Reviews

Carnegie Hall 2011

Florida Tour 2011

Carnegie Hall 2008

Carnegie Hall 2011

• Toronto Star
  John Terauds
  March 27, 2011
  "This was the program of a music director who was ready to stab his baton at the air and say, we dare you to compare us to the world’s finest orchestras."


• The New York Times
  Zachary Woolfe
  March 28, 2011
  "The orchestra sounded bright and confident."

  Read more from the New York Times in a feature about the TSO and TSO Music Director Peter Oundjian, Orchestra Back from the Brink.



• National Post
  Arthur Kaptainis
  March 27, 2011
  "Everything from the orchestra sounded deep and handsome"


• ConcertoNet.com
  Harry Rolnick
  March 28, 2011
  "... a display of orchestral virtuosity on the part of Mr. Oundjian and his people as few orchestras are capable. "

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Florida Tour 2011

• Toronto Symphony Orchestra draws cheers from southern neighbors
  Herald Tribune
  Gayle Williams
  January 11, 2011
  "Crisp, clean and refined, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, under the baton of Peter Oundjian made a memorable impression in their Sarasota appearance, part of a statewide tour by surely Canada’s finest orchestra."


• Toronto Symphony brings spontaneous fervor to Broward Center
  South Florida Classical Review
  David Fleshler
  January 12, 2011
  "...Oundjian drew a refined, sensitive performance from the orchestra."


• Toronto Symphony Orchestra gives virtuosic, fascinating concert at Kravis
  Palm Beach Daily News
  Ken Keaton
  January 13, 2011
  "These musicians gave one of the most virtuosic, fascinating performances this reviewer has ever heard..."


• Toronto Symphony Orchestra, from Festival of Orchestras
  Orlando Sentinel
  Matthew J. Palm
  January 14th, 2011
  "The warmness in all the brass playing throughout the night was a highlight of the concert, and was never displayed better than in the symphony's uplifting final movement, with its triumphant trumpet flourishes."


• James Ehnes and the TSO: Canadians on parade
  Toronto Star
  William Littler
  January 14th, 2011
  “Ehnes’s performances of the Barber have been earning him and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra standing ovations in Florida."


• TSO adapts to Florida's acoustic challenges
  National Post
  January 17th, 2011
  Arthur Kaptainis
  “After intermission came Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony, a warhorse that Oundjian approaches with rare curiosity and the TSO plays with equally rare intensity. Tempo shifts were convincing and colours were rich.”

Rave Reviews for the TSO at Carnegie Hall

• TSO receives ovation in Carnegie Hall visit
  The Globe and Mail
  By Simon Houpt
  October 6, 2008
  "A sold-out audience at Carnegie Hall leaped to its feet Saturday night and roared its approval for the Toronto Symphony Orchestra's electrifying rendition of Shostakovich's Symphony No. 11 in G Minor."


• Revolutionary Martyrs and Sinful Sisters
  The New York Times
  By Allan Kozinn
  October 5, 2008
  "Mr. Oundjian led [the Toronto Symphony Orchestra] in a wrenching, full-throttle account of Shostakovich's Symphony No. 11 on Saturday evening at Carnegie Hall, the orchestra proved to be in superb shape."


• Music As Political Passion
  ConcertoNet
  By Harry Rolnick
  October 5, 2008
  "I take no sides, except the side of Peter Oundjian, who turned the Toronto Symphony Orchestra into an ensemble which was taut, tense, and quivering with the epic breadth which the hour-long work deserves. The orchestral massacre, the long drawn-out Adagio, and the opening, with the dawn breaking over the Kremlin Square each were held as if on a ray of light."


• Big Apple can expect juicy treat
  Toronto Star
  By John Terauds
  Classical music critic
  Oct 02, 2008
  "Interesting that, at this precarious moment in economic and political time, the Toronto Symphony is heading to Carnegie Hall in New York City with a musical message condemning sloth, pride, anger, gluttony, lust, covetousness, envy and unenlightened government."