Canada's leading classical music stars share the music that inspires them and shapes their lives.
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Saturday December 11, 2010 at 3:00 AM
Karina Gauvin has a spectacularly beautiful voice. If you need instant proof, just open Karina's website. (It's something when a home page makes you stop and listen!)
Lately Karina has been busy performing as soprano soloist in a number of productions of Handel's Messiah, including some upcoming concerts with the New York Philharmonic (with Bernard Labadie conducting). But today you can hear her in the radio host role, at This Is My Music.
Continue reading "Karina Gauvin, singing Messiah, hosting This Is My Music" »
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Saturday December 4, 2010 at 3:00 AM
Jon Kimura Parker, a.k.a. "Jackie" is back as host of This Is My Music.
Since he last appeared on the show he's done all manner of things, as is frequently the case with Parker. (Hey, what else would you expect from a pianist who has jammed with Doc Severinsen, performed for Queen Elizabeth -- twice -- and played the Hollywood Bowl in a Star Trek suit!)
Continue reading "Jackie is back!" »
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Saturday November 27, 2010 at 3:00 AM
We're looking forward to Isabel Bayrakdarian in the Canadian Opera Company's production of Mozart's The Magic Flute early in the new year. But lately she's been performing to slightly smaller audiences -- in recitals.
Continue reading "From biomedical engineering to opera...Isabel Bayrakdarian" »
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Saturday November 20, 2010 at 3:00 AM
Which were the two most popular instruments of the 17th and 18th centuries? If you answered "lute and viola da gamba," you are correct. And although the lute seems to still have a presence in mainstream culture -- thanks in part to Sting -- the viola da gamba? Less so.
Continue reading "Encore Susie Napper, viola da gambist" »
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Saturday November 13, 2010 at 3:00 AM
Timothy Vernon is perhaps best known for founding Pacific Opera Victoria back in 1980, and as music director of Orchestra London for the past ten years. Now he's returning to the latter as conductor laureate, according to this report. And we have him in an encore presentation of This Is My Music today as well.
Continue reading "From The Beach Boys, to Vienna Vegetable Orchestra, with conductor Timothy Vernon" »
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Saturday November 6, 2010 at 3:00 AM
Ben is back! Tenor Ben Heppner returns to the This Is My Music studio with a show devoted to some of his favourite things. (No, I'm not suggesting he's a Sound of Music or Coltrane fan, although either of these things is possible.)
Continue reading "Ben Heppner's favourites...from duets to dinners" »
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Saturday October 30, 2010 at 3:00 AM
Louis Lortie is one of this country's best known pianists, and we're pleased to announce that today he makes his This Is My Music host debut, with a playlist that includes a goodly helping of other pianists: Glenn Gould, Alfred Cortot, Valdimir Horowitz, Clara Haskil, Bill Evans and Wilhelm Kempff.
Continue reading "This is Louis Lortie's music" »
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Saturday October 23, 2010 at 3:00 AM
A new recording featuring mezzo-soprano Catherine Robbin is a wonderful thing. She's got such a gorgeous voice, one that is well-loved by the This Is My Music team. So listen today for an encore presentation of Catherine Robbin hosting the show, but also seek out the new Analekta recording she sings on, Wolf: Italienisches Liederbuch (Italian Songbook).
Continue reading "The Divine Miss Robbin" »
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Saturday October 16, 2010 at 3:00 AM
If you've watched the CBC TV show The Tudors, you've heard the work of David Fallis, artistic director of the Toronto Consort. He's the show's music consultant, and like any good historian he also understands how his subject of expertise fit into the society of the day. So, 16th century music and social conventions? David's your man.
But he's our man today, when he plays some of his favourite music on This Is My Music. With a love of music spanning 800 years or so (he's led the Toronto Consort in programs of medieval, renaissance and baroque music) there's a lot of scope for potential repertoire. His playlist ranges from Bach and Monteverdi to the early 15th century poet Oswald von Wolkenstein to Canadian blues harmonica legend Carlos del Junco.
Continue reading "This is David Fallis' Music" »
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Saturday October 9, 2010 at 3:00 AM
Tracy Dahl, the famed soprano (she's performed with the Metropolitan Opera, the San Francisco Opera, the COC etc. etc.) from Winnipeg, hosts This Is My Music this weekend.
And the musicians she chose to play include Placido Domingo, Lang Lang, James Ehnes, Yo Yo Ma, Connie Kaldor and Dame Janet Baker -- here's Tracy Dahl's complete playlist.
Continue reading "This is Tracy Dahl's music" »
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