Glenn Gould Prize Gala Concert Honouring Jessye Norman a memorable experience, and a fitting tribute to musical excellence.

The Juilliard String Quartet and Marc-André Hamelin send a valentine to Toronto with an intimate recital at Jane Mallett Theatre.

No one would award the TSO subscription concerts this week a prize for originality, but a few honours for burnished tone and old-fashioned musicality would not be amiss.

Virtuoso technique sees a confident start to the 21C Music Festival with Stewart Goodyear and the TSO in tow.

Conductor Johannes Debus, four strong soloists, and a responsive TSO were great, but it was the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir under David Fallis that made this Handel's Messiah truly special.

Half empty or half full? This depends, on your point of view, but if the quality of music-making is factored in, the latter descriptor applies to Roy Thomson Hall on Thursday and a concert by the Toronto Symphony Orchestra.

'Best Orchestra in Canada' is typically thought to be a fixed competition between three or four contenders. Last night's concert at Koerner Hall shows us that The Orchestra Métropolitain is one of them.

Music Toronto opens their 47th season with a rather serious program by piano virtuoso Marc-André Hamelin.

If the concert did not reflect the TSO at its best, it had the makings of an evening that might.

Toronto has its own Gustavo — Gustavo Gimeno, who in September 2020 becomes the 11th music director of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra.