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CRITIC’S PICKS | Classical Music Occasions You Completely Want To See This Week: Nov. 20 – 26

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CRITIC’S PICKS | Classical Music Occasions You Completely Want To See This Week: Nov. 20 – 26

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L-R (clockwise): Emily D'Angelo (Photo courtesy of the artist); Maestra JoAnn Falletta conducting in concert on February 15, 2015, 14:51:57 (Photo: David Adam Beloff/CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED); Amici Chamber Ensemble (Photo courtesy of the artists)
L-R (clockwise): Emily D’Angelo (Picture courtesy of the artist); Maestra JoAnn Falletta conducting in live performance on February 15, 2015, 14:51:57 (Picture: David Adam Beloff/CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED); Amici Chamber Ensemble (Picture courtesy of the artists)

This can be a record of concert events we’re attending, wishing we may attend, or serious about attending between Nov. 20 and Nov. 26, 2023. For extra of what’s occurring round Toronto, go to our calendar right here.

Theatre of Early Music/Dido and Aeneas

Tuesday Nov. 21 and Wednesday Nov. 22 at 7:30 p.m. at Jeanne Lamon Corridor. $45 (college students $20)

Theatre of Early Music joins U of T’s Schola Cantorum in a dance-enhanced efficiency of Purcell’s opera, with Sinead White and Alexander Dobson within the title roles. An look by Evelyn Hart is promised. Daniel Taylor is the conductor. Information right here.

Toronto Symphony Orchestra/Emily D’Angelo/David Robertson

Wednesday Nov. 22 at 8 p.m., Friday Nov. 24 at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday Nov. 25 at 8 p.m. Roy Thomson Corridor. $51+

The American conductor makes his TSO debut as an alternative to the ailing Michael Tilson Thomas in Mahler’s Fifth Symphony. Canadian mezzo-soprano (and Deutsche Grammophon recording artist) Emily D’Angelo is heard in Berg’s Seven Early Songs. Information right here.

Royal Conservatory Orchestra/JoAnn Falletta/Henry From

Friday, Nov. 24 at 8 p.m. Koerner Corridor. $25+

JoAnn Falletta, veteran music director of the Buffalo Philharmonic, leads a program of Roussel (Bacchus et Ariane Suite No. 2), Hindemith (Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber) and Brahms (Piano Concerto No. 1 with prizewinning RCM scholar Henry From as soloist). Learn our Preview right here; extra data right here.

RCM/Staatskapelle Berlin/Giedrė Šlekytė

Saturday Nov. 25 at 8 p.m. and Sunday Nov. 26 at 3 p.m. Koerner Corridor. $100+

The up-and-coming Lithuanian conductor steps in for Daniel Barenboim in a two-concert cycle of the Brahms Symphonies with the Staatskapelle Berlin (the orchestra of the Berlin State Opera). Stated to be bought out, however you may at all times strive. Information right here.

Amici Chamber Ensemble/Winds of Time

Sunday Nov. 26 at 3 p.m. Jeanne Lemon Corridor. $30+

The Amici are joined by woodwind extras (together with two TSO principals) in a program of Mozart (Quintet for Piano and Winds in E flat Ok. 452), Poulenc (Sextet for Piano and Winds; Trio for Oboe, Bassoon and Piano) and Omar Daniel (a 1991 trio for flute, clarinet and cello). Information right here.

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