... as TS Eliot might have said, between the sheet music and the concert falls the shadow. Hearing Vaughan Williams’s little-known John Bunyan setting from 1940,
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Review Category: Australia
the new ACC MOTETS CD … jumped to the top of my favourite Bach CD Chart! The ACC has developed a distinctive sound and the German is impeccable
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Endorsement: Hans Schroeder, President, Australian Bach Society
The Australian Chamber Choir is attracting an increasing following. This can be attributed to three major factors: the quality of the performances, the choice of repertoire, and the suitability of Our Lady of Mount Carmel as a venue. The acoustic of this Middle Park church provides a splendid vehicle to showcase the vocal and musical strengths of this 18 voice choir. On Sunday afternoon, a fine blending of strong voices with secure intonation and a surprisingly broad dynamic range responded to the direction of Douglas Lawrence with assurance.
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ArtsHub
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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The Age, Melbourne
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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AU review
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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Herald Sun, Melbourne
We look forward with keen anticipation to a further visit from this formidable ensemble.
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Endorsement: John Rivers, Organist and Master of the Choristers, Wangaratta Cathedral
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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The Age, Melbourne
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 Age, Melbourne
New choir delivers powerfully
… 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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The Age
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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