A journey between tradition and modernity allowed the audience to listen, dream, be carried away and seemingly float on a bed of sound. A wonderfully satisfying experience!
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Review Category: Germany
In “Bridge of Dreams”, the 18 young singers created a dazzling and wonderfully varied aural experience, using only their voices to build bridges between a range of centuries, styles, nations and beliefs.
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Sächsische Zeitung
Dreams of Sound
The Australian Chamber Choir – a dazzling experience
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Sächsische Zeitung
The choir has visited Wangen several times as part of its various international tours, and with their sophisticated sound and self-evident virtuosity, continue to astound their public with the most demanding choral repertoire. Baroque works stand opposite very modern choral pieces. The choir makes light work of switching from one style to another, surprising the audience with rousing spirituals as encores”.
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Schwäbische Zeitung
Christine McCombe’s … captivating work was followed by the highlight of the evening: a finely crafted, riveting and transparent rendition of Bach’s motet for double choir Fürchte dish nicht
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Darmstädter Echo, Germany
The Australian Chamber Choir … presented as a professional and dynamic ensemble, whose 18 members navigated this demanding program with a firm sense of style and expressive delivery
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Darmstädter Echo, Germany. Trans.E.Anderson
Building bridges with music
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Darmstädter Echo
The choir fulfilled the conductor’s intentions with exactitude, clarity and deep understanding. Exemplary intonation and astounding rhythmic precision are Lawrence’s hallmarks, to which the choir responds with beautiful, transparent and evocative soundscapes”.
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Augsburger Allgemeine, Trans. Brent Annable
Under Douglas Lawrence’s inspirational direction, a strange, labyrinthine cosmos evolved, highlighting the capabilities of all the singers and conjuring up both mystical depths and dazzling highlights”.
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Augsburger Allgemeine. Trans. Brent Annable
The Australian Chamber Choir … demonstrated impressive versatility in a scintillating programme. They built bridges between Indigenous Australian and western culture, between the old world and the new world, and between the music of three continents and five centuries …”
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Augsburger Allgemeine, trans Brent Annable
The choir demonstrated an astounding ability to effect a complete musical about-face – never before had the Basilica experienced such radical and ecstatic musical extremes”
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Augusburger Allgemeine, Trans Brent Annable
Vocal acrobatics and musical magic in the Basilica
Chamber Choir from Melbourne with Phenomenal Quality in the Dillingen Basilica
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Augsburger Allgemeine
The ensemble stands for best practice in vocal culture and sophisticated interpretation
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Myheimat.de
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
Excellent quality as always. - Josef Mitschitzky, Organist, Ottobeuron Basilika
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Endorsement: Josef Mitschitzky, Organist, Ottobeuron Basilika
In Leipzig we have several excellent choirs … Of the many visiting choirs we hear, not many come up to our standard. The Australian Chamber Choir did.
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