| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 26-Oct-2012 The Royal Conservatory of Music, TELUS Centre, Koerner Hall | The sound of greatness: Valery Gergiev and the Stradivarius Ensemble at Toronto's Koerner Hall |
 The Mariinsky Orchestra are great, because Valery Gergiev arranges a schedule that only the great could sustain. In the two weeks before they arrived in Toronto, his musicians played six performances of Swan Lake in Berkeley, California. Then Gergiev took them back to St Petersburg (October 15–23) to play the operas Boris Godunov and Aida. Their current Canada/US tour brings 28 of the orchestra’s core strings, renowned as the Stradivarius Ensemble, to five cities in six days, beginning this Friday in Toronto’s acoustic wonder, Koerner Hall.
Read full review... | |
