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This can be a listing of live shows we’re attending, wishing we might attend, or excited about attending between Nov. 13 and Nov. 19, 2023. For extra of what’s taking place round Toronto, go to our calendar right here.
Toronto Symphony Orchestra/Illia Ovcharenko/Oksana Lyniv
Thursday Nov. 16 and Saturday Nov. 18 at 8 p.m. Roy Thomson Corridor. $42+
Oksana Lyniv, the primary lady to conduct an opera on the Bayreuth Competition, leads Dvořák’s Symphony No. 8 in a program additionally together with Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 1 as performed by her fellow Ukrainian, the Honens Competitors winner Illia Ovcharenko. Additionally heard is Maria’s Metropolis, a tribute to the besieged metropolis of Mariupol by the modern Ukrainian composer Zoltan Almashi. Data right here.
WMCT/Tesla Quartet
Thursday Nov. 16 at 1.30 p.m. Walter Corridor. $50, college students free
The 2016 second-prize winners in Banff play Beethoven’s String Quartet Op. 59 No. 3 and choices from Dvořák’s Cypresses. Much less acquainted are the String Quartet No. 3 of Grażyna Bacewicz (1909-69) and a brand new piece by Kevin Lau, the latter commissioned by the Ladies’s Musical Membership of Toronto. Data right here.
TO Reside/New York Philharmonic String Quartet
Thursday Nov. 16 at 8 p.m. George Weston Recital Corridor. $80+
4 New York Philharmonic principals go to with a program of two requirements (Mozart’s “Dissonance” and Schubert’s “Dying and the Maiden”) and one novelty (Joel Thompson’s In Response to the Insanity). “Livid, unrelenting” is the expressive marking on the opening of this piece. Data right here.
Armenian Nationwide Philharmonic Orchestra/Roy Thomson Corridor
Friday Nov. 17 at 8 p.m. Roy Thomson Corridor. $90+
The 98-year-old Yerevan-based orchestra is within the midst of a tour devoted to the one hundred and twentieth anniversary of Khachaturian and the a hundred and fiftieth anniversary of Rachmaninoff. Sergey Khachatryan is the soloist within the Violin Concerto of the previous; Eduard Topchjan conducts the Symphony No. 2 of the latter. Additionally heard are choices from Khachaturian’s ballet Spartacus. Data right here.
Hart Home Orchestra/Mahler 3
Sunday Nov. 19 at 3 p.m. Nice Corridor, Hart Home. Free
You learn that proper: Mahler’s large Third Symphony as carried out by the Hart Home Orchestra, a gaggle comprising U of T college students, alumni, school and employees. Vocals courtesy of mezzo-soprano Mila Ionkova, the Hart Home Singers and Younger Voices Toronto. Henry Janzen conducts. Data right here.
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Arthur Kaptainis has been the classical music critic of the Montreal Gazette since 1986 and wrote for the Nationwide Submit 2010-2016. His articles have appeared in Classical Voice North America and La Scena Musicale in addition to Ludwig Van. Arthur holds an MA in musicology from the College of Toronto.
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