The program’s most challenging music, a terse but harmonically grinding Miserere extracted from Penderecki’s St. Luke Passion, enjoyed a lucid reading from the 17-strong ensemble, who handled its pungent intervallic clashes with controlled vigour, the emotional aura of regret and sorrow coming across with singular success.
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Before Sunday, I had never seen a choir performance except on Christmas day or during a Qantas ad … It was instantly apparent that each individual was uniquely gifted and that together, the talent of these perfectly-synchronised individuals was simply outstanding.”
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Many of the singers featured as soloists and all were stunning. With such individual standards, no wonder the ensemble sounds so impressive.
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We look forward with keen anticipation to a further visit from this formidable ensemble.
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SACRED AND SPINE-CHILLING by Clive O'Connell ... Allegri's Miserere ... was fluent and blessed with an excellent soprano who executed spine-chilling top Cs with comfortable assurance... Lawrence
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by Clive O'Connell ONLY three years old, the Australian Chamber Choir attracts a large body of enthusiastic followers, larger even than several older Melbourne choral organisations.
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… the ACC’s vital reading of Bach’s Singet dem Herrn: choral work of the top rank, as lucidly articulated as you could desire, the bustling interweaving of eight lines coming across in this revealing acoustic with impressive purpose and intonational fidelity.
The evening’s major work, Missa Papae Marcelli, displayed the choir’s fluency and suave textural colouring … the whole effect both intimate and declamatory …
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by Clive O'Connell Brenton Broadstock's I had a dream ... sets out a three-part elegy in haunting consonantal language, rising to an aggressive climax in the
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