It seems as though every age has its own Kurt Weill (1900–1950). Into the 1920s German cabaret? We have a Weill for that. Broadway more your style? We have a Kurt Weill for that. Hollywood? Art song? Opera? Yes, for

Most people may think, as they enter their ninth decade on this earth, that it is time to take a richly-deserved rest – but Sir John Rutter is not most people. Sir John (a recent knighthood last year for his

For Franco-Hungarian pianist Suzana Bartal, her new album, Grieg & Saint-Saëns: Piano Concertos, marks an important milestone in her artistic life. Released by Channel Classics, the recording pairs Edvard Grieg’s Piano Concerto in A minor with Camille Saint-Saëns’s Piano Concerto No. 2 in G

Some musicians live comfortably within the boundaries of the modern concert grand. Others, like Lebanese-born pianist and scholar Ziad Kreidy, spend their careers questioning those boundaries, searching instead for the forgotten voices of the past and the hidden colours of

An innovative program upcoming at the Hong Kong Philharmonic caught our interest. Conductor Robert Moody will be leading the Hong Kong Philharmonic in a program featuring the voice of Renée Fleming. The evening is centred on Fleming’s 2023 Grammy Award–winning

Composer, improviser, and saxophonist Joane Hétu has been a vital figure in Quebec’s experimental music scene since the 1980s. Her latest album, Elle a son mot à dire (She Has Her Say), released with Ensemble SuperMusique, brings together compositions written between 2001 and 2023

Korean pianist and educator Hyeji Seo makes a compelling debut with The Melodies from East Asia, an album blending six modern compositions from Japanese, Taiwanese, and Korean composers. The album includes five solo piano pieces and one oboe-piano duet, showcasing a diverse

In the leadership of a program, there’s conducting and there’s directing. We tend to use the two terms interchangeably in reference to the person standing up at the front of an ensemble, but in this case, they are two different