SSO’s choral contrasts reviewed
David Vance reviews the SSO conducted by David Zinman:
David Vance reviews the SSO conducted by David Zinman:
The Choir of Kings College Cambridge under its Director of Music, Daniel Hyde brings its centuries old role as expert custodians of the prized English choral tradition in a program that champions the music of English composers as well as others.
A Royal Affair Sydney Chamber Choir/ The Muffat Collective Great Hall, Sydney University, 1 June 2019 It was a splendid liaison between music and history when the Sydney Chamber Choir presented A Royal Affair, conducted by newly appointed Music Director, Sam Allchurch. If not for royal patronage, Europe’s rich repository of music would be a…
Symbiosis I, Jane Sheldon,soprano/ Jason Noble, clarinet/James Wannan, viola, 107 Projects,107 Redfern St, Redfern. Friday 18th July, 2014. Redfern’s 107 Projects was host to an enjoyable chamber music concert, the first in a traveling series called Symbioses by New-York based Australian soprano Jane Sheldon. The series launch also featured two local guest instrumentalists, clarinetist…
Faure’s Requiem The Sydney Chamber Choir and The Metropolitan Orchestra, April 12 2014. the City Recital Hall, Sydney. In a world where concert producers seem to draw on a dizzying array of devices to tantalise audiences, the Sydney Chamber Choir delivered a potent reminder of the power of music, dispensing with distractions and focusing…
Spanish Baroque The Australian Brandenburg Orchestra C!RCA City Recital Hall, Sydney May 3, 2017 It was as though a nomadic band of acrobats complete with trobairitz and Baroque instrumentalists had somehow how transcended time and found themselves in Sydney, when the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra directed by the ever-inventive Paul Dyer AO, presented the electrifying Spanish…
The ‘Fab Four’ of chamber music, France’s Modigliani Quartet, returned to Sydney to perform under the auspices of Musica Viva earlier this week. Hamstrung by an injury to resident cellist François Kieffer on the rain washed streets of Paris during the week before they left for Australia, the tour was salvaged by friend and colleague…