Review: Mozart Requiem: 100 Voices/ Australian Brandenburg Orchestra
“Intimate as it is, Sydney’s City Recital Hall offers its performers a dizzyingly high gallery which was the platform for the evening’s four soloists, soprano Amy Moore, counter-tenor Maximilian Riebl, tenor Paul Sutton and bass Alexander Knight in a crisp and witty a capella delivery of the satirical cameo Matona Mia Cara by di Lasso, a todesca (a 16th-century polyphonic song that lampoons Germans attempting to speak Italian). The elevation created a delightful resonance and the voices were beautifully blended as the sound percolated down to the audience.” - Shamistha de Soysa for SoundsLikeSydney
There is a delicious irony to an orchestral concert that begins with unaccompanied choral items. Indeed the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra’s Mozart Requiem: 100 Voices programme was well on its way before we saw the first instruments on stage.
“Each of the four soloists, was exceptional; their voices well matched to the music and to each other, soaring in the interplay of the Recordare and a glorious Benedictus.” - Shamistha de Soysa for SoundsLikeSydney
