Australian Haydn Ensemble | Heavenly Sopranos Tuesday April 16, 2024, City Recital Hall, Sydney NSW Although it is tempting to play with words around Celeste, Skye and Heavenly, I will simply say this concert was DIVINE! The AHE with Skye McIntosh and Matthew Greco on...
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Song Company’s Superbloom ‘a form of worship in song’ superbly performed
The Song Company | Superbloom March 7, 2024, Utzon Room, Sydney Opera House, NSW Superbloom describes the miraculous blooming of the desert after unusual rain - there is an extreme contrast between the arid and the lush. Guest Director Jane Sheldon embraced this...
Cheeky joyfulness of the Australian Haydn Ensemble quartet
Australian Haydn Ensemble | Love and Devotion February 18, 2024, Utzton Room, Sydney Three string quartets, each expressing different aspects of love and devotion, were on this eponymous evening program by the Australian Haydn Ensemble in the Utzon Room. Skye McIntosh...
Bel a cappella’s innovative Acknowledgement makes its world premiere
Bel a cappella | Of a Rose Sing We Dec 10, 2023, St Augustine's Balmain As usual, Bel a cappella did something unusual and very special when they began their Sunday afternoon concert, Of a Rose Sing We. They sang not of a Rose just yet, but SANG an Acknowledgement of...
A wonderful celebration of superb singing by The Song Company
The Song Company | Hark! November 30, 2023, St Francis of Assisi Church, Paddington, NSW HARK! HEAR! Listen…….enjoy……sing……. This we did in the beautiful setting of St. Francis of Assisi in Paddington. “Hark!’ was a wonderful celebration of superb singing by The Song...
The subtle splendour of Sydney Chamber Choir
Sydney Chamber Choir | The Human Spirit Saturday September 23, 2023, Verbrugghen Hall, Sydney It was a positive sign of the continuing creativity of the human spirit to note that all the works in this performance were composed in the 21st century and a delight that...
Bel a cappella’s delightful dissonances sent shivers
Bel a cappella | Lighten Our Darkness Saturday Sept 2, 2023, St Augustine's Church Balmain This evening concert began in mysterious darkness, as the singers of Bel a cappella distributed themselves around the perimeter of St. Augustine’s Catholic Church. They sang The...
The youthful Sydney Concert Orchestra does not disappoint!
Sydney Concert Orchestra | Scheherazade Saturday 22 July, 2023, Verbrugghen Hall, Sydney The Verbruggen Hall at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music was packed and abuzz, as the audience waited for the third concert by the youthful Sydney Concert Orchestra. They were...
AHE’s Die Stille Nacht inspired and delighted
Australian Haydn Ensemble | Die Stille Nacht June 19, 2023, City Recital Hall, Sydney “Die Stille Nacht” may sound like a German Christmas carol, but in fact describes Christ’s agony on the Mount of Olives. This cantata, by Telemann, formed the centre piece of the...
Enormous talent emerging from Sydney Concert Orchestra
Sydney Concert Orchestra | Tchaikovsky Symphony no 5 Saturday, April 22, 2023, Verbrugghen Hall , Sydney The Verbrugghen Hall at the Sydney Conservatorium was packed to hear the Sydney Concert Orchestra perform their second concert. This new, young orchestra is full...