The world’s best chamber music bargain, $10 a ticket, arrives Tuesday

Three string quartets played by the Elias Quartet, Britten’s Les Illuminations sung by renowned tenor Nicholas Phan, and a recital of four-hand Ravel works played by pianists Lydia Artymiw and Cynthia Raim are among the concerts for which tickets are going on sale, for one day only, for $10.

The Philadelphia Chamber Music Society is including in the Tuesday offer a total of nine concerts between January and May.

Deeply discounted tickets have recently become a tool for luring patrons back into theaters and concert halls post-pandemic.

Facing a season that wasn’t selling well, Opera Philadelphia in August launched a new price structure with tickets as low as $11. Last month, TKTS ticketing announced a new program selling heavily discounted arts tickets at the Independence Visitor Center. The Philadelphia Ballet, too, sold $10 tickets for the opening night of its production of The Nutcracker.

But PCMS started its $10 sale day in 2007, said PCMS artistic director Miles Cohen, and has offered it annually except for two years during the pandemic.

Also among the PCMS concerts on sale this year are appearances by Musicians from Marlboro, the CKW Trio with clarinetist Ricardo Morales, and the Gamut Bach Ensemble.

PCMS’s $10 tickets will be offered Dec. 17 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at 215-569-8080 or pcmsconcerts.org with online sales continuing until 8 p.m.