Event listing: Elgar Cello Concerto | Roy Thomson Hall | Wed 18 Sep 2013 at 20:00

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Roy Thomson Hall Toronto, Ontario, M5J 2H5, Canada

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Programme

Britten, Benjamin (1913-1976)	The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, Op.34
Elgar, Sir Edward (1857-1934)	Cello Concerto in E minor, Op.85
Dvořák, Antonín (1841-1904)	Symphony no. 7 in D minor, Op.70

Performers

Toronto Symphony Orchestra
Peter Oundjian	Conductor
Alisa Weilerstein	Cello

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A personal take: Elgar’s Cello Concerto at 100

Bachtrack, 25th October

To celebrate the centenary of Sir Edward Elgar's Cello Concerto we have asked some acclaimed cellists to share with us some of their personal memories connected to this masterpiece.

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Alisa Weilerstein enriches the opening of Peter Oundjian's tenth season with the TSO

Stanley Fefferman, 23rd September

Peter Oundjian chose to open his tenth season as Music Director of the Toronto Symphony with a work he characterized as “ebullient”, and, truth be told, under Maestro Oundjian’s baton, it bubbled like a glass of champagne.Britten’s Variations and Fugue on a theme by Purcell (1946), a.k.a.

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