifted reporters. Carnegie Corridor can also be beginning a brand new streaming service, and the China Worldwide Music Competitors has introduced its prize winners.
La Scena Musicale Critiques Toronto Live shows
The TSO’s remembrance present, led by conductor Sir Andrew Davis, did a wonderful job at speaking loss via music, says reviewer Andrea Rush.
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Django Pageant Allstars, a jazz group devoted to Romani-French guitarist Django Reinhardt, impressed the group at Koerner Corridor with many unique “gypsy jazz,” says reviewer Paul Robinson.
Additionally at Koerner Corridor performing for Paul Robinson had been the Danish String Quartet – might they take up the torch from the just lately disbanded Emerson String Quartet? – and András Schiff – do his performances maintain up after so a few years?
András Schiff at Koerner Corridor (Photograph courtesy of the Royal Conservatory/Korner Corridor; Lisa Sakulensky)
Current and Upcoming Reveals
From Nov. 17 to 19, Vancouver Opera and re:Naissance Opera will play the world première of the opera Sanctuary & Storm (Stir).
Additionally this weekend, Chutzpah! Pageant will current I Have My Mom’s Eyes: A Holocaust Memoir Throughout Generations, a musical theatre manufacturing composed by Rita Ueda (Stir).
On Dec. 1, Vancouver Bach Choir will carry out (Stir) the Pulitzer Prize-winning choir piece composed by David Lang, The Little Match Woman Ardour. Vancouver Bach Household of Choirs can even host a live performance on Dec. 3 (Stir) that includes 400 simultaneous voices.
Debuts
Photograph: Courtesy of Carnegie Corridor
Carnegie Corridor is launching a brand new streaming platform (Ludwig Van), Carnegie Corridor+, as an $8 add-on for Amazon Prime.
“The Queen of Carthage” documentary, produced by Early Music Vancouver and re:Naissance Opera, premièred in a web based format on Nov. 16 (Opera Wire). It’s a multidisciplinary retelling of the story of Dido that mixes “opera and Baroque music with up to date track, dance, and projected photographs.”
American soprano Erin Morley made her Royal Opera Home debut singing Gilda of their present manufacturing of Rigoletto.
Recordings
Quatuor Molinari’s newest ATMA Classique recording, Philip Glass – Full String Quartets vol. 2, will probably be launched Nov. 24.
Maria Callas, whose centenary we coated with options in our Nov/Dec problem, is being celebrated with the restoration and colorization of her 1958 Paris gala efficiency.
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Pianist Christopher Glynn, baritone Roderick Williams, and soprano Rowan Pierce have recorded the fourth quantity of Schubert in English for Signum Classics. The report label can also be releasing Wonderland, a set of myth- and magic-based works commissioned by The King’s Singers.
Tower Data has launched a 2023 vinyl urgent of The Beatles’s The Pink Album, which incorporates new mixes, a few of George Harris’s earliest songs, and a jacket word by journalist and creator John Harris. They’re additionally promoting a 2023 vinyl urgent of The Blue Album.
Awards, Appointments, and Competitions
US-based violinist Joshua Brown has received the China Worldwide Music Competitors (The Voilin Channel), also referred to as the World Music Training League Violin Competitors. He’ll take house a $100,000 USD prize. US-based Ellie Choi received second prize, valued at $65,000 USD, and Chaowen Luo, from China, received third prize and $30,000 USD.
Cellist Leland Ko has received the 2023 OSM Competitors’s Barbara Bronfman Prize ($20,000), together with a residency on the Chapelle Musicale Reine Élisabeth de Belgique. Justin Saulnier was awarded second place, whereas Emad Zolfaghari got here in third.
Leland Ko on stage through the cello auditions. (Photograph by Donna Santos)
Native Information
Montreal Jazz Pageant has introduced the lineup for its forty fourth season, which is able to happen June and July 2024. Featured artists embrace Icelandic singer-songwriter Laufey, Inuk musician Elisapie, and London jazz band Ailing Thought-about. Tickets are on sale as of Nov. 17.
Spotify will now not pay royalties for songs with lower than 1,000 performs, in line with Music Enterprise Worldwide.
The radio channel for the Metropolitan Opera, as soon as supplied on Sirius XM radio stations, will now be unique to the app (Opera Wire). Over 350 individuals have signed a petition urging the corporate to reverse this choice.
The corporate Musicianly has opened a Kickstarter for FretboardGPS, a brand new challenge that guarantees to offer a dynamic record of guitar chord choices for gamers utilizing unfamiliar tunings.
Obituary
Lutz Rath (Slipped Disc), Washington Sq. Music Pageant’s creative director, has died at 78.
Ensemble intercontemporain member and Parrenin Quartet second violinist Jacques Ghestem (Slipped Disc) has handed away.
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