Toronto Symphony 2009/2010 Season Highlights
The Toronto Symphony Orchestra announced its 2009/10 lineup on Tuesday. There is a reasonable amount of new music happening as part of the annual New Creations Festival but as far as balancing new rep out throughout the season, the programmers have come up a bit short this year.
Notable highlights include a visit by Miss Mussel’s favourite conductor, Gianandrea Noseda for a performance of Verdi’s Requiem as well as Thomas Dausgaard for a 3-day Sibelius Festival.
There’s also a horn concerto in January and our home-grown conducting superhero Yannick Nézet-Séguin is bringing his Rotterdam band home in February.
Here are the 11 concerts Miss Mussel is going to put in here diary. Download the full season brochure here.
21st, 22nd & 24th October
Bernstein (orch. Ramin): Clarinet Sonata (Canadian Premi̬re); Mozart Clarinet Concerto K. 622; Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 4 РJoaquin Valdepe̱as, clarinet | Peter Oundjian, conductor
9th & 12th December
Christopher Theofanidis: Rainbow Body (Canadian Premiere); Philip Glass: The Four Seasons for Violin (World Premiere); Beethoven: Symphony No. 6; — Robert McDuffie, violin | Peter Oundjian, baton
13th, 14th & 17th January
Mozart: Symphony No. 25, K. 173dB; Horn Concerto No. 2, K. 417; Ch’io mi scordi di te? Non temer amato bene, K. 505; Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 21, K. 467; — Jonathan Biss, piano; Neil Deland, horn; Shannon Mercer, soprano | Peter Oundjian, conductor
18th & 20th February
Verdi: Requiem; — Michele Crider, soprano; Daniela Barcellona, mezzo-soprano; Giuseppe Filianoti, tenor; bass TBA | Toronto Mendelssohn Choir | Gianandrea Noseda, baton
24th February
Messaien: Les offrandes oubliées; Ravel: Piano Concerto for the Left Hand; R. Strauss: Ein Heldenleben; — Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra | Jean Yves Thibaudet, piano | Yannick Nézet-Séguin, baton
3rd March
Osvaldo Golijov: Last Round; Gerald Barry: La Plus Forte (Canadian Première); Jacques Hétu: Symphony No. 5 (TSO Commission/World Première) — Barbara Hannigan, soprano ; Peter Oundjian, baton | part of the New Creations Festival Series
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Sibelius Festival
Pekka Kuusisto, violin; Thomas Dausgaard, baton
14th & 15th April
Symphony No.1; Humoresques Nos 1 & 2 for Violin and Orchestra; Symphony No. 2
17th April
Finlandia; Symphony No.3; Cantique and Devotion for Violin and Orchestra; Symphony No. 4
21st & 22nd April
Two Serenades for Violin & Orchestra; Symphonies 5, 6 & 7
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29th April & 1st May
Mendelssohn: Piano Concerto No.1; Mahler: Symphony No. 7 — Anton Kuerti, piano; Peter Oundjian, baton
26th & 27th May
Piazzolla: The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires for Violin and Orchestra; Stravinksy: Petrouchka; — Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, violin; Robert Spano, baton
Toronto is roughly 4 hours from Detroit, 5 from Cleveland and 2 from Buffalo by car. NYC is a fairly cheap plane ride away and with the current currency situation, everything is automatically 20% off. Plus, you get to USE MONOPOLY MONEY IN REAL LIFE. Now that is definitely worth the drive.
