{"id":2214,"date":"2012-03-11T07:07:40","date_gmt":"2012-03-11T12:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/?p=2214"},"modified":"2012-03-11T07:07:40","modified_gmt":"2012-03-11T12:07:40","slug":"todays-concert-at-the-carlu-features-stuttgart-chamber-choir-one-of-worlds-finest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2012\/03\/11\/todays-concert-at-the-carlu-features-stuttgart-chamber-choir-one-of-worlds-finest\/","title":{"rendered":"Today’s concert at the Carlu features Stuttgart Chamber Choir, one of world’s finest"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Stuttgart Chamber Choir from Germany, one of the world’s finest, is in Toronto with founding music director Frieder Bernius. Besides this afternoon’s weather, their 3 p.m. concert today at the Carlu (once the Eaton Auditorium) should be an event to savour.<\/p>\n

The choir, which has been around for 44 years, is joined by some relative newbies: Toronto’s Choir 21 (led by David Fallis) and, for the premiere of a new work by Paul Frehner, the excellent TorQ Percussion Ensemble.<\/p>\n

There are other treats on the programe, ranging from J.S. Bach to Gyorgy Ligeti.<\/p>\n

There’s precious little detail about the concert on Soundstream’s website<\/a>. For tickets, click here<\/a>. On Facebook, Soundstreams says that, if you call the boxoffice at 416-408-0208, you can get a second ticket at half-price by quoting the code “choir50.”<\/p>\n

One of the pieces is a 16-voice arrangement of Mahler’s “Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen” (which translates loosely as ‘I have let go of the world’). Here they are singing it:<\/p>\n