A good way to try to forget that the presidential election took almost two years to end is to listen to music. Here’s where you can do that this week.

>> The Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir (pictured) and the Tallinn Chamber Orchestra will give a concert on Sunday (November 9, 3 p.m.) at the Clarice Smith Center. Their programs generally include composers with lots of diacritical marks in their names, like Pärt and Tüür, but there will also be some Vivaldi. Tickets: $20 to $40 (students, $7).

>> Pianist and notorious masochist Jeremy Denk will play his new program of extremely demanding music, the Concord Sonata of Charles Ives and Beethoven’s Hammerklavier sonata, in the Barns at Wolf Trap on Friday (November 7, 8 p.m.). Tickets are $35, to see if he loses it.

>> Washington Concert Opera opens its fall season on Sunday (November 9, 6 p.m.) with a performance of Donizetti’s rarely heard opera Maria Padilla at Lisner Auditorium. Tickets: $30 to $90.

>> It’s a good week for string quartets, including a most welcome appearance by the Takács Quartet at the Corcoran Gallery of Art on Sunday (November 9, 5 p.m.). Yes, they will play Bartók, plus some Haydn and Schumann. Tickets: $55.

>> The Emerson Quartet is back this week to complete its complete cycle of the Shostakovich string quartets, in concerts on Wednesday (November 5, 7:30 p.m.) and Thursday (November 6, 7:30 p.m.) in the Kennedy Center Terrace Theater. Tickets: $42.