Review: Bach B Minor Mass (Australian Chamber Choir)
An assured performance of Bach’s masterpiece in a beautiful but acoustically challenging venue.
An assured performance of Bach’s masterpiece in a beautiful but acoustically challenging venue.
More of a Renaissance Christmas than a Baroque one, but an appreciative audience didn’t seem to mind.
This program of Coronation and funeral music comes to us with the spectacular pageantry of recent royal events fresh in the mind.
Throughout the 60 minutes of this Australian Chamber Choir performance, Michelangelo’s influence was never far away.
This richly rewarding performance was warmly received by a highly appreciative audience, with some tears of joy.
With five concerts touring Victoria and three livestreams, the Choir presents both famous and lesser-known selections of choral music, as well as a newly commissioned work.
Top choir cooks up a glorious feast of Bach’s magnificent six motets in one sitting.
The ACC's foray into Fauré, taking in Brahms and Tavener on the way, marks a welcome return.
The choir kicks off with a tour of Fauré, Brahms and Tavener across regional Victoria with tickets available for digital performances live and on-demand.
The choir's manager Elizabeth Anderson and director Douglas Lawrence tell us about how the choir has coped with the COVID-19 pandemic, the lessons of livestreaming, and how they managed to produce a new CD during the lockdowns.
The choir’s live-streamed concert, performed under social distancing conditions, will feature music composed by survivors of the plagues that ravaged Elizabethan London.
The Australian Chamber Choir is exploring a new concept in its latest concert, which it is performing in Australia and around Europe.
Douglas Lawrence is advocating the “no sauce” approach in his 2019 season, which will see the choir embark on an 18-day tour of Europe.