{"id":98050,"date":"2023-07-31T10:15:18","date_gmt":"2023-07-31T14:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/?p=98050"},"modified":"2023-07-31T10:15:18","modified_gmt":"2023-07-31T14:15:18","slug":"critics-picks-classical-music-events-absolutely-need-see-week-july-31-aug-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2023\/07\/31\/critics-picks-classical-music-events-absolutely-need-see-week-july-31-aug-6\/","title":{"rendered":"CRITIC\u2019S PICKS | Classical Music Events You Absolutely Need To See This Week: July 31 \u2013 Aug. 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_98051\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-98051\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-98051\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/07\/Critics-Picks-July-31-2023.jpg\" alt=\"L-R: Marika Bournaki &amp; Julian Schwarz (Photo courtesy of Stratford Summer Music); Clara Schumann &amp; Johannes Brahms (Photo courtesy of Festival of the Sound)\" width=\"1200\" height=\"628\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-98051\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">L-R: Marika Bournaki &amp; Julian Schwarz (Photo courtesy of Stratford Summer Music); Clara Schumann &amp; Johannes Brahms (Photo courtesy of Festival of the Sound)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This is a list of concerts we are attending, wishing we could attend, or thinking about attending between July 31 and Aug. 6, 2023. For more of what\u2019s happening around Toronto, visit our calendar <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/events\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h3>Festival of the Sound\/Clara &amp; Johannes<\/h3>\n<p>Wednesday Aug, 2 at 1:30 p.m., 6:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Stockley Centre, Parry Sound. $45<\/p>\n<p>The Festival of the Sound dedicates a day to Brahms and Clara Schumann. Selections include Johannes\u2019s Cello Sonatas and Clara\u2019s Variations on a Theme of Robert Schumann. The artists: Simon Fryer, Rachel Mercer and Paul Marleyn, cello; Angela Park and Futaba Niekawa, piano; Alison Beckwith, actress; Gwen Thompson, violin. Oliver Robinow, grandson to one of Clara\u2019s pupils, gives a talk. Multimedia content is promised in the evening performance, hosted by Larry Beckwith. Info <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/festivalofthesound.ca\/series\/2023-festival\/?d=2023-08-02\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h3>Stratford Summer Music\/ Julian Schwarz\/Marika Bournaki<\/h3>\n<p>Sunday Aug. 6 at 3 p.m. Avondale United Church. $40+<\/p>\n<p>The husband-and-wife cello-and-piano team play Beethoven\u2019s Sonata Op. 69, Poulenc\u2019s Cello Sonata, Chopin\u2019s Introduction and Polonaise Brillante Op. 3 and works by Korngold and Gavin Fraser. Info <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/stratfordsummermusic.ca\/event\/marika-bournaki-and-julian-schwartz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"western\"><em><b>#LUDWIGVAN<\/b><\/em><\/h3>\n<p class=\"western\"><em>Get the daily arts news straight to your inbox.<\/em><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"western\"><em>Sign up for the Ludwig van Daily \u2014 classical music and opera in five minutes or less <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/ludwig-van.us9.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=4f785cb3f9058f2393ccad035&amp;id=57cdb68eac\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>HERE<\/em><\/a>.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Classical music and opera events in Toronto for the week of July 31 to Aug. 6.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":98051,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[40430,9,10,76,19,3895,3693,43,59],"tags":[1272,3150],"yst_prominent_words":[21107,10217,7418,20292,35804,13137,7412,19718,15584,24880,6616,10287,8757,12857,8686,10171,17864,17861,7416],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/07\/Critics-Picks-July-31-2023.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bakr-pvs","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98050"}],"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\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98050"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98052,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98050\/revisions\/98052"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98050"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=98050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}