Toronto Symphony Orchestra On Demand: Vivaldi's Four Seasons now available March 26 - April15, 2021

Toronto, Ontario–March 18, 2020: The Toronto Symphony Orchestra (TSO) continues its 2020/21 season of TSO On Demand concerts with a second Masterworks program: Vivaldi’s Four Seasons (March 26 – April 15), curated by Concertmaster Jonathan Crow.

 

Year after year, season after season, the music of Vivaldi blooms in perennial splendour. Included in the Vivaldi’s Four Seasons program is music by American composer Gabriela Lena Frank and Sri Lankan–born Canadian composer Dinuk Wijeratne. Frank’s works often draw on her Peruvian-Jewish heritage, and her Leyendas: An Andean Walkabout mixes elements of Andean folk and western classical music. Wijeratne’s JUNO-winning work, Two Pop Songs on Antique Poems, fuses the rhythms of pop with classical music, and contains musical quotations from Schubert’s Death and the Maiden quartet.

 

Since launching the series this fall, the TSO has released a family concert for Halloween, a ragtime Pops concert, a Holiday Pops concert, and Masterworks concert featuring Beethoven’s Septet. 

 

Vivaldi’s Four Seasons

Release Date: Mar 26, 2021

Available Until: Apr 15, 2021

 

“Full of passionate virtuosity yet finely nuanced in his playing,” (Toronto Star) Concertmaster Jonathan Crow performs as soloist and leads his TSO colleagues in Vivaldi’s timeless The Four Seasons. He also leads two dynamic works by living composers—“Coqueteos” from Gabriela Lena Frank’s melodic Leyendas: An Andean Walkabout and Sri Lankan–born Canadian composer Dinuk Wijeratne’s poetic “A letter from the After-life” from Two Pop Songs on Antique Poems.

 

Jonathan Crow, leader & violin

 

This concert is approximately 60–75 minutes in length and features 21 musicians from the Orchestra. 

 

This recording is generously supported by Indra and Rags Davloor.

 

For the full Vivaldi’s Four Seasons program, please see TSO.CA/OnDemand.

 

Our TSO On Demand series is filmed in strict accordance with COVID-19 government restrictions for performing-arts venues, prioritizing the health and safety of artists and staff. Musicians are wearing masks, there are plexiglass barriers between brass and woodwind instruments, and all artists are two metres apart.

 

Tickets

Tickets for TSO On Demand: Vivialdi’s Four Seasons are on sale. Discounts are available to TSO subscribers and TSOUNDCHECK members. Go to TSO.CA/OnDemand or call Patron Services at 416.598.3375 (Mon–Fri, 9:00am–5:00pm).

 

To share the joy of TSO On Demand, purchase a Gift Certificate and send it to a loved one to redeem for access to the concert.

 

The Toronto Symphony Orchestra is generously supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, the Government of Canada, the Ontario Arts Council, and the Toronto Arts Council.

 

The TSO Season Presenting Sponsor is BMO Financial Group.

 

The TSO acknowledges Mary Beck as the Musicians’ Patron in perpetuity for her generous and longstanding support.