Thirteen year-old Jan Lisiecki has won more competitions and played with more orchestras than most musicians three times his age. This Chopin recital demonstrates why.
Superstar conductor Gustavo Dudamel leads the Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela in a celebratory concert in Toronto.
The Venezuelan Brass Ensemble - whose members are from the famous Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra - in an exciting performance for a wildly enthusiastic audience.
Hannah opened for Jeremy Fisher on his tour and proved she's someone to keep an eye on.
Catchy folk/pop tunes and a wonderful rapport with the audience. Jeremy Fisher just keeps getting better.
Adina Nitescu is Butterfly and David Pomeroy is Pinkerton in this COC production of Puccini's most heartbreaking opera.
One of the finest contemporary jazz bands in Canada wrapped up their latest national tour with this breathtaking concert from St. John's.
A very special duo show, in a very special place, with some very special guests.
Lang Lang performs Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 2 with Bramwell Tovey and the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra.
Julian Fauth is a mainstay in the blues scene in Toronto, often playing more gigs in a week than there are days. Julian recently introduced himself to a national audience by winning the 2009 Blues Album of the Year at the Junos. Now Canada Live helps him to celebrate that victory with a concert at the Dakota Lounge.
This Edmonton singer-songwriter closed out the Friday night show at the 2009 TransCanada Alberta Music Series.
A sold-out show featuring songs from her new release Plain Jane as well as old favourites. With Kevin Fox on cello & Karen Graves on violin.
The Afro-Cuban All Stars are the pre-eminent purveyors of Afro-Cuban music. Here they perform at the Arden Theatre in St. Albert, AB.
Elliott Brood calls its brand of indi-rock - Death Country. It is dark, gritty folk soul music built around whiskey - drenched vocals and lyrics.
Finalists in the Honens performed in two concerts with the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra: Prokofiev, Ravel, Bartók.
A sold-out show featuring songs from her new release Plain Jane as well as old favourites. With Kevin Fox on cello & Karen Graves on violin.
This event is an evening of music performed by a number of Saskatchewan female artists. This is a fundraising initiative for the Stephen Lewis Foundation, who (along with Grandmothers for Grandmothers) raises awareness about the AIDS crisis in Africa. It's also a celebration for International Women's Day.
NQ Arbuckle's charismatic frontman Neville Quinlan wields a battered black acoustic guitar and strums it with enough force to rival any powered six-string! His gritty vocals are backed by NQA's tight twin brothers Mark and Peter Kesper on lead guitar and drums along with everybody's favourite bass player, John Dinsmore.
Clara Schumann's Piano Concerto & Felix Mendelssohn's incidental music to A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Jon Kimura Paker presents the first solo piano recital on the magnificent new Hamburg Steinway in the spectacular new Koerner Hall.
Finalists in the Honens performed in two concerts with the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra: Prokofiev, Ravel, Bartók.
Schumann's Symphony No. 4 & Mendelssohn's Piano Concerto No. 1, one in a series of VSO concerts celebrating these composers' 200th birthdays.
A real Winnipeg favourite, this quartet brought its urban-rootsy, homespun sound to the Park Theatre.
Their sound captures the duality of the prairies in that it is at once contemporary and old-fashioned, dark and light, lonely yet cosy.
Fresh from a huge US tour, the Duhks are back in their hometown to give a concert in front of their adoring fans.
The Sicilian Jazz Project has been dazzling audiences since its debut at the 2004 Distillery Jazz Festival in Toronto, and with it's intriguing mix of Sicilian folk source material and the best elements of modern jazz, it is a group like no other.
Jason and Sheldon Valleau are the principle songwriters and performers in the band The Polyjesters. From Didsbury, Alberta - the Polyjesters are an established touring and recording band having played across Canada, the U.S. and Europe. As well, the band has performed on cruise ships and has had several long term engagements at Disney World.
Jason and Sheldon are highly skilled musicians and wild performers. Canada Live was there at the Epcor Centre to capture Jason and Sheldon's take on old time jazz, novelty and pop music - a ton of fun!
Ohbijou perform songs from their new Beacons CD as well as Swift Feet for Troubling Times.
Jace Lasek and Olga Goreas of the Besnard Lakes take the stage with Land of Talk at the Segal Centre in Montreal.
The Rankin Family wrap up a 20 concert re-union tour of Canada in Halifax celebrating the release of their new CD "These Are The Moments".
Steven Page, Kevin Hearn, Raine Maida, Andy Maize, Sarah Slean, John Southworth and Alejandra Ribera perform brand new arrangements by nine of Canada's best arrangers.
The Rankin Family wrap up a 20 concert re-union tour of Canada in Halifax celebrating the release of their new CD "These Are The Moments".
CBC Radio 2 caught up with The Downchild Blues band at their sold out performance at Massey Hall, featuring Dan Aykroyd.
Sambacana's music is rooted in the traditions of samba and the Brazilian north-east as well as influenced by Brazilian jazz. Sambacana mixes these urban and folkloric elements to create their own blend of traditional and contemporary sounds.
Canada Live will record Sambacana as they make their debut on one of Toronto's famous stages - Massey Hall!
Schumann's Symphony No. 4 & Mendelssohn's Piano Concerto No. 1, one in a series of VSO concerts celebrating these composers' 200th birthdays.
Schumann: Selections from Kinderszenen, Op. 15
Mussorgsky: Selections from From Memories of Childhood
Thomas Larcher: New Work TBA
Musorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition
Haydn – OP. 9 no. 2
Five quartets by: Elizabeth Raum, Brian Current, Marcus Goddard, Derek Charke and Suzanne Hebert-Tremblay
Haydn – Op. 20 no. 4
Gillian Boucher started touring the world at just 15 - first as a featured performer at Green Linnet's 20th Anniversary Gala in New York, and then throughout North America, Scotland, Ireland, New Zealand and Australia. She has shared the stage with the likes of Emmylou Harris, Solas, Natalie MacMaster, Cappercaillie, The Battlefield Band, Tom Paxton and many other performers.
Dynamic, intense pop music set to powerful & personal lyrics.
When Dean McNeill isn't working as the head of the music department at the University of Saskatchewan, performing with the Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra or leading Saskatoon's Metro Jazz Ensemble - he finds the time to hone his skills as a trumpet player and composer...and be a dad to a toddler. This year Dean released a CD where he performed with jazz pianist Jon Ballantyne and classical pianist Bonnie Nicholson. In this concert we'll hear Dean playing both trumpet and flugelhorn on some of his jazz favourites as well as an original composition. He's joined by guitarist Jack Semple, Carlo Petrovitch on bass and drummer Arlan Kopp.
Canada's best R&B singers and musicians celebrate the great musical legacy of Motown Records.
National Arts Centre Orchestra
Douglas Boyd, conductor
Christopher Millard, bassoon
Yosuke Kawasawki, violin
Jessica Linnebach, volin
- Corelli: Concerto Grosso in F Major
Tippett: Fantasia Concertante on a Theme of Corelli
John Williams: Five Sacred Trees
Beethoven: Symphony No. 8
Morlock: Cobalt for 2 violins and orchestra (NAC/CBC Co-commission)
Doug Smith: BC SCene for 2 violins and orchestra (NAC/CBC Co-commission)
Steve Earle in a riveting solo performance for a crowd of thousands … who are not afraid to sing along.
Bruce Cockburn and Michael Ondaatje share the stage
at Glenn Gould Studio. Bruce will sing and play music, Michael will read
from his work, and together they will discuss the joys and challenges
of a creative life. The evening promises to be a unique and exciting collaboration
of two legendary Canadian talents, hosted by Laurie Brown from CBC Radio 2's show, "The Signal".
This program will be recorded for future broadcast on "Inside The Music".
A homecoming celebration following a seven-month international tour in support of Great Big Sea' latest CD release Fortune's Favour.
A homecoming celebration following a seven-month international tour in support of Great Big Sea' latest CD release Fortune's Favour.
Part of the Great Canadian Series, Ottawa's Alicia B on accordian will be joined by Veronique Turcotte on violin/vocals, Israel Martinez on guitar/vox, Joe Hincke on bass, Alvaro de Minya on Latin percussion, Ross Murray on drums/electric loops, & Angel Araos on more Latin percussion. Sounds like a party!
One of the world's finest quartets performing works by Mozart, Dvořák, Smetana and Estacio.
From the Edmonton Chamber Music Society's second annual Summer Solstice Festival, music by Mozart, Schumann and Franck.
One of the truly great string ensembles in the world performs Haydn, Schumann and the North American premier of Wolfgang Rihm's String Quartet No. 11.
Clara Schumann's Piano Concerto & Felix Mendelssohn's incidental music to A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Trio Bembe heats up the stage with Latin rhythms of Cuba, Brazil, Peru, Chile, Colombia and Spain.
A great sounding concert from two university big bands in Montreal.
Joyce Moreno is one of Brazil's hidden treasures and her music bridges many styles including samba, bossa nova, Música Popular Brasileira, and jazz.
A benefit concert featuring Montreal jazz pianists Lorraine Desmarais, François Bourassa, Coral Egan, Isabelle Cyr, Min Rager, and Yves Léveillé
Annabelle Chvostek performs songs from her most recent solo CD Resilience a release which places her as one of Canada's most passionate songwriters.
Nico Muhly programs a concert of minimalist orchestral music by British, American and Canadian composers.
James Ehnes joins the TSO led by Stéphane Denève, in a dynamic Russian programme of music by Prokofiev and Shostakovich.
Roots & bluegrass group The Breakmen bring their Canadian tour back to an end back home in Vancouver.
Taylor Kirk has awakened the critics' and fellow music-makers from their Timber Timbre slumber. His songs are, in a word, interesting in a world where different is harder to do than you'd think.
Canadian icon Bruce Cockburn in a live solo performance from Peterborough, Ontario
The Good Lovelies are like the Andrew Sisters with a dollop of bluegrass.
In this Christmas concert, MIR combine forces with Symphony Nova Scotia in a series of compositions and arrangements by the band's leader Asis Illyas.
Canadian icon Bruce Cockburn in a live solo performance from Peterborough, Ontario
John Curran returns to his home community of Ferryland to release his debut solo CD "Christmas - May Your Days Be Merry And Bright."
Performances by Sass Jordan, Rachelle van Zanten, Diana Braithwaite, Terra Hazelton, Suzie Vinnick, Shakura S'Aida with Donna Grantis, Saidah Baba Talibah and more.
Adina Nitescu is Butterfly and David Pomeroy is Pinkerton in this COC production of Puccini's most heartbreaking opera.
CBC Ottawa's been sitting on Leif Vollebekk for a few years waiting until he was truly ready to be released on the world. He's ready.
The CBC/McGill Concert Series presents its 7th annual Youth Choir Gala.
Clara Schumann's Piano Concerto & Felix Mendelssohn's incidental music to A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Schumann's Symphony No. 4 & Mendelssohn's Piano Concerto No. 1, one in a series of VSO concerts celebrating these composers' 200th birthdays.
One of the world's finest francophone songwriters performs an intimate solo concert. Enjoy a dose of Dr. Tenderness.
The always hilarious, always original folk-rocker Jim Bryson goes solo tonight for this intimate evening at the Great Canadian Theatre Company.