Sala: Roy Thomson Hall, Toronto

The Toronto Symphony kicks off the 2025-26 season with an intriguing and exciting double bill of the very new and the very familiar. 

Kristiina Poska makes a successful Toronto debut with solid Beethoven and some spicy Caribbean fireworks from Stewart Goodyear. 

The Toronto Symphony Orchestra’s latest concert, tipped for European touring next year, fails to convince.

Despite a rousing start the touring VSO produce some understated Brahms and Shostakovich at Toronto’s Roy Thomson Hall. 

Thomas Adès serves up an astronomical programme, pairing his Piano Concerto and Paradiso with Holst’s crowd favourite, The Planets.

John Adams returns to Toronto to conduct the TSO in an exciting and varied programme marked also by the debut of Spotlight Artist Anna Prohaska. 

Gustavo Gimeno kicks off the TSO’s new season with new perspectives on the familiar and not-so-familiar

Japan’s leading composer conducted a programme that mixes concert and film music, but it was only the familiar tunes that enthuse the audience.