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

Arthur Kaptainis, National Post

Softness reigned at the start, of course, as the violas and cellos traced their lines with the audio equivalent of a dotted line and the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir whispered “Selig sind” with the utmost intimacy. There were sturdy fugues and stirring outbursts to come, but the 145 choristers as prepared by Noel Edison made their effect more with quiet expression than with force.

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