The Toronto Symphony Orchestra and Music Director Gustavo Gimeno.
In Monday’s (3/31) LudwigVan.com (Toronto), Anya Wassenberg writes, “The Toronto Symphony Orchestra has taken home JUNO hardware for their album Turangalîla-Symphonie. Recorded live in Roy Thomson Hall, the album features Messiaen’s Turangalîla-Symphonie performed by the TSO conducted by Gustavo Gimeno, with soloists Marc-André Hamelin and French ondes Martenot player Nathalie Forget. The release was the first in the TSO’s multi-year arrangement with Harmonia Mundi records, and also the orchestra’s first recording with Gimeno as Music Director. The win was announced at the 54th Annual JUNO Awards Gala held in Vancouver, BC, on Saturday, March 29, 2025.” The JUNO Awards are Canada’s equivalent to the U.S. Grammy Awards. “The other albums and artists nominated for Classical album of the year (large ensemble) include: Ispiciwin, Luminous Voices; Alikeness, Newfoundland Symphony Orchestra Sinfonia, conducted by Mark Fewer …; Sibelius 2 & 5, Orchestre Métropolitain, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin; Schoenberg: Pelleas und Melisande & Verklärte Nacht, Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, conducted by Rafael Payare…. Inuk soprano/composer Deantha Edmunds made history as the first Indigenous woman to win the JUNO Award for Classical composition of the year for her piece Angmalukisaa … a song cycle that she recorded with Newfoundland Symphony Orchestra Sinfonia, conducted by Mark Fewer.” The article lists nominees and winners for all JUNO categories this year.
