There will always be something unique – something truly tasty to savour – about jazz in an orchestral context. The communal joy of humanity proverbially singing...
What constitutes interpretation of a musical composition? Surely every artist worthy of his [or her] name seeks to internalise the message of the music he [or...
After several highly celebrated recordings over the years, Luis Muñoz breaks fresh ground as a composer of breathtakingly lyrical music. On Glimmering Path, the drummer often...
The challenge of capturing – and painting with words – tone, colour, texture, and the subtlest sense of dynamics from pianissimo [mostly] to fortissimo [rarely] to...
There is no real ‘perfect time’ for a debut recording, especially when the debutant has long-since graduated in the proverbial, living, breathing university of musical life,...
On Friday April 12, 2024 Ladaniva performed for the first time in Canada at Toronto’s Meridian Arts Centre, George Weston Recital Hall. The show was attended...
What a marvellously unusual recording. The repertoire on Tamborilero by Valeria Matzner, a Montevideo-born Uruguayan now living in Canada echoes with the syncopated rippling thunder of...
You may not have heard much about pianist Darren Pickering and his ensemble Small Worlds outside Australasia, and that is a pity. The cinematic quality of...
The apogee of this magnificent disc, Subduing the Silence, by Ruiqi Wang is, unquestionably, the song cycle dedicated to Li QingZhao [1084-1155], the great Chinese poet...
If the last three albums did not convince you that her inward-looking evocations combined with her gorgeous simplicity of melodic line, makes Lynne Arriale not a...
