Name: Voices Across the Atlantic
Start: 2019-07-18T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2019-07-18T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Church of the Redeemer

Organization

Admin

Toronto Summer Music Festival

Conductor

Daniel Taylor

Instrumentalist

Steven Philcox

Harpsichord

Others

Toronto Summer Music Fellows

Tenor

Charles Daniels

Pianist

Piano

Singer

Countertenor

Voices Across the Atlantic

Toronto

Canada

Church of the Redeemer

Public

Dover Beach, op. 3

Four quartets, op. 92

Canticle II, op. 51 ("Abraham and Isaac")

Canticle IV 'The Journey of the Magi', Op 86

Madrigals

Santiago Martin Bermejo

Approved

Daniel Taylor – one of the most sought-after countertenors in the world (“Beauty of his voice will stop you in your tracks.” – Gramophone magazine) – and who has more than 100 CD recordings to his credit – presides as vocalist and conductor over this absorbing concert. It boldly crosses national borders and spans centuries of music and texts, from the enchanting madrigals of the seventeenth-century Italian master, Claudio Monteverdi, through the lovely Vocal Quartets of German composer Johannes Brahms, to two of the fascinating Canticles that England’s Benjamin Britten created from 1947 to 1974. Scored for voices and small instrumental ensembles, these two Canticles meditate on loss (Still falls the rain, 1954, with text by Edith Sitwell) and the Nativity of Jesus (The Journey of the Magi, 1971, on a poem by T.S. Eliot). American composer Samuel Barber’s Dover Beach (1931) is a warmly emotional setting for voice and strings of a mid-nineteenth-century poem by English author Matthew Arnold.   

Limited tickets available. Reception included after the performance.

English

Voices Across the Atlantic by Barber, Brahms, Britten, Monteverdi, From (2019/2019), Conductor Daniel Taylor, Church of the Redeemer, Toronto, Canada

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Instrumentation

Ensemble

Programme, About & Synopsis

Photos

Further reading

Performance Dates & Venues

Venues