This can be a listing of live shows we’re attending, wishing we might attend, or eager about attending between Feb. 20 and Feb. 26, 2023. For extra particulars on what’s taking place round Toronto, go to our calendar right here.
RCM/Emily D’Angelo with Sophia Muñoz
Wednesday Feb. 22 at 8 p.m. Koerner Corridor. $35+
The fast-rising Toronto mezzo-soprano (and Deutsche Grammophon artist) presents an offbeat recital together with Hildegard, Schoenberg, Mazzoli, Copland and Clarke, amongst others. Sophia Muñoz is the pianist. Information right here.
Toronto Symphony Orchestra/Louis Lortie
Wednesday Feb. 22 at 8 p.m. (repeats Friday Feb. 24 at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday Feb. 25 at 8 p.m.) Roy Thomson Corridor. $69+
Sir Andrew Davis leads the North American premiere of his orchestration of Alban Berg’s Piano Sonata Op. 1. Louis Lortie, one other previous good friend of the TSO, performs Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 23 Okay. 488. After intermission we hear Rachmaninoff’s acquainted Symphonic Dances. Information right here.
Girls’s Musical Membership of Toronto/Fjóla Evans
Thursday Feb. 23 at 1:30 p.m. Walter Corridor. $45
This uncommon WMCT program focuses on authentic music and preparations by the Icelandic-Canadian composer Fjóla Evans. Additionally heard are Grieg’s String Quartet No. 1 and György Ligeti’s Sonata for Solo Cello. Among the many performers is an American ensemble, the Aizuri Quartet. Information right here.
Toronto Symphony Youth Orchestra/Simon Rivard
Saturday Feb. 25 at 3 p.m. George Weston Recital Corridor. $31 ($31 beneath 36)
Simon Rivard leads the 22-and-under ensemble by Messiaen’s Les Offrandes oubliées, Falla’s El amor brujo us Sibelius’s Symphony No. 1. Visitor conductor Trevor Wilson provides Beethoven’s Coriolan Overture. Information right here.
Larger Toronto Philharmonic/London Calling
Sunday Feb. 26 at 3 p.m. Calvin Presbyterian Church (26 Delisle Ave.). $27+
The group orchestra beneath David Fallis performs a program of English hits, together with Elgar’s Serenade for Strings, Walton’s music from Henry V and Vaughan Williams’s English Folks Track Suite. Information right here.
Opus Chamber Music/Opus 2
Sunday Feb. 26 at 6 p.m. Grace Church-on-the-Hill (300 Lonsdale Rd.). $40 ($20 college students and seniors)
The fledgling chamber society beneath the course of pianist Kevin Ahfat brings collectively American (Sirena Huang, violin, and Brannon Cho, cello) and Torontonian (Erika Raum, violin and Barry Shiffman, viola) luminaries to play Poulenc’s Cello Sonata, Ysaÿe’s Solo Violin Sonata No. 5, Ravel’s Violin Sonata No. 2 and Dvořák’s Piano Quintet Op. 81. Information right here.
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Arthur Kaptainis has been the classical music critic of the Montreal Gazette since 1986 and wrote for the Nationwide Put up 2010-2016. His articles have appeared in Classical Voice North America and La Scena Musicale in addition to Ludwig Van. Arthur holds an MA in musicology from the College of Toronto.
