Beethoven’s Seventh
Toronto Symphony Orchestra Concertmaster Jonathan Crow takes on the fascinating Violin Concerto of György Ligeti in honour of the 100th anniversary of the composer’s birth. The work explores the outer limits of instrumental sound, combined with a hint of humour and the folk tunes of Ligeti’s native Transylvania. Opening the performance is the Canadian Première of Olga Neuwirth’s rhythmic, one-movement Dreydl, underlining the passage of time and destiny, and Beethoven’s celebratory Seventh Symphony rounds out the program with an animated, harmonically energetic interpretation of unabashed joy, one that the composer himself described as “one of the happiest products of my poor talents.”
Program
Olga Neuwirth
Dreydl (Oct 25 & 28)
Canadian Première
Ligeti
Violin Concerto
Intermission
Tansy Davies
Plumes (On October 29 Plumes will open the concert)
North American Première
Beethoven
Symphony No. 7 in A Major, Op. 92
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Performers
Gustavo Gimeno
Jonathan Crow
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