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…
Fresh from their successful tour of Asia, Sydney Chamber Choir starts the year with their Easter concert of which the centrepiece is Fauré’s Requiem, with The Metropolitan Orchestra and soloists Belinda Montgomery and Alexander Knight. Conducting this concert will be Richard Gill OAM, the incoming music director of the Sydney Chamber Choir. Fauré’s Requiem is more a lullaby of…
The Metropolitan Orchestra launches into 2014 with the first of its Met Concerts, featuring the orchestra’s Principal Flute Svetlana Yaroslavskaya as soloist in Vine’s Pipe Dreams concerto for Flute and Orchestra . Also on the programme conducted by Sarah-Grace Williams, Mozart’s Symphony no 31 (Paris), and Schumann’s Symphony no 3 (Rhenish). TMOs Met Concerts feature the full complement…