There is a delicious irony to an orchestral concert that begins with unaccompanied choral items. Indeed the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra’s Mozart Requiem: 100 Voices programme was well on its way before we saw the first instruments on stage. It was a night when voices took centre-stage, and those voices comprised school students culled from some…
The Australian Brandenburg Orchestra has a new string to its bow – so to speak – with the formation of the Brandenburg Young Voices who will perform alongside the Brandenburg Choir in the ensemble’s upcoming performances of Mozart’s Requiem. The concert is also the first time that the Brandenburg has performed Handel’s mighty Hallelujah Chorus from Messiah…
Recorder virtuoso Maurice Steger opened the year for the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra at the City Recital Hall earlier this week with a programme of music by Vivaldi, Telemann, Geminiani and others of the era. The concerts continue on selected dates till March 5. Scroll down to see all three images of the musicians in action.