Toronto Symphony Orchestra | String Showcase

Some of the most stunningly beautiful works in all of classical music will stir the soul as the TSO’s fabulous strings and harp take centre stage. Mahler’s heart-rending Adagietto from his Symphony No. 5 utterly captivates and seemingly stops time. An 11th-century poem by Omar Khayyám inspired pop-influenced grooves in the music of Dinuk Wijeratne, and Kelly-Marie Murphy’s Rains of Ash and Embers extols Canada’s natural wonders while contemplating our role in preserving them. A brief but life-changing moment between two young lovers plays out amid a backdrop of moonlit trees and unabashedly sensuous music in Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night).

Program

Caroline Shaw: Boris Kerner
Dinuk Wijeratne: “A Letter from the After-life” from Two Pop Songs on Antique Poems
Kelly-Marie Murphy: Rains of Ash and Embers
Mahler: Adagietto from Symphony No. 5
Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night) (String Orchestra Version, 1943)

Performers

Gustavo Gimeno, conductor
Joseph Johnson, cello
Charles Settle, percussion

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