This page is a compendium of mostly free stuff so that I don’t have to keep sending emails to people event-by-event, and so that you, dear readers, don’t have to find those emails when you want them.
Last updated January 29, 2023 at 9:00 am
Recent Concerts
- University of Toronto Faculty of Music / Walter Hall
- Scott St. John, violin; Angela Park, piano; Ethan Allers, cello; Kevin Weiss, clarinet
Coming Soon
Monday, January 30
- Wigmore Hall
- Lea Desandre mezzo-soprano; Jupiter Ensemble
Monday, February 6
- Wigmore Hall
- Konstantin Krimmel baritone; Ammiel Bushakevitz piano (Avl to May 6/23)
- Brahms, Mandyczewski and R Schumann
- Konstantin Krimmel baritone; Ammiel Bushakevitz piano (Avl to May 6/23)
Friday, February 10
- Gothenburg Symphony
Sunday, February 12
- Wigmore Hall
- Christian Gerhaher baritone; Gerold Huber piano (Avl to Mar 10/23)
- Heinz Holliger, R Schumann, Schoeck and Wolf
- Christian Gerhaher baritone; Gerold Huber piano (Avl to Mar 10/23)
- Wiener Staatsoper
Monday, February 13
- Wigmore Hall
- Christian Poltéra cello; Kathryn Stott piano (Avl to May 10/23)
- Chopin and Prokofiev
- Christian Poltéra cello; Kathryn Stott piano (Avl to May 10/23)
Friday, February 17
- Wigmore Hall
- Danish String Quartet (Avl to Mar 15/23)
- Haydn, Shostakovich and folk music
- Danish String Quartet (Avl to Mar 15/23)
Saturday, February 18
- London Philharmonic (Avl to Feb 20/23)
- Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 1
Monday, February 20
- Wigmore Hall
- Jean-Efflam Bavouzet piano (Avl to May 17/23)
- Haydn
- Jean-Efflam Bavouzet piano (Avl to May 17/23)
Monday, February 27
- Wigmore Hall
- Vision String Quartet (Avl to May 24/23)
- Felix Mendelssohn and Shostakovich
- Vision String Quartet (Avl to May 24/23)
Directory
- Against The Grain Theatre
- Amici Chamber Ensemble
- Angela Hewitt
- Arts & Letters Club of Toronto
- Art of Time
- Concertgebouw Orchestra
- Daniel Hope
- Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra (Sweden)
- Holland Baroque
- Koerner Hall
- London Philharmonic Orchestra
- London Symphony Orchestra
- National Film Board
- National Theatre (UK)
- Soulpepper Theatre
- Stratford Festival
- Tafelmusik
- Tapestry Opera
- Toronto Consort
- Toronto Summer Music
- Toronto Symphony Orchestra
- Trio Arkel
- University of Toronto Faculty of Music
- Wiener Staatsoper
- Wigmore Hall (London)
Canadian Artists/Companies/Venues
Against the Grain Theatre
No current attractions.
Amici Chamber Ensemble
- Celebrating Canada with Mireille Asselin
- Bohemian Rhapsody
- Our Finest Hour
- Music by Finzi and Elgar
- Armenian Treasures
- American Berserk
- Music by John Adams, T.J. Anderson, John Corigliano and Charles Ives
Angela Hewitt
- Recital from the Chopin Institute on YouTube: Bach, Mozart & Chopin
Arts & Letters Club of Toronto
- Piano Recitals:
- Alexander Panizza plays Chopin
- Younggun Kim plays Poulenc, Albéniz, Chopin, Bach/Busoni, Piazzola
- Alexander Malikov plays Haydn and Moussorgsky
- Ben Smith plays Handel, Beethoven, Glazunov and Medtner
- Jean-Luc Therrien plays Jacques Hétu, David McIntyre (Alberta), Debussy and Liszt
Art of Time
There are many excerpts from past concerts on YouTube.
Koerner Hall / Royal Conservatory of Music
Koerner Hall has announced their 2022/23 season.
There are many concerts/recitals in their library.
National Film Board
The National Film Board has a lot of free online content including their animation page. Of course this includes the ever popular Blackberry Subway Jam.
A series of shorts on recipients of the Governor General’s Performing Arts Award:
- Congratulations, Mr. Levy celebrates the self-promoting Eugene Levy (2008)
- Brian Macdonald, Virtuoso Eclectic (2008)
- Source with Margie Gillis (2011)
- William Shatner sings O Canada with some amendments along the way (2011)
- Des McAnuff in Mise en Scène (2012)
- Eric Peterson in Canadian Famous (2013)
- Brent Carver: Home Through the Night (2014)
- Solo: A Portrait of Angela Hewitt (2018)
- Rick Mercer Take Action Figures (2019)
- The Afterlifetime of Colm Feore (2019)
Soulpepper Theatre
Soulpepper has announced their 2023 season.
Stratford Festival
Current additions:
- Three Tall Women with Martha Henry
- Available on CBC Gem and Stratfest@Home
The festival has a $10/month subscription ($11.30 with tax) available for access to much content both from their library and new productions on demand. To access this you have to create a Stratford online account.
Tafelmusik’s 2022/23 season has been announced for in-person attendance.
Tapestry Opera
- Our Song D’Hiver with Mireille Asselin and Frédéric Lacroix
Toronto Consort / Early Music TV
The Toronto Consort’s 2022/23 season has been announced for in-person attendance. Concerts will be recorded and streamed on Early Music TV (paid service).
Toronto Summer Music
Some 2020 and 2021 concerts remain available online.
Toronto Symphony Orchestra
The TSO has announced its 2022/23 season.
Trio Arkel
Trio Arkel has resumed live performances with no seating restrictions. They will no longer be streaming concerts, but will provide excerpts on their website. Some performances from past concerts are available there.
Their program La Bonne Chanson is available for free viewing.
- Russell Braun, Carolyn Maule, Rémi Pelletier and Erika Raum as well as Trio Arkel’s Marie Berard and Winona Zelenka in a program of Beethoven, Vaughan Williams, Shostakovich and Fauré.
University of Toronto Faculty of Music
- Vocal Master Class with Adrianne Pieczonka
- Vocal Master Classes with Joyce DiDonato:
- Winners’ Recital of the Norcop and Koldofsky prizes:
- Alex Hetherington, mezzo-soprano and Dakota Scott-Digout, piano
- Katy Clark & Jialiang Zhu
- Maeve Palmer & Joel Goodfellow
- Vocal Master Classes with Susan Graham
USA Artists/Companies/Venues
Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival
The festival for 2022 is now complete.
Across the Pond
Concertgebouw Orchestra
There is a large library of free concerts available from the Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam including a performance conducted by the TSO’s music director, Gustavo Gimeno. Note that you will have to first create an account on their site to access the older material, but after that it’s a big collection including the complete Mahler symphonies.
Daniel Hope
- Hope at Home with Sting and others
- Available to Mar 11/23 on arte
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra
The GSO has a page with both their upcoming concerts …
- Feb 10/23: Debussy & Ravel
- Mar 9/23: Shostakovich: The Leningrad Symphony
- Apr 1/23: Barbara Hannigan: Ligeti, Messiaen & Stravinsky
- May 11/23: Nicola Benedetti
… and links to many previously archived ones.
- Weill: Concerto for Violin & Wind Orchestra (Avl to Feb 5/23)
- Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis (Avl to Feb 15/23)
- Poulenc: Concerto for organ, strings and timpani (Avl to Feb 15/23)
- Korngold Violin Concerto (Avl to Feb 28/23)
- Mahler: Symphony No. 5 (Avl to Mar 20/23)
- Dvorák: Symphony No. 7 (Avl to Apr 11)
Holland Baroque
- Violinist Aislinn Nosky and Holland Baroque play a program of music by Telemann in the Polish style.
- Bach: Art of Fugue arranged for string quartet and harpsichord
London Philharmonic Orchestra
A series of concerts is available free on Marquee TV for 48 hours after initial posting. You must create a free account on Marquee TV to watch.
- February 18/23: Rachmaninoff’s First
- March 11/23: Gardner conducts Elgar
- April 15/23: Gardner conducts Rachmaninoff
- May 13/23: Tchaikovsky’s Fifth
- June 3/23: Don Quixote Rides Again
- June 24/23: Mahler’s Fifth
London Symphony Orchestra
Streamed concert dates via YouTube have been announced:
- October 14/22
- Clarence Cameron White: Levee Dance
- Amy Beach: Romance op 23
- Josef Suk: Four pieces for violin & piano op 17
Other concerts are available via paid streams.
National Theatre
The National Theatre in London, UK, has an NT at Home program allowing subscription access to their library of plays with a choice of monthly or a discounted annual payment. Recent additions to the online library are Hamlet and Frankenstein (both casts), Ian McKellen On Stage, and Lear with McKellen in the lead role.
Wiener Staatsoper
To view screenings from the Staatsoper, you must create an account, but then they are free. Normally they are available only for a day or so. Current listings are on their calendar page.
Wigmore Hall
You will need to create an account to watch stuff from Wigmore Hall, but it’s free! The fall 2022 streaming list is now available here.
Time Limited Streams
- Tim Mead countertenor; Laurence Cummings harpsichord; Jonathan Manson cello (Avl to Jan 29/23)
- A Scarlatti, Bononcini, Caldara and Handel
- Gweneth Ann Rand soprano; Allyson Devenish piano; Elizabeth Kenny lute, theorbo; Alice Zawadzki vocals, violin (Avl to Feb 3/23)
- Cinquecento (Avl to Feb 5/23)
- Songs for Troubled Times – Music from Reformation England
- Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective (Avl to Feb 10/23)
- Berlioz, Bonis, Fauré, Gaubert and Saint-Saëns
- Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective (Avl to Feb 10/23)
- Duruflé, Hahn, Saint-Saëns and Tailleferre
- Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective (Avl to Feb 11/23)
- Coleridge-Taylor and Vaughan Williams
- Calidore String Quartet (Avl to Feb 12/23)
- Beethoven and Smetana
- Shani Diluka, piano: Beethoven, Grieg and Liszt (Avl to Feb 15)
- The King’s Singers (Avl to Feb 19/23)
- Kirill Gerstein: Bussoni & Liszt (Avl to Feb 21/23)
- Pavel Haas Quartet; Owen Gunnell percussion (Avl to Feb 22/23)
- Haas, Haydn and Prokofiev
- Andrei Ioniţă cello; Naoko Sonoda piano (Avl to Feb 26/23)
- Beethoven, Britten and Webern
- William Thomas bass; Malcolm Martineau piano (Avl to Mar 8/23)
- Schubert, Strauss and Wolf
- Christian Tetzlaff violin; Florian Donderer violin; Timothy Ridout viola; Tanja Tetzlaff cello; Kiveli Dörken piano (Avl to Mar 9/23)
- Dvořák and Suk
- Manchester Collective: A Little Requiem
- Busoni, Copland and Górecki
- Pavel Kolesnikov piano
- Bach, R Schumann, Schubert and Thomas Adès
- Carolyn Sampson soprano; La Folia Barockorchester
- Cleopatra
- Christian Blackshaw: Mozart
- Paul Watkins cello; Huw Watkins piano (Avl to Mar 30/23)
- Debussy, Fauré, Michael Zev Gordon and R Schumann
- Sir Stephen Hough piano; Ailish Tynan soprano; Ema Nikolovska mezzo-soprano; Nicky Spence tenor; James Newby baritone; Alisdair Hogarth piano (Avl to Mar 30/23)
- Amjad Ali Khan sarod; Anubrata Chatterjee tabla
- Morning Ragas
- Mithras Trio (Avl to April 6/23)
- Beethoven, Bridge and Joy Lisney
- Yunchan Lim piano: Bach, Beethoven and Thomas Adès (Avl to Apr 17)
- Doric String Quartet: Beethoven & Haydn (Avl to Apr 22)
Plus many more in their library
Steve Munro 