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Toronto Symphony Orchestra | Dynamic Duo: Hannigan & Storgårds
A doubly dramatic opening! Barbara Hannigan conducts Beethoven’s overture to Goethe’s play, Haydn’s inventive orchestral showpiece, and, with John Storgårds as soloist, a Dutilleux nocturne. Then, Storgårds conducts the symphony that marked the turning point of Sibelius’s composing style, as well as Brett Dean’s re-examination of Shakespeare’s ill-fated heroine, sung by Hannigan. (Pictured: Barbara Hannigan, […]
Find out more »Tafelmusik | Tafelmusik Meets Tchaikovsky
Tafelmusik plays Tchaikovsky for the first time, alongside inventive string symphonies by Mendelssohn. Pre-concert Chat Join us one hour before each concert for a free pre-concert chat with cellist, gambist, and researcher Kate Bennett Wadsworth. Program Mendelssohn Sinfoniesatz in C Minor (1823) Mendelssohn String symphony no. 7 in D Minor (1821/22) Mendelssohn Scherzo from A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1842), arranged by Carlo […]
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