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Curated Series Revel in the ultimate symphony experience, with Curated Series ranging from three to five concerts. 2018/19 Curated Series 13 pre-selected packages CONCERTS MASTERWORKS WEEKEND CLASSICS W1 W2 W3 T1 T2 T3 F1 S1 S2 S3 GW CE CM Wednesday 1 Wednesday 2 Wednesday 3 Thursday 1 Thursday 2 Thursday 3 Friday Saturday 1 FALL 2018 Saturday 2 Saturday 3 Three at the Weston 3 CONCERTS Saturday Evening 4 CONCERTS Sunday Matinee 3 CONCERTS Symphonie Fantastique SEP 20 SEP 21 Romantic Rachmaninoff SEP 26 SEP 29 SEP 29 Mahler 5 OCT 3 OCT 4 Dvořák New World OCT 13 OCT 14 Debussy La Mer OCT 18 OCT 20 Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty OCT 24 OCT 25 OCT 27 OCT 28 Britten War Requiem NOV 8 NOV 10 Boléro NOV 21 NOV 23 NOV 24 WINTER 2019 Sibelius 2 JAN 10 JAN 12 JAN 13 Mozart with Zukerman JAN 16 JAN 18 Brahms & Dvořák FEB 6 FEB 7 Barbara Hannigan Conducts Gershwin FEB 13 FEB 14 Alisa Weilerstein FEB 20 FEB 21 Romantic Chopin FEB 23 Shostakovich 5 MAR 9 MAR 10 SPRING 2019 Schubert's Unfinished MAR 27 MAR 28 Beethoven Eroica APR 10 APR 12 APR 13 Mahler Resurrection APR 17 APR 18 APR 20 APR 20 Beethoven 5 MAY 12 MAY 11 Mahler 7 MAY 15 MAY 16 Pines of Rome MAY 24 MAY 25 MAY 25 Denk Plays Mozart MAY 29 MAY 30 Brahms 4 JUN 5 JUN 6 JUN 8 Carmina Burana JUN 19 JUN 20 JUN 22 The Firebird JUN 29 JUN 30
Masterworks at a glance Add extra concerts to your package at subscriber preferred pricing and reserve the best seats before the general public. Symphonie Fantastique T1 F1 September 20 & 22 at 8:00 pm September 21 at 7:30 pm Dvořák New World CE CM Beethoven: Overture to Fidelio Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini José Evangelista: Symphonie minute Dvořák: No. 9 From the New World Sir Andrew Davis Debussy La Mer T3 S2 October 18 & 20 at 8:00pm Thomas Søndergård, conductor Baiba Skride, violin Romantic Rachmaninoff W1 S2 S3 September 26 & 29 at 8:00 pm September 27 at 8:00pm includes a pre-concert performance by The TSO Chamber Soloists at 6:45pm Kirill Karabits, conductor Nicola Benedetti, violin Valentin Silvestrov: Serenade for String Orchestra Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 2 Rachmaninoff: No. 3 W2 T1 Pinchas Zukerman, conductor & violin Tchaikovsky s The Nutcracker & More S1 GW Tchaikovsky: Selections from The Nutcracker Tchaikovsky: No. 4 Messiah December 17, 18, 19 & 22 at 8:00 pm December 21 at 7:30 pm December 23 at 3:00 pm Andrey Boreyko, conductor Alina Ibragimova, violin Handel: Messiah Nikolai Korndorf: The Smile of Maud Lewis Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto Tchaikovsky/arr. Andrey Boreyko: Suite from The Sleeping Beauty Pinchas Zukerman Sir Andrew Davis Conducts Wagner T2 S3 November 8 at 8:00 pm November 10 at 8:00 pm includes a pre-concert performance by The TSO Chamber Soloists at 6:45pm Britten: War Requiem Mahler 5 W3 T2 Lise Davidsen, soprano Simon O Neill, tenor Brindley Sherratt, bass Berg: Three Pieces for Orchestra Wagner: Act I of Die Walküre Claire de Sévigné Sibelius 2 T2 S1 GW David Robertson, conductor Leila Josefowicz, violin October 3 & 4 at 8:00 pm Han-Na Chang, conductor Javier Perianes, piano Ravel: Piano Concerto in G Mahler: No. 5 January 31 at 8:00pm February 2 at 8:00pm January 10 & 12 at 8:00 pm January 13 at 3:00 pm at George Weston Recital Hall, Toronto Centre for the Arts Nicola Benedetti Benjamin Britten Mozart: Overture to The Marriage of Figaro, K. 492 Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 5, K. 219 Turkish Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 3, K. 216 Mozart: No. 35, K. 385 Haffner November 28 & 29 at 8:00 pm November 30 at 7:30 pm December 2 at 3:00 pm Johannes Debus, conductor Soloists include: Claire de Sévigné, soprano Andrew Haji, tenor Bramwell Tovey, conductor Tatiana Pavlovskaya, soprano Toby Spence, tenor Russell Braun, baritone Toronto Children s Chorus W3 F1 January 16, 17, 18 & 19 at 8:00pm John Adams: City Noir (TSO Co-commission) Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4 Ravel: Boléro October 24, 25 & 27 at 8:00pm October 28 at 3:00pm at George Weston Recital Hall, Toronto Centre for the Arts Britten War Requiem Mozart with Zukerman Earl Lee, conductor Thomas Adès: Dances from Powder Her Face Britten: Violin Concerto Poulenc: Les animaux modèles Debussy: La mer Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty S1 John Storgårds, conductor Kirill Gerstein, piano Aziz Shokhakimov, conductor George Li, piano Berlioz: Fantasy on Shakespeare s The Tempest from Lélio, or The Return to Life Hétu: Variations concertantes (TSO Commission) Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique W1 F1 November 21 & 24 at 8:00 pm November 23 at 7:30 pm October 13 at 7:30pm October 14 at 3:00pm Boléro Weill: Suite from The Threepenny Opera Stravinsky: Violin Concerto Sibelius: No. 2 Brahms & Dvořák February 6, 7 & 9 at 8:00pm Jonathan Crow, violin Joseph Johnson, cello Morawetz: Carnival Overture* Brahms: Double Concerto Dvořák: No. 6 * Toronto Youth Orchestra performs with the TSO W2 T3
Contact us to order Online: TSO.CA/Subscribe By phone: 416.598.3375 In person: TSO Patron Services Centre (500-145 Wellington St. W.) Barbara Hannigan W1 T1 Conducts Gershwin February 13 at 8:00pm February 14 at 8:00pm includes a pre-concert performance by The TSO Chamber Soloists at 6:45pm Barbara Hannigan, conductor & soprano Kelly Zimba, flute Debussy: Syrinx for Solo Flute Sibelius: Luonnotar for Soprano and Orchestra Haydn: No. 86 Berg: Suite from Lulu Gershwin/arr. Bill Elliot: Suite from Girl Crazy Romantic Chopin S2 February 23 at 8:00pm Alexander Shelley, conductor David Fray, piano Yosuke Kawasaki, violin Jessica Linnebach, violin Jocelyn Morlock: Cobalt Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 2 Schumann: No. 1 Spring Shostakovich CE CM 5 March 9 at 7:30pm March 10 at 3:00pm Gemma New, conductor Kelly Zimba, flute Heidi Van Hoesen Gorton, harp Abigail Richardson-Schulte: GO! for Orchestra Mozart: Concerto for Flute and Harp, K. 297c Shostakovich: No. 5 Mahler Resurrection W2 April 17 & 18 at 8:00 pm April 20 at 7:30 pm T3 S2 S3 Juanjo Mena, conductor Joélle Harvey, soprano Marie-Nicole Lemieux, contralto Amadeus Choir Elmer Iseler Singers Mahler: No. 2 Resurrection Beethoven 5 CE GW May 11 at 8:00pm May 12 at 3:00pm at George Weston Recital Hall, Toronto Centre for the Arts Nicholas Collon, conductor Shai Wosner, piano Program includes: Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 21, K. 467 Beethoven: No. 5 Brahms 4 W2 T2 S2 June 5, 6 & 8 at 8:00pm Karl-Heinz Steffens, conductor Jan Lisiecki, piano Schumann: Overture to Manfred Mendelssohn: Piano Concerto No. 1 Brahms: No. 4 Jan Lisiecki Carmina Burana June 19, 20 & 22 at 8:00pm June 23 at 3:00pm W1 T3 S3 Barbara Hannigan Alisa Weilerstein W3 T2 February 20 & 21 at 8:00pm Thomas Dausgaard, conductor Alisa Weilerstein, cello Langgaard: Prelude to Antikrist Shostakovich: Cello Concerto No. 2 Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra Schubert's Unfinished March 27 & 28 at 8:00pm Günther Herbig, conductor Schubert: No. 8 Unfinished Bruckner: No. 9 W2 T1 Beethoven Eroica W3 F1 S1 April 10 & 13 at 8:00 pm April 12 at 7:30 pm includes a pre-concert performance by The TSO Chamber Soloists at 6:15pm Louis Langrée, conductor Christian Tetzlaff, violin Debussy: Prélude à l après-midi d un faune Szymanowski: Violin Concerto No. 1 Beethoven: No. 3 Eroica Mahler 7 May 15 & 16 at 8:00pm Louis Lortie, piano Chan Ka Nin: My Most Beautiful, Wonderful, Terrific, Amazing, Fantastic, Magnificent Homeland: Sesquie for Canada s 150th (TSO Co-commission) Franck: Symphonic Variations for Piano and Orchestra Mahler: No. 7 W1 T1 Pines of Rome F1 May 24 & 25 at 8:00pm Louis Lortie, piano Rossini: Overture to William Tell Saint-Saëns: Piano Concerto No. 4 Jordan Pal: New Work (World Première) Respighi: Pines of Rome S1 S3 Donald Runnicles, conductor Soloists include: James Ehnes, violin Nicole Haslett, soprano Sunnyboy Dladla, tenor Toronto Children s Chorus Korngold: Violin Concerto Orff: Carmina Burana Sunnyboy Dladla The Firebird June 29 at 7:30pm June 30 at 3:00pm CE CM Denk Plays Mozart W3 T3 May 29 & June 1 at 8:00pm May 31 at 7:30pm May 30 at 8:00pm includes a pre-concert performance by The TSO Chamber Soloists at 6:45pm Gustavo Gimeno, conductor Jonathan Crow, violin Sibelius: Violin Concerto Prokofiev: Classical Stravinsky: Suite from The Firebird (1945 revision) Jeremy Denk, leader & piano Program includes: Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 19, K. 459 Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 25, K. 503 MASTERWORKS WEEKEND CLASSICS Alisa Weilerstein Christian Tetzlaff SPECIALS
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