{"id":3367,"date":"2012-04-30T08:12:11","date_gmt":"2012-04-30T13:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/?p=3367"},"modified":"2012-04-30T08:12:11","modified_gmt":"2012-04-30T13:12:11","slug":"april-30-toronto-classical-concert-highlights-for-the-next-seven-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2012\/04\/30\/april-30-toronto-classical-concert-highlights-for-the-next-seven-days\/","title":{"rendered":"April 30: Toronto classical concert highlights for the next seven days"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3372\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3372\" style=\"width: 440px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/207.112.70.56\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/erin1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3372\" title=\"erin\" src=\"http:\/\/207.112.70.56\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/erin1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"440\" height=\"297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/04\/erin1.jpg 508w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/04\/erin1-300x203.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3372\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Soprano Erin Wall sings Richard Strauss at lunchtime on Tuesday (Larry Lapidus photo).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MONDAY<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.associates-tso.org\/5small.html\" target=\"_blank\">Associates of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra<\/a> at Church of the Redeemer, 7:30 p.m.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>One of the city&#8217;s best kept chamber music secrets is this series of five concerts presented every season by these friends and patrons of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This concert, at the Church of the Redeemer (at the corner of Bloor St and Avenue Rd), features Toronto Symphony Orchestra violinists Paul Meyer and Wendy Rose, violist Kent Teeple and cellist Marie G\u00e9linas in a rich trio of pieces from the string quartet canon: Joseph Haydn&#8217;s <em>String Quartet <\/em>in D Major, Op.76 No.5, Ludwig van Beethoven&#8217;s <em>String Quartet No.5<\/em> in A Major, Op.18 No.5 and the <em>String Quartet No.3<\/em> in B-flat Major, Op.67 No.3, by Johannes Brahms.<\/p>\n<p>The most expensive tickets are but $18, and are available at the door.<\/p>\n<p><strong>TUESDAY<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Soprano Erin Wall sings Richard Strauss at the Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre, noon. Free.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Run, don&#8217;t walk, to the Four Seasons Centre about 45 minutes before the start of this special lunchtime concert, which features soprano Erin Wall singing an all-Richard Strauss programme with piano accompanist (and Canadian Opera Company chorus master) Sandra Horst. The singer, who is doing a wonderful job as Antonia in the COC&#8217;s current production of <em>Tales of Hoffman<\/em>, is in full vocal flower and has a seductive way with a musical phrase. The programme includes Strauss&#8217;s four-song cycle <em>M\u00e4dchenblumen<\/em> (Maidenflowers), Op. 22.<\/p>\n<p>In case you need an introduction, here is Barbara Hendricks singing &#8220;Kornblumen,&#8221; the first of the <em>M\u00e4dchenblumen<\/em>:<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OgWuD4-ndC8?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p><strong>WEDNESDAY TO SUNDAY<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>British violinist Rachel Podger makes her d\u00e9but with Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra at Trinity St. Paul&#8217;s Centre.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;ll have more on this later.<\/p>\n<p><strong>THURSDAY<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>There are two very different, yet equally notable concerts on this night:<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3374\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3374\" style=\"width: 440px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/207.112.70.56\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/layla.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3374\" title=\"layla\" src=\"http:\/\/207.112.70.56\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/layla.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"440\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/04\/layla.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/04\/layla-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3374\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Canadian soprano Layla Claire makes her Toronto recital d\u00e9but.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>Soprano <a href=\"http:\/\/laylaclaire.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Layla Claire<\/a> in recital at the Glenn Gould Studio, 8 p.m.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Pianist Steven Philcox has the pleasure of accompanying what I think is the Toronto recital d\u00e9but of Penticton, B.C. native Layla Claire, who has leapt from success to success since winning herself a spot in the Metropolitan Opera&#8217;s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program and picking up a clutch of international competition laurels.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of opera, Claire is presenting a classic art song programme, starting with Henry Purcell&#8217;s timeless <em>Music for a While<\/em> and Benjamin Britten&#8217;s gorgeous cycle, <em>On This Island<\/em>. There are <em>Ophelia-Lieder<\/em> by Richard Strauss, m\u00e9lodies by Gabriel Faur\u00e9, Claude Debussy, Ernest Chausson and Joseph Canteloube, and <em>L\u00faa descolorida<\/em>, by Argentinian composer Osvaldo Golijov.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, and tickets, click <a href=\"http:\/\/roythomson.com\/eventdetail\/970\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here is Claire singing a bit of Handel with Elizabeth DeShong in the Met&#8217;s production of <em>Enchanted Island<\/em> last month, followed by some backstage vocal development at the Met with Kiri Te Kanawa:<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6Qt1yemWZI4?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oJ1IynOMtzc?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>+++<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/207.112.70.56\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/maisky.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3377\" title=\"maisky\" src=\"http:\/\/207.112.70.56\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/maisky.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"440\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/04\/maisky.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/04\/maisky-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/04\/maisky-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Yuri Bashmet and the Moscow Soloists 20th Anniversary Tour at Roy Thomson Hall, 8 p.m.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>One of the highlights of this concert, presented by Show One Productions, is the first Toronto appearance by Russian cellist Mischa Maisky in 24 years. Expect plenty of fireworks from this group of musical firebrands.<\/p>\n<p>The programme is made up of smaller-scale music that should shine, despite the size of Roy Thomson Hall. Included is Gustav Mahler&#8217;s expansion on Franz Schubert&#8217;s <em>&#8220;Death and the Maiden&#8221; String Quartet<\/em>, Joseph Haydn&#8217;s C-Major <em>Cello Concerto<\/em>, the Op. 19 <em>Nocturne<\/em> for cello and orchestra by Peter Ilytch Tchaikovsky and Johannes Brahms&#8217; B-minor <em>Quintet<\/em> for viola and strings, Op. 115.<\/p>\n<p>For tickets (and very little extra information), click <a href=\"http:\/\/roythomson.com\/eventdetail\/1018\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>FRIDAY<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jane Bunnett and the Gismontis at Koerner Hall, 8 p.m.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t classical music, but a blend of Brazilian influences and jazz, featuring the multi-talented brothers Egberto and Alexandre Gismonti , courtesty of Soundstreams.<\/p>\n<p>For more details, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.soundstreams.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SATURDAY<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3381\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3381\" style=\"width: 440px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/207.112.70.56\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/tallis.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3381\" title=\"tallis\" src=\"http:\/\/207.112.70.56\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/tallis.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"440\" height=\"264\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/04\/tallis.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/04\/tallis-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/04\/tallis-1024x615.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\" \/><\/a><\/em><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3381\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tallis Choir<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>The Tallis Choir at St. Patrick&#8217;s Church, 7:30 p.m.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Director Peter Mahon (also a prominent member of the Tafelmusik Chramber Choir) has brought a great deal of polish to the Tallis Choir, which closes its season with highlights from the history of the English church anthem in the friendly acoustics of St. Patrick&#8217;s Church (on McCaul St. just around the corner from the AGO).<\/p>\n<p>The Renaissance is represented by Thomas Tallis&#8217;s haunting setting of the <em>Lamentations of Jeremiah<\/em> and William Byrd&#8217;s <em>Sing Joyfully<\/em>. There are <em>Three Motets<\/em> by Charles Villiers Stanford and, to close, the epitome of the 20th century anthem,<em> Faire is the Heaven<\/em>, by William Harris.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tallischoir.com\/currentseason.html#Anthem\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the choir singing Gabrielli&#8217;s setting of <em>O magnum mysterium<\/em> at St. Patrick&#8217;s in Dec. 2010, followed by the University of London Chamber Choir singing <em>Faire is the Heaven<\/em>:<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/31CVYqp0CE4?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/z7gaMF4CywA?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p><strong>SUNDAY<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paxchristichorale.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pax Christi Chorale<\/a> celebrates its 25th anniversary with a performance of Edward Elgar&#8217;s <em>The Kingdom<\/em>, with full orchestra, at Koerner Hall, 3 p.m.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I will have more on this later.<\/p>\n<p><em>John Terauds<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MONDAY Associates of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra at Church of the Redeemer, 7:30 p.m. One of the city&#8217;s best kept chamber music secrets is this series of five concerts presented every season by these friends and patrons of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3372,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,74,9,10,11,76,19,21,32,36,37,38,39,53,56,57,58,60,63,67,68,70],"tags":[344,6455,1120,1184,1926,2743,2769,3071,3223,3234,3275,6474,3359],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/04\/erin1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bakr-Sj","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3367"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3367"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=3367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}