Tune in to Radio 2 all day on Sunday, Dec. 18, for Joy to the World, the annual live broadcast of seasonal music from the European Broadcasting Union. We know this broadcast event has become tremendously popular with the Radio 2 audience over the years. (It first appeared on our airwaves back in 1996.) It's expected there will be over 3 million people tuning in around the world.
Joy to the World gets underway at 9 a.m. (9:30 NT) and runs through to 6 p.m. (6:30 NT). Peter Togni is your guide again this year to a musical journey through eight European countries (with a layover in Montreal!). To aid you on your travels, we have prepared an interactive map to enhance your listening experience. Each of our concerts is marked on the map, and if you click on the marker you'll get more information about the artists, cities, venues and more.
CBC Radio 2 is proud to present the return of Joy to the World, the day-long broadcast of Christmas concerts from the European Broadcasting Union (EBU.) It all starts tomorrow, Sunday December 18th, at 9 AM (9:30 NT) and continues through to 6 PM (6:30 NT.)
Peter Togni, host of Choral Concert on CBC Radio 2, will host this special broadcast that features concerts from Finland, the Netherlands, Latvia, Iceland, Estonia, Denmark, the Czech Republic, Ireland, and, yes... Canada!
That's Peter Togni, Choral Concert host and your guide to Joy To The World, a special day of music programming on Sunday. He's got the enviable (if nerve-racking) task of presenting each concert as it comes to us live over the EBU network.
It's that time again! The beloved European Broadcast Union (EBU) and CBC tradition, "Joy To The World," happens Sunday, December 18th.
The day-long broadcast of Christmas and other seasonal music from around the world features both choral and instrumental music, coming to you from a wide range of international ensembles.
You can hear Joy To The World starting at 9 a.m. (9:30 NT) on the 18th, and continuing for nine straight hours. Our own Choral Concert host Peter Togni is your guide to this annual extravaganza of holiday music.
Posted by Matthew McFarlane on Dec- 9-11 at 9:00 AM
What happens when you take two beloved carols and blend them together? You get "Cracked Up Carols"!
CBC Music producers Matthew McFarlane and Matthew Baird came up with carol mashups that just might become Christmas classics, (one can hope, anyway!) and Vancouver's vocal chamber ensemble musica intima took the CBC challenge to bring these mashups to wonderful musical light.
Small ideas sometimes take on a life of their own.
One fine day, Washington, D.C.-born Symphony Nova Scotia oboist Brian James thought it would be nice to have an all-Nova Scotian rendition of the national anthem available for all of the province's schools to use.
Happy 75th to us, and to you, with the musical gift of Canada In Concert. It's an eight-hour broadcast celebrating CBC's 75th anniversary. You can hear it in all its magnificence on Sunday October 30th, (preempting usual programming), from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on CBC Radio 2 and Espace Musique.
Bill Richardson hosts this musical marathon of concerts recorded across the country from coast to coast, and what you'll hear is really something of an embarrassment of riches, featuring so many of Canada's leading ensembles and soloists.
Then there's Suzie LeBlanc with the Tempest Baroque Ensemble, and some of the country's best choral ensembles in a concert from Vancouver featuring the work of Canadian composers.
From Banff, Alberta, there's the Cecilia Quartet and friends and from Ottawa, an intimate recital with two Canadian classical superstars - violinist James Ehnes and the brilliant young pianist Jan Lisiecki. Also, from Winnipeg, performances from the 2011 Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra New Music Festival.
So those are just some of the highlights; please keep reading for complete details of the hourly broadcasts:
If there is any musical practice that reinforces the idea that choirs are the soul of our communities, choral music is it. In every place on earth, people join together to blend their voices in song.
And Choral Concert is, as always, pleased to introduce you to choral music you may not have heard before. For instance today with the Georgian trio Zari, who stretch your ears into new places, with sounds that just go to places our western ears don't normally go.
It will always remain a "Where were you when you heard the news?" moment, the kind of memory you cannot escape. But while what happened on September 11th, 2001, is indelible in many of our minds, it is also possible to note the day -- this tenth anniversary of the worst terrorist act in U.S. history - with hope.
Hope, for instance, that there have been some positive changes since then: a greater awareness of many issues, a keener sense of the importance of working for the positive greater good, in whatever capacity you are able.
At least, that's what some believe. Among them are many musicians, artists who continue to create beautiful music no matter what, since music is, as we all know, both cathartic and healing.
The 9/11 Concert of Hope and Remembrance will take place on the outdoor terrace of the National Arts Centre. It's an hour-long concert timed to coincide with when the first plane crashed into New York's World Trade Centre. Peter Oundjian, music director of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, will conduct the NAC Orchestra. The Christ Church Cathedral Choir of Men and Boys, conducted by Matthew Larkin, will also be on hand to lend their beautiful voices. Our own Peter Togni is the radio host of the event.
Finally, the day is here. Today the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal (OSM) inaugurates its new home, La Maison symphonique de Montréal, with a concert featuring Beethoven's 9th Symphony. AND it's a concert you can hear live tonight, in various configurations on all platforms of CBC/Radio-Canada. For details, read on.
From centuries-old choral traditions to contemporary innovations, host Peter Togni explores all facets of choral music, through recordings and concerts.
It's that time again! The beloved 
Small ideas sometimes take on a life of their own.
Happy 75th to us, and to you, with the musical gift of Canada In Concert. It's an eight-hour broadcast celebrating 
It will always remain a "Where were you when you heard the news?" moment, the kind of memory you cannot escape. But while what happened on September 11th, 2001, is indelible in many of our minds, it is also possible to note the day -- this tenth anniversary of the worst terrorist act in U.S. history - with hope. 
Finally, the day is here. Today the 
