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It is a checklist of concert events we’re attending, wishing we might attend, or serious about attending between Jan. 22 and Jan. 28, 2024. For extra of what’s taking place round Toronto, go to our calendar right here.
Esprit Orchestra/Three
Wednesday Jan. 27 at 8 p.m. Koerner Corridor. $25+
The fashionable-minded orchestra beneath Alex Pauk offers the North American premiere of Operascope, a historical past of operatic music by South Korea’s Unsuk Chin, full with quotations. There are, because the title of the live performance implies, two different works on this system. Misato Mochizuki (Japan) pays tribute to Schumann by means of the lens of Carl Jung. The rating by Rita Ueda (Canada) incorporates a solo shō (Japanese mouth organ), sheng (Chinese language mouth organ) and suona (Chinese language shawm). Learn our Preview of Operascope right here. Information right here.
Toronto Symphony Orchestra/Ray Chen/Alpesh Chauhan
Friday Jan. 26 at 7:30 p.m., Saturday Jan. 27 at 8 p.m. Roy Thomson Corridor. $68+
Taiwanese violinist Ray Chen joins British conductor (and TSO debutant) Alpesh Chauhan in Korngold’s previously underplayed (and now overplayed) Violin Concerto. Beethoven’s “Pastoral” Symphony is heard after intermission. The novel opener is Tchaikovsky’s symphonic poem Fatum. Information right here.
COC/The Crafty Little Vixen
Friday Jan. 26 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday Jan. 28 at 2 p.m. Additionally Feb. 3, 8, 10, 14 and 16. 4 Seasons Centre. $35+
The COC begins its 2024 schedule with an English Nationwide Opera staging of Janáček’s woodland fantasy of 1923. Soprano Jane Archibald takes the title function and Johannes Debus conducts. References to industrial forestry are promised however the viewers advisory reads like a suggestion: “The Crafty Little Vixen incorporates scenes with atmospheric results, vivid lights, pyrotechnics, and strobe-like results.” Sung in Czech. Learn our Preview right here. Information right here.
Sinfonia Toronto/Dmitri Levkovich
Friday Jan. 26 at 8 p.m. Jeanne Lamon Corridor. $52, senior $40, scholar $20
A uncommon case of two works by Janáček on the identical evening, as Nurhan Arman leads his string orchestra by means of the seven-movement Idyll. Ukrainian-Canadian Dmitri Levkovich is the soloist in a discount of Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 23. Different works are by Alice Ping Yee Ho and Kevork Andonian. Information right here.
Ute Lemper/FILMharmonic Orchestra
Friday Jan. 26 at 8 p.m. Massey Corridor. $59+
The German chanteuse provides program of cabaret, Broadway and French chanson within the heat environment of Massey Corridor. Among the many sources and choices: Kander & Ebb’s Cabaret, Weill & Brecht’s Weimar Suite and Brel’s Ne me quitte pas. With an orchestra carried out by Francis Choinière. Learn our interview with Ute right here. Information right here.
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Arthur Kaptainis was classical music critic of the Montreal Gazette from 1986 to 2022 and wrote for the Nationwide Publish from 2010 to 2016. His articles seem in Classical Voice North America and Gramophone in addition to Ludwig Van. Arthur holds an MA in musicology from the College of Toronto. He’s president of the Music Critics Affiliation of North America.
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