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Montreal’s Orchestre Métropolitain, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin, is inspired by the flute virtuosity of Emmanuel Pahud.

Six decades after Charles Munch finished revamping the BSO’s sound, his shadow seems to smile benevolently on the current crop of musicians when playing French music.

A spellbinding journey as Emmanuel Pahud plays a 70-minute solo programme in a near capacity audience in the 1600-seater concert hall.

The accumulated experience of over 160 years of quartet playing is revealed in an intensity of passion undimmed by the passage of time in this exhilarating concert by the Brodskys.

The program, set long before Crumb’s death in February, following an implicit logic from Debussy to Stravinsky through Charles Ives and ending in Crumb’s somber lament, Ancient Voices of Children. 

The Israeli Chamber Project gave Milhaud's La Création du monde a warm and easy stride, a tactic that didn’t sit well in the second half with the ever-austere Messiaen Quartet for the End of Time.