Media Reviews
| Jan 4, 2010 | Unseen City: Roy Thomson Hall |
| Dec 16, 2011 | Tafelmusik the victor in this year’s Messiah duel |
| Dec 15, 2011 | Toronto Symphony Messiah elegant but lacking in emotional power |
| Nov 10, 2011 | The Toronto Mendelssohn Choir and Koerner Hall are a match made in heaven and the concert called A Night of Brahms was inspired music. |
| Oct 6, 2011 | Dramatic and powerful choral music drawing younger audiences Grand symphonic choruses, the staple of the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir for 116 years, are coming back into favour, says conductor and artistic director Noel Edison. |
| Sept 22 , 2011 | Christopher Plummer moves audience in voice of many characters No matter how old the music or the performer, a concert needs to feel like it’s coming to life in the moment if it’s going to move its audience. |
| May 26, 2011 | Singing for the trill of it I like to sing. So it seemed natural when I saw the listing in our online community calendar for the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir's Singsation event, where for 10 bucks you could come out and sing Gilbert and Sullivan. I knew I needed to go. |
| May 12, 2011 | Toronto Mendelssohn Choir goes big and bold for Mozart Mozart is one of those composers musicians look to for box-office safety. And Salzburg's famous son didn't let down the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir (TMC) on Wednesday night: the choir's all-Mozart program filled the Royal Conservatory's Koerner Hall to the rafters. |
| April 22, 2011 | Sacred Music for a Sacred Space: a wonderfully varied and thought-
provoking program The Toronto Mendelssohn Choir, founded in 1894, is one of the mainstays of Toronto's musical life. |
| March 04, 2011 | Mendelssohn Choir puts passion in Bach masterwork |
| December 18, 2010 | TSO's Messiah a toe-tapping modern take on a hallowed masterpiece Sir Andrew Davis's orchestral tarting-up of Handel's Messiah, which premiered Thursday night at Toronto's Roy Thomson Hall, is nothing if not sprightly. |
| December 17, 2010 | Messiah make-over is a lark Thursday marked the premiere, in Roy Thomson Hall, of Handel's Messiah as orchestrated by Sir Andrew Davis. Either that or a heretofore undiscovered 18th-century edition of Babes in Toyland. Whatever it was, it made for an entertaining evening. Even if you say solemn prayers daily at the altar of authenticity, you need to hear one of the repeat performances (the last is Tuesday). |
| December 17, 2010 | Handel's Messiah To say that Sir Andrew Davis' new arrangement of Handel's Messiah for the Toronto Symphony Orchestra is eccentric is an understatement. |
| December 17, 2010 | Toronto Symphony Orchestra's Messiah a modern dream come true Toronto Symphony Orchestra music director emeritus, Sir Andrew Davis, has taken Messiah aside, given it a total makeover, and trotted it out in face-lifted glory, for all of Toronto to behold. |
| December 8, 2010 | Voices of Christmas: pum, pum, prum, pum, pum, prum |
| October 7, 2010 | Mendelssohn Choir brimming with rousing, diverse works As it celebrates its 117th season, the Toronto Mendelsssohn Choir is not beyond learning new tricks. This grande dame of symphonic sound - Canada's oldest cultural institution - continues to add venues, themes, arrangements and voices to its presentation of rousing choral works. |
| September 25, 2010 | TSO opens season with Mahler magic |
| September 24, 2010 | TSO's rousing finale saves the concert |
| April 5, 2010 | Toronto Mendelssohn choir - Sacred Music for a Sacred Space Toronto Mendelssohn Choir's Good Friday concert, Sacred Music for a Sacred Space, was held at St. Paul's Basilica, one of the most beautiful churches in the city with wonderfully resonant acoustics. |
| February 19, 2010 | Verdi's Requiem: Music to put grief counsellors out of work Simply put, this is one of the most soul-stirring evenings anyone is likely to have in town this season. |
| February 01, 2010 | Size matters, but soloists also shine With an orchestra of 170, eight soloists and a chorus of 850 (350 of them children), the triumphant first performance of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 8 merited its title, "Symphony of a Thousand." Mahler may have felt the nickname belittled the composition, but there's no getting away from it: Size does define the symphony. |
| January 31, 2010 | Mahler's magnificence evident in VSO's performance of Eighth Symphony Under the direction of Bramwell Tovey, Saturday's reading had it all. |
| December 18, 2009 | Toronto Symphony Orchestra – Handel's Messiah There is something fitting about arriving home from Israel in the morning and attending the TSO's Messiah in the evening. More to the point, there are many reasons to be joyous about this all-Canadian cast performance. |
| December 17, 2009 | There's cause to rejoice when Handel's Messiah returns That George Frideric Handel's greatest oratorio, Messiah, is still enjoyed as much today as it was 267 years ago is a bit of a miracle. That Toronto consistently gets fine performances such as this one by the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and Mendelssohn Choir year after year is even more wonderful. |
| November 13, 2009 | Britten's Requiem remembers the lost and deplores the cost Benjamin Britten's War Requiem, though it had its first performance in Coventry Cathedral in 1961, is not really a religious work so much as a fiercely political pacifist theatre piece. |
| November 12, 2009 | A noble musical Remembrance The Toronto Symphony Orchestra and its approximately 200 vocal guests in the choir galleries found a way to mark Remembrance Day that was dignified, deep, meaningful and uplifting. |
| October 28, 2009 | Toronto Mendelssohn Choir blows the roof off of Koerner Hall What a revelation to hear a GF Handel oratorio - not the Messiah - in its entirety. You rediscover what a genius composer Handel was. |
| October 26, 2009 | Thrills and Chills at Koerner Hall The Toronto Mendelssohn Choir provided a rich, brisk, often thrilling choral evening in George Frideric Handel's fierce, relatively brief biblical oratorio Israel in Egypt, Saturday night at the Royal Conservatory of Music's classy new Koerner Hall. |
| October 26, 2009 | Triumphant Opener for Mendelssohn Choir It's hard to imagine that its Massey Hall debut could have been any better than its performance of George Frideric Handel's oratorio Israel in Egypt at Koerner Hall on Saturday night. |
| May 11, 2009 | Musicians match power and passion of Elijah The prophet Elijah was such an important figure in 9th century B.C.E. Middle Eastern history that he figures in Hebrew, Christian and Muslim scripture. |
| May 11, 2009 | A passionate delivery The Toronto Mendelssohn Choir gave the oratorio Elijah by their namesake a passionate delivery. |
| March 23, 2008 | Ken Winters Review Bach’s Mass in B minor is surely the loftiest and most elaborately conceived work of its kind ever written. |
| Sept 21, 2007 | Pleasures within the limits of the middlebrow The TSO's performance with the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir and Canadian Children's Opera Company was always best when Orff was at his most robust. |
| Sept 21, 2007 | TSO lets the choirs sing Hundreds of people arrayed on and around the stage Wednesday night to launch the Toronto Symphony Orchestra music season at Roy Thomson Hall did themselves proud |
| May 13, 2007 | Rare performance hits the high notes - Globe and Mail Update The Toronto Mendelssohn Choir devoted the last concert of its current season to the music of Mendelssohn and Brahms. |
| May 10, 2007 | Light bulb goes off for Edison After meeting with the world's masters, musical director realized grass 'never greener anywhere else' |
