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Manchester Collective’s Sirocco blows away New York
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Manchester Collective and Abel Selaocoe aim to reshape classical music with their collaboration Sirocco. Their breathtaking performance at the 92nd Street Y is more rock concert than chamber recital.
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The Don Wright Faculty of Music at Western University is partnering with the Vancouver Recital Society to bring renowned, rising artits to London, Ont.Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Fantasy in C minor K 475 The year 1785 was a good one for Mozart. In the words of musicologist John Irving, he had become something of a ‘hot property’ in Vienna, enjoying considerable success both as … Continue reading
Johann Sebastian Bach Chaconne in D minor BWV 1004 (arr. Busoni) The 19th century witnessed a revival of interest in the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. But the sound world of the 19th century with its new spacious concert halls … Continue reading
Seeing Double: The Doppelgänger Project Reprinted courtesy of Cal Performances, University of California, Berkeley, CA “Mir graust es, wenn ich sein Antlitz sehe/Der Mond zeigt mir meine eigne Gestalt” (“It horrifies me when I see his face/The moon reveals my own … Continue reading
Mezzo-soprano Eva Nikolovska has curated an intriguing recital program of songs composed in the forty years between 1865 and 1905, a selection that highlights the changing styles of music emanating from three important centres of music-making. From Vienna there are … Continue reading
NOTICE OF THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF MEMBERS OF THE VANCOUVER RECITAL SOCIETY (the “Society”). The Board of Directors of the Society hereby gives notice that the Annual General Meeting of the Society will be held online, via ZOOM (details … Continue reading
Robert Schumann Widmung (arr. Franz Liszt) The year 1840 was Robert Schumann’s Liederjahr, his ‘year of song’. After 10 years of writing almost exclusively for the piano, Schumann in 1840 burst into song, composing well over a hundred Lieder. … Continue reading
Alexander Scriabin Valse Op. 38 It is easy to see why Alexander Scriabin was known as “the Russian Chopin.” Like his Polish musical forebear he wrote almost exclusively for the piano and began his career by composing mazurkas, waltzes, nocturnes, … Continue reading
This is the announcement we were hoping we wouldn’t have to make: we’re cancelling the balance of our 2020-21 Season. No doubt this news won’t come as a surprise, but it’s terribly disappointing nonetheless. When we announced the cancellation of … Continue reading
We’ve made the difficult decision to cancel all concerts scheduled to occur in the first half of the 2020-21 Season. The eleven cancelled concerts include, in chronological order: soprano Anna Caterina Antonacci, The Jerusalem Quartet playing all the Beethoven Quartets … Continue reading
UDATE March 18, 2020 Given the precautionary measures being taken to prevent the spread of COVID-19, and the projection that social distancing may continue for the next few months, we have decided to cancel the remaining concerts in our 2019-20 … Continue reading
