The Toronto Symphony Orchestra’s new concetmaster, Jonathan Crow, continues to be an active chamber musician, including taking part in the three-day Vancouver Winter Chamber Music Festival in November.
CBC Radio 2’s extensive list of concerts on demand includes a very slightly ragged, but still magnetically compelling performance of Franz Schubert’s C Major Quintet, featuring Crow with Curtis Institute violin student Timothy Chooi alongside great chamber veterans: viola player David Harding and cellists Peter Wiley and Nicholas Canellakis.
It’s seems like a fine way to recover from Boxing Day madness.
Check it out here.
John Terauds, Editor-Emeritus of Ludwig van Toronto, is currently a Divinity student at the University of Toronto and a church music director. He joined the Toronto Star in 1988, was the classical music critic from 2005 to 2012, and continues as a freelance critic for the paper. He is the co-author of Roy Thomson Hall: A Portrait, a book written with Toronto Star Colleague, William Littler.
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