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December 18, 2013

Concert review: This could be the Toronto Symphony’s best Messiah so far this century

2013-14 Season

John Terauds, Musical Toronto Tuesday’s first performance of the Toronto Symphony’s five-concert run of Handel’s oratorio Messiah at…

December 13, 2013

Messing with Messiah

2013-14 Season

Trish Crawford, Toronto Star Noel Edison, artistic director of the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir says he has no problem…

November 19, 2013

Toronto Mendelssohn Choir and guests make magic of Benjamin Britten cantatas

2013-14 Season

John Terauds, Musical Toronto Here’s a suggestion: If you go to one choral concert other than Messiah this…

November 1, 2013

TSO’s Carmina Burana a thrilling Halloween Musical Fare

2013-14 Season

TSO and TMC perform Carmina Burana, October 2013. Photo: Josh Clavir

Joseph So, La Scena Musicale I must give my highest praise to the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir, surely a…

October 31, 2013

Toronto Symphony Orchestra’s Carmina Burana raises Roy Thomson Hall roof

2013-14 Season

TSO and TMC perform Carmina Burana, October 2013. Photo: Josh Clavir

John Terauds, Musical Toronto The feature draw was an all-stops-pulled performance of Carl Orff’s modern classic from 1936,…

May 24, 2013

An invigorating performance: Missa Solemnis in D Major

2012-13 Season

Michael Johnson, Concertonet Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis doesn’t come around often enough, a fact that prevents it from becoming…

May 23, 2013

Concert Review: TSO speaks a little too softly with Brahms’s A German Requiem

2012-13 Season

Arthur Kaptainis, National Post Softness reigned at the start, of course, as the violas and cellos traced their…

May 23, 2013

TSO, Mendelssohn choir and soloists give Brahms his due

2012-13 Season

Photo of TMC performing with the TSO at Roy Thomson Hall. The orchestra and soloists are on stage and the Choir is in the choir loft. Peter Oundjian is on the podium conducting.

Robert Harris, The Globe and Mail And fittingly, Toronto’s Mendelssohn Choir, fresh off a performance of the Missa…

May 22, 2013

Toronto Symphony Orchestra fails to transcend minutiae in Brahms German Requiem

2012-13 Season

Photo of TMC performing with the TSO at Roy Thomson Hall. The orchestra and soloists are on stage and the Choir is in the choir loft. Peter Oundjian is on the podium conducting.

John Terauds, Musical Toronto The Toronto Mendelssohn Choir, out in full force, sang with its characteristic mix of…