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T A F E L M U S I K
Vivaldi, Handel & Sandrine Piau Ravishing baroque arias with French star
soprano Sandrine Piau in her Toronto debut. Composers over the centuries have been inspired by their favourite singers – and Sandrine Piau is one of ours! Her luminous voice is featured in Vivaldi's virtuosic motet In
furore and in dramatic arias from Handel's Giulio Cesare.
Programme: Brescianello, Orchestral suite in G Minor Vivaldi, Motet In Furore (Piau) Vivaldi, Concerto for 4
violins in B Minor, op. 3, no. 10 Handel, Accomp "Pure del cielo" & Aria "Tu del ciel ministro eletto" from Il trionfo del tempo (Piau) Veracini, Orchestral
suite no. 2 in F Major Handel, Excerpts from Giulio Cesare (Piau) Sinfonia bellica Accomp "Che sento" & Aria "Se pieta" Aria "Da
tempeste"
Feb. 1, Feb. 2 @ 8:00 PM, Feb. 3
@ 3:30 PM Trinity-St. Paul's Centre, 427 Bloor St. W. | Tickets: $39 - $89 Phone: 416 964-6337 or to order online, please click here Mozart Requiem Shrouded in mystery and speculation since Mozart's death, the
Requiem is a masterpiece for all time. Join us for a powerful performance of Mozart's enigmatic last work, as well as a rich array of 17th- and 18th-century motets, culminating in Mozart's luminous Ave verum corpus.
Feb. 21, 22, 23 @ 8:00 PM, Feb. 24 @ 3:30 Koerner Hall, 273 Bloor St. W. | Tickets: $39 - $89 Phone: 416 964-6337 or to order online,
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T O R O N T O S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4 Robert Spano, the illustrious Music Director of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, conducts Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 4, an intensely dramatic work that mirrors the turmoil of
the composer's own life. The programme also includes the first of Peter Lieberson's two gorgeous song-cycles setting love poems by the Nobel prize-winning Chilean poet, Pablo Neruda.
Jan. 31
@ 8:00 PM Feb. 1 & 2
@ 7:30 PM Roy Thomson Hall, 60 Simcoe St. | Tickets -$29 - $79 Phone: 416 593-4828 Chinese hotline: 416 593-0688 Purchase online Tickets by clicking here
Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 Matthew Halls conducts the TSO and vocal soloists in the performance of Beethoven's
expansive and glorious Ninth Symphony. This work climaxes in the Ode to Joy, a spectacular message of global love and hope ("all men shall be brothers"). Hear it performed by a fabulous quartet of solo
singers, full chorus, and the TSO.
Feb. 13, 15 & 16
@ 8:00 PM Roy Thomson Hall, 60 Simcoe St. | Tickets -$29 - $145 Phone: 416 593-4828 Chinese hotline: 416 593-0688 Purchase online Tickets by clicking here
Love Will Keep Us Together TSO Principal Pops Conductor Steven Reineke has wrapped up all your favourite love songs in
one glowing, glittering package! It's a rich sampling of classic romantic melodies by golden-age songsmiths including Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, and Henry Mancini, plus blockbuster hits such as My Heart Will Go On
(from Titanic), and I Will Always Love You.
Feb. 19 &20 @ 8:00 PM, Feb. 20
@ 2:00 PM Roy Thomson Hall, 60 Simcoe St. | Tickets -$29 - $110 Phone: 416 593-4828 Chinese hotline: 416 593-0688 Purchase online Tickets by clicking here
Pictures at an Exhibition (Family Concert) Pictures at an Exhibition is one of the most descriptive and colourful
works ever written. Take your imagination on a remarkable journey as you walk through the Great Gates of Kiev, plod alongside a heavy ox-cart in Bydlo, and delight in the Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks. This Russian
classic is sure to become a lifelong favourite!
Come to the concert half an hour early for a special pre-concert performance in the lobby!
Young People's Concerts are performances for families with
children ages 5 - 12, and often include actors, dancers, costumes, and more! Unfortunately, children under 2 years of age are not allowed.
Feb. 23
@ 1:30 PM and 3:30 PM Roy Thomson Hall, 60 Simcoe St. | Tickets -$20 - $32 Phone: 416 593-4828 Chinese hotline: 416 593-0688 Purchase online Tickets by
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C A N A D I A N O P E R A C O M P A N Y
Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre: 2012 - 2013 Free Concert Series The insanely popular Free Concert Series returns
for it's fourth season at the 3rd floor Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre, which allows for breath-taking views through floor to ceiling glass windows of University Avenue as a backdrop, includes concerts, performances and
presentations by young artists, Canadian and international opera stars and COC staff. This is an exciting opportunity for Torontonians to experience the artistic excellence and cultural diversity of the city
in the beautiful new Four Seasons Centre For The Performing Arts. All concerts are free to the public. "Brown bag" lunches are welcome for the noon performances.
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Pathos & Power Pathos & Power
are in the air when Orchestra Toronto performs three romantic and compelling compositions on the afternoon of Sunday, February 24
The concert begins with Peer Gynt
Suite No. 1, the most popular work by Norway's greatest composer, Edvard Grieg. Its romantic and timeless melodies are part of the incidental music Grieg wrote for the premier of Henrik Ibsen's play of the same name in 1876 in Oslo. Later, in 1888 and 1891, Grieg extracted eight movements to make two four-movement suites — one of them the Suite No. 1 being performed by Orchestra Toronto.
The power and beauty of our northern landscape are celebrated in The Canadian Shield
by John Burge, a composer, music educator and pianist born in Dryden, Ontario. Since 1987 Burge has been a professor of composition and theory at the School of Music at Queen's University in Kingston.
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afternoon ends with Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's magnificent masterpiece, his Symphony No. 4 in F minor. Tchaikovsky wrote the symphony in 1877 and 1878, not long after his patroness, Nadezhda von Meck, entered his life.
He completed the work in the aftermath of a catastrophic marriage and told von Meck not only that he wanted to dedicate it to her, but that she would find in it "an echo of your most intimate thoughts and emotions."
The turbulent changes in Tchaikovsky's life led him to push the boundaries of the strict Western form and create new structures to accommodate music that was strongly personal and expressive. His Fourth Symphony
is Tchaikovsky's first composition to serve as a reflection of his life — dramatic, urgent, enormously expressive.
Sun. Feb. 24 @ 3:00 PM George Weston Recital Hall, Toronto Centre
for the Arts, 5040 Yonge St. | Tickets: $14 - $39 Phone: 1-855-985-ARTS (2787) or to order online, please click here _______________________________________________ |
