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07/16/2009

Live treats on 'Net today and tomorrow from Verbier Festival

The Verbier International Festival gets underway in Switzerland today, and, as the site did last year, www.medici.tv is broadcsting key performances online, for free. The festival runs to Aug. 2, and there's at least one musical treat a day worth catching on your favourite computer.

The opening concert, which starts at 7 p.m. GMT, features fabulous violinist Vadim Repin (no stranger to Toronto Symphony Orchestra audiences) performing one of his signature works, Dmitri Shostakovich's Violin Concerto.

Charles Dutoit leads the Verbier Festival orchestra. The program also includes Richard Strauss's Alpine Symphony and Mozart's ever-popular Symphony No. 40.

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The program I really want to catch is tomorrow's eclectic combination of Mozart's Laudate Dominum and Gabriel Fauré's Requiem (among some other works), featuring ultra-talented young French conductor Jean-François Spinosi and soprano Sandrine Piau (who is, at long last, getting some recognition on this side of the Atlantic -- Carnegie Hall has announced that she will make her New York recital début this fall.)

Posted by John Terauds at 07:59:25 AM in Current Affairs, Europe, Symphony, Violin, Voice, Web/Tech

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John Terauds started at the Toronto Star as a freelance writer in 1988, and has been on staff since 1997. He began writing on classical music in 2001, and has been the full-time classical music critic since 2005.

He is also the organist and choir director at St. Peter's Anglican Church, a parish founded in 1863 in downtown Toronto.

If he's not listening to, writing about or playing music, it means he's either asleep, unconscious, walking his dog -- or all of the above.

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