{"id":100713,"date":"2023-12-04T09:35:01","date_gmt":"2023-12-04T14:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/?p=100713"},"modified":"2023-12-04T11:03:41","modified_gmt":"2023-12-04T16:03:41","slug":"critics-picks-classical-music-events-absolutely-need-see-week-dec-4-dec-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2023\/12\/04\/critics-picks-classical-music-events-absolutely-need-see-week-dec-4-dec-10\/","title":{"rendered":"CRITIC\u2019S PICKS | Classical Music Events You Absolutely Need To See This Week: Dec. 4 \u2013 Dec. 10"},"content":{"rendered":"
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St\u00e9phane T\u00e9treault (Photo: Luc Robitaille); The TMChoir & the TMSingers (Photo: Brian Summers); George Frederick Handel by painter Thomas Hudson (RCIN 400960\/Royal Collection\/Public domain)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This is a list of concerts we are attending, wishing we could attend, or thinking about attending between Dec. 4 and Dec. 10, 2023. For more of what\u2019s happening around Toronto, visit our calendar here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

TMC\/Festival of Carols<\/h3>\n

Tuesday Dec. 5 and Wednesday Dec. 6 at 7:30 p.m. Yorkminster Park Baptist Church. $40+<\/p>\n

The Toronto Mendelssohn Choir\u2019s annual Christmas concert mixes old favourites with lesser-known Canadian items by Jocelyn Morlock, Sarah Quartel, Andrew Balfour and others. A motet by Max Reger commemorates the sesquicentennial of this German composer\u2019s birth. Jonathan Oldengarm is the organist and Jean-S\u00e9bastien Vall\u00e9e conducts. Info here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Elmer Iseler Singers\/Messiah<\/h3>\n

Friday Dec. 8 at 7:30 p.m. Yorkminster Park Baptist Church. $55 (seniors $50, under 30 $35).<\/p>\n

The Elmer Iseler Singers get in early on the seasonal Handel sweepstakes with support from the VIVA Chamber Singers and the Amadeus Choir. Soloists are Linda Tsatsanis, Hillary Tufford, Michael Colvin and Jorell Williams. Lydia Adams conducts. Info here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Toronto Consort\/Medieval Christmas<\/h3>\n

Friday Dec. 8 (8 p.m.) and Saturday Dec. 9 (2 p.m. and 8 p.m.). Jeanne Lemon Hall. $20+<\/p>\n

The veteran early-music ensemble takes the way-back machine to the Middle Ages. Visuals include projected images of paintings, book illuminations and stained-glass. Plus candlelight. Info here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Sinfonia Toronto\/St\u00e9phane T\u00e9treault<\/h3>\n

Friday Dec. 8 at 8 p.m. Jane Mallett Theatre. $52, senior $40, student $20<\/p>\n

The acclaimed Montreal cellist joins the chamber orchestra in a strings-only reduction of Schumann\u2019s Cello Concerto. On their own the players and conductor Nurhan Arman offer Jocelyn Morlock\u2019s Nostalgia; Corelli\u2019s Christmas Concerto; and selections from Dvo\u0159\u00e1k\u2019s Slavonic Dances Op. 46 and Op.72 and Waltzes Op. 54. Info here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Classical music and opera events in Toronto for the week of Dec. 4 to Dec. 10, 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":100714,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[40430,74,11,76,19,3895,21,5722,63],"tags":[5410,16066,3344],"yst_prominent_words":[7173,8345,10121,6892,14337,8721,16905,19763,10287,10122,10115,6741,10123,10114,6705],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/12\/Copy-of-CRITICS-PICKS.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bakr-qcp","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100713"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100713"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100716,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100713\/revisions\/100716"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100713"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=100713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}