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FEATURES

Yannick Nézet-Séguin preps for Rotterdam
by Arthur Kaptainis

Quebec conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin reflects on his new challenge as incoming music director of Amsterdam’s “other” orchestra.

Classics online: The future is now
by Robert Jordan

Pop music consumers, especially the young, are increasingly turning to the Internet to purchase music, either for home-delivery of physical CDs and DVDs or to build a virtual library of music files. Classical music listeners are just beginning to catch up, as band-width increases. Where will it take us?.

SECTIONS

IN TUNE

People, Places & Events in the World of Classical Music
West Coast Notes: Victoria’s Aventa Ensemble
Tokai Quartet wins Banff prize

AUDIOFILE
by Robert Franner

Three remedies for the post-holiday blues.

 

COLLECTING THOUGHTS
by Bruce Surtees

The Pianist-Conductors.

BOOK REVIEWS

Glenn Gould: A Life in Pictures
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain

LISTENING POST

LA RUE: The Complete Magnificats; Three Salve Reginas
SILVESTROV: Symphony No. 6
DVOŘÁK: Early Works for String Quartet
HANDEL: Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno

PLUS: SHOSTAKOVICH, RÖNTGEN, MENDELSSOHN & MORE

COLLECTIONS

BACK FROM OBLIVION, Music for ophicleide
GLENN GOULD: THE YOUNG MAVERICK
SEASCAPES - Debussy, Bridge, Glazunov, Zhou Long
GLENN GOULD: THE RADIO ARTIST

DVDs

DVOŘÁK: Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95 (“New World”)
HINDEMITH: Cardillac

 

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