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Mahler’s memorable Symphony No.5 completes the evening.<br />
Grosvenor’s Return: Last month I profiled the extraordinarily<br />
talented young British pianist, Benjamin Grosvenor. His return visit to<br />
the Jane Mallett stage October13 exceeded all my expectations. For a<br />
report on the concert, please read my blog on thewholenote.com.<br />
QUICK PICKS<br />
November 5 The Cecilia Quartet’s Music Toronto concert includes<br />
Mendelssohn’s String Quartet Op.44, No.2 which is featured on<br />
their newly released Analekta CD. The quartet series continues<br />
November 26 with the Toronto debut of the young Polish ensemble,<br />
the Apollon Musagète Quartet, playing Dvořák and Schubert.<br />
November 6 Beethoven’s under-appreciated Symphony No.4 is the<br />
featured work in a diverse program by the energetic group of 27 under<br />
the direction of the effervescent Eric Paetkau that also includes works<br />
by Purcell, Burge and Glazunov.<br />
November 8 Marquis Classics recording artist, flutist Susan<br />
Hoeppner, and TSO principal oboist, Sarah Jeffrey, are joined by<br />
pianist Jeanie Chung in a program of works by Ginastera, W.F. Bach,<br />
Ibert and others in Mazzoleni Hall.<br />
November 8 The superb string trio, Trio Arkel, includes Haydn<br />
and Beethoven in its Kitchener-Waterloo Chamber Music Society<br />
(K-WCMS) recital. November 9 finds the Arkel in Heliconian Hall<br />
playing a similar program. November 12 the COC free noontime<br />
concert series features them again in the Beethoven Trio Op.9, No.3 as<br />
well as Michael Oesterle’s Warhol Dervish.<br />
November 10 Legendary musicians flutist Suzanne Shulman and<br />
harpist Erica Goodman perform “An English Midday Serenade” at<br />
McMaster University in a free lunchtime concert that includes music<br />
by Vaughan Williams, Handel and Elgar, among others.<br />
November 11 Nocturnes in the City presents the celebrated<br />
Zemlinsky String Quartet in a program of works by Dvořák, Janáček,<br />
Suk and Shostakovich<br />
November 12 The K-WCMS series continues with the Zemlinsky<br />
String Quartet. The esteemed Czech musicians include the first<br />
High School<br />
Musicality<br />
of Beethoven’s late string quartets, his Op.127, in their program.<br />
November 17 rising star violinist Francesca Anderegg gives a solo<br />
recital featuring Bach, Ysaÿe and Kreisler. November 21 the versatile<br />
Ottawa-based pianist, David Jalbert, mixes and matches Satie, Poulenc<br />
and Stravinsky in his “Soirée Parisienne.”<br />
November 12 and 14 Michael Sanderling, of the musical Sanderlings<br />
(father Kurt, brothers Thomas and Stefan) and conductor of the<br />
Dresden Philharmonic, leads the TSO in Mahler’s Symphony No.4,<br />
perhaps the composer’s most popular symphony. November 18<br />
and 19 Peter Oundjian takes back the baton for Rimsky-Korsakov’s<br />
crowd-pleasing Scheherazade, with concertmaster Jonathan Crow<br />
as violin soloist. Principal clarinetist Joaquin Valdepeñas brings his<br />
gorgeous, full tone to Weber’s Clarinet Concerto No.1. Dec 2, 3 and 5<br />
Crow returns to the spotlight for Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto, that<br />
enduring romantic icon, while Oundjian conducts another of the<br />
composer’s masterpieces, his Symphony No.6 “Pathétique.”<br />
November 14 The Dover Quartet caught everyone’s attention when<br />
they won the Grand Prize and all three Special Prizes at the 2013 Banff<br />
International String Quartet Competition. Their concert in Kingston’s<br />
Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts should be worth the trip.<br />
November 15 The Windermere String Quartet perform Russian<br />
works by Alabiev and Glinka as well as Beethoven’s great<br />
“Razumovsky” Quartet Op.59, No.2.<br />
November 25 André Laplante brings his secure pianistic sense to<br />
Schubert’s Moments Musicaux (Nos.1,2 and 6) and Three Petrarch<br />
Sonnets by Liszt as part of the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir’s “German<br />
Romantics” program.<br />
November 29 Canadian superstar violinist, James Ehnes, is the<br />
soloist in Lalo’s virtuosic Symphonie Espagnole with the Niagara<br />
Symphony Orchestra.<br />
Paul Ennis is the managing editor of The WholeNote.<br />
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