Live classical music reviews are an integral part of the Limelight catalogue and 2024 did not disappoint in delivering exciting projects, with a strong showing from our state orchestras.

Read on to relive the top 10 moments that captured Australia’s collective consciousness throughout 2024.

#10

Voices en Masse – Mozart’s Requiem

Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra

★★★★★

Voices en Masse – Mozart’s Requiem (Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra). Photo © Peter Donnelly

There is something deeply powerful about large-scale choral events and the reading of Mozart’s great Requiem in Hobart was no exception under the baton of world-renowned English choral director Simon Halsey. Audiences were treated to a unique acoustic experience looking over the balcony, as the voices of the mass choir soared from the Federation Hall stalls.

“Halsey’s ability to meld some 220 community singers and the TSO Chorus into a single instrument of amazing range, tonal lustre and precision was something phenomenal,” wrote Limelight reviewer Peter Donnelly.

#9

Augustin Hadelich performs Mendelssohn

Sydney Symphony Orchestra

★★★★½

Augustin Hadelich and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. Photo supplied

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