Canada Mozart, Bartok and Dvorak: Paul Lewis, piano; Vertavo String Quartet (Oyvor Volle and Annabelle Meare, violins, Berit Cardas, viola, Bjorg Lewis, cello); Chan Centre, Vancouver, BC, 9.11.2014 (GN)
Geoffrey Newman
An Auspicious Debut for Diego Matheuz
Canada Moncayo, Mozart and Berlioz: Marc-André Hamelin (piano), Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Diego Matheuz (conductor), Orpheum Theatre, Vancouver, BC, 1.11.2014. (GN)
Pisaroni Makes a Leap from Italian Opera to German Lieder
Canada Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn and Schubert: Luca Pisaroni (bass-baritone), Wolfram Rieger (piano), Chan Centre, Vancouver BC, 26.10.2014 (GN)
Fascinating Experiments from the Danish Quartet
Canada Mendelssohn, Shostakovich and Beethoven: Danish Quartet (Frederick Oland and Rune Tonsgaard Sorenson, violins; Asbjorn Norgaard, viola; Frederik Schoyen Sjolin, cello), Vancouver Playhouse, Vancouver, BC. 19.10.2014. (GN)
Concertmaster Dale Barltrop in Conversation with Geoffrey Newman
Canada Concertmaster Dale Barltrop in Conversation with Geoffrey Newman
Youth Follows Youth: Inspiring Students by Getting Them to Concerts
Canada Ligeti, Chopin and Brahms: Adam Golka (piano), Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Joshua Weilerstein (conductor), Chan Centre, Vancouver, BC, 17.10.2014.(GN)
Encountering The ‘New’ Emerson Quartet
Canada Britten, Liebermann and Ravel: Emerson Quartet (Eugene Drucker and Philip Setzer, violins, Lawrence Dutton, viola, Paul Watkins, cello), Vancouver Playhouse, Vancouver, BC. 7.10.2014. (GN)
Bramwell Tovey in a Deeply-Felt Vaughan Williams Fourth
Canada Walton, Butterworth, Elgar and Vaughan Williams: Ariel Barnes (cello), Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Bramwell Tovey (conductor), Orpheum Theatre, Vancouver, BC, 4.10.2014. (GN)