Ensemble Caprice - Matthias Maute

Ensemble Caprice – Bach Cantatas

...rodigious sacred cantatas continue! The great master’s music triumphantly resounds in an abundance of sumptuous choruses, an infinite variety of instrumental colours and unsurpassed melodic depth. Artists Ensemble Caprice Since it was founded by flautist Matthias Maute three decades ago, Ensemble Caprice has made its mark as one of the most sought-after ensembles on the classical music scene. Caprice has gained a solid reputation for its innovativ...
Valer Sabadus

Valer Sabadus & Pallade Musica

...began his vocal training at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Munich under Prof. Gabriele Fuchs at the age of 17, and graduated in 2013 with distinction as a member of the Bayerische Theaterakademie August Everding, specialising in Musical Theatre. His first appearance at the Handel Festival in Halle was in the title role of Rinaldo with the Lautten Compagney in 2011. Other engagements have taken him to the opera house in Cologne in the titl...

Leong & Tétreault: Shimmering Strings

...ntricately woven construction, the piece charms and stuns, time and again. Under the baton of German conductor Erina Yashima, Dvořák’s luminously orchestrated Symphony No. 5 reveals the mature side of the composer, better known for his New World Symphony. With the first movement’s captivating melodies and the last movement’s poignant drama, it has an impact on everyone who hears it. Though she is only in her early forties, American composer and vi...
Martin Helmchen

Martin Helmchen performs Bach at Salle Pierre-Mercure

...n’s complete piano concertos with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin under Andrew Manze, released by Alpha Classics. In the 2021/22 season Martin Helmchen is Artist-in-Residence with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo. From early on in his career Helmchen has performed with the world’s most renowned orchestras such as the Berlin and Vienna Philharmonic Orchestras, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, City of Birmin...
STRADIVARIUS BaROCK – Alexandre Da Costa

STRADIVARIUS BaROCK – Alexandre Da Costa at Théâtre Maisonneuve

...the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse and the Singapore Symphony, under conductors such as Philippe Jordan, Tugan Sokhiev, Günter Herbig and Lorin Maazel. He currently holds the position of Artistic Director of the Laurentians International Festival of Canada and Artistic Director at Acacia Classics Productions. Alexandre Da Costa plays the “Deveault” Stradivarius of 1701 loaned by his friends Guy and Maryse Deveault. Artists joining Alex...
Marc Djokic

The Four Seasons – March 30 to April 13, 2021

...an Italian delicacy, Vivaldi’s Concerto Grosso in D minor, op. 3, no. 11, under the baton of Xavier Brossard-Ménard, the OCM’s current assistant conductor. Maestro Boris Brott will then take to the podium to lead two songs by Indigenous Canadian composers: Barbara Croall’s Zasakwaa (There is a Heavy Frost) for mezzo-soprano and solo flute, and Tomson Highway’s Some Say a Rose, arranged by François Vallières. Both pieces will feature the sumptuous...
Met Opera

Wagner Week at the Met – October 5-12, 2020 Online

.... From April 8, 1989. The gorgeous and evocative Otto Schenk/Günther Schneider-Siemssen production continues with this second opera in Wagner’s Ring cycle. Hildegard Behrens brings deep empathy to Brünnhilde, the favorite daughter of the god Wotan (James Morris) who nevertheless defies him. Morris’s portrayal of Wotan is deservedly legendary, as is Christa Ludwig, as Fricka. Jessye Norman and Gary Lakes are Sieglinde and Siegmund, and Kurt Moll is...
Rihab Chaieb

Rihab Chaieb – April 21, 2020 Online concert with the OCM (Orchestre Classique de Montréal)

...no repertoire. The 2019/20 season brings her debut as Carmen for Oper Köln under Gabriel Feltz, and she creates the central character of Mère in the world premiere of Christian Jost’s Voyage vers l’espoir at Grand Théâtre de Genève in a production by acclaimed film-director Kornel Mundruczo. In her debut at Dutch National Opera, Rihab sings Lola in Robert Carsen’s new staging of Cavalleria rusticana under Lorenzo Viotti, and reprises her Cherubino...
BEETHOVEN String Quartets – Concert VI

BEETHOVEN String Quartets – Concert VI – February 2, 2020

..., Slovenian Philharmonic Hall, Auditorium du Louvre and Les Grand Interprètes series in Geneva. With a strong collaborative approach, the group has appeared at festivals such as Heidelberg Spring Festival, Incontri in Terra di Siena Festival, Dublin’s Great Music in Irish Houses, Risør Chamber Music Festival in Norway, Hong Kong International Chamber Music Festival and Perth International Arts Festival in Australia. The current season sees another...