This ensemble sings with impressive clarity and a bright, crisp tone, delivering a largely flawless blend throughout, even while navigating passages of complex polyphony.
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Year: 2018
We have come to expect nothing short of perfection from Douglas Lawrence and the Australian Chamber Choir. The ACC today once again showed that great repertoire can be performed magnificently by this ensemble.
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Classic Melbourne
It is no wonder that this was a sold out event.
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Theatre Now
With its sublime sound, informed performance and exemplary ensemble skills … this was a splendid performance by the Australian Chamber Choir.
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SoundsLike Sydney
The Australian Chamber Choir sings complex music fearlessly and it thrills
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ClassikON
one of the finest concerts in Sydney this year …
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ClassikON
The Australian Chamber Choir with its mastery of numerous styles and the languages … combined with exemplary vocal technique and ensemble skills, creates a glorious sound.
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SoundsLikeSydney
Barber’s … Twelfth Night and Agnus Dei showed the ACC as a glorious group who never fail in technique, timbre or connection with the audience. The Agnus Dei floated to the heavens with the gentlest pulse, … and intimate dynamics. The final cadence was a breathtaking pianissimo ... There were tears.
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Classic Melbourne
This extraordinary concert … was breathtakingly moving. An inspired selection of pieces was programmed in a masterly way which would ensure the audience could only last the emotional distance with ample tissues to comfort the widespread flow of tears.
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Classic Melbourne
… the audience knew they were in for a treat. The magnificent voices soared upwards filling the church, surrounding the audience with pure sweet sound. This impact is magical and leaves a lasting impression.
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Melbourne Observer Review by Jill Page
... sung exquisitely ... this is a choir that Australia can be proud of.
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Stage Whispers
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Theatre Press
the soloists – Elspeth Bawden, Elizabeth Anderson, Timothy Reynolds and Oliver Mann – ably demonstrated a rich and colourful delivery of the intertwining texts, and the ACC gave us the full range of dynamic contrasts with unified control and sensitivity. The Offertorium was joyful, the Sanctus – Benedictus expressed a deeper spirituality with the choral basses shining with their “Osanna in Excelsis”, and Lawrence was in command of seamless tempo changes.
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Classic Melbourne
Where the text spoke of anguish, pleading and torment, the ACC lifted in united energy and awe through the glorious triads and suspensions. Impeccable pitch and articulation of the text are a feature of the ACC’s performances, and throughout, the tempered contrasts of dynamics in response to the text was scholarly and splendid. It is a joy to hear the Stabat Mater – and with the grand final cadence “While my body here decays, May my soul your goodness praise, Safe in heaven eternally,” the ensemble affirmed a celestial height.
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