Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts

Programme includes:

Chopin             Piano Concerto no. 1 in E Minor, arr. Sylvia Maessen

Spohr              Nonet in F, op. 31

A Tafelmusik first! Celebrate the 200th anniversary of Chopin’s birth with Tafelmusik and Janina Fialkowska – “a born Chopin interpreter” (Arthur Rubinstein). Ms. Fialkowska performs Chopin’s Piano Concerto no. 1 in E Minor on a 19th-century Pleyel Piano in a new arrangement for chamber ensemble by Dutch composer Sylvia Maessen,

“ … none has taken my breath away quite like Fialkowska. If you have the chance to hear her, cancel all other appointments.”            — Evening Standard ( London), May, 2010

Programme includes:

J.F. Fasch                                            Orchestral suite in D Minor

Francesco Bartolomeo Conti              Cantata “ Fra queste umbrose piante”
(Shannon Mercer, soprano)

Georg Philipp Telemann                      Concerto for 2 chalumeaux in D Minor

                                                            (Eric Hoeprich & Colin Savage, chalumeaux)

Johann Fasch                                      Concerto for chalumeau in B-flat Major
(Eric Hoeprich, chalumeau)

Handel                                                  Suite of arias & dances from Il pastor fido
(Shannon Mercer, soprano)

Vivaldi                                                   Concerto for 2 oboes & 2 clarinets in C Major, RV560 (John Abberger & Marco Cera oboes; Eric Hoeprich & Colin Savage, clarinets)