Mozart Requiem - Sydney Chamber Choir

3:00pm, Sun, 28 Apr 2024

  • Event Details
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  • Type of event: Concert
    Start time: 3:00pm
    End time: 5:00pm
    External website related to this event: https://www.sydneychamberchoir.org/mozartsrequiem
    Venue: City Recital Hall
    Description: Mozart Requiem
    Artists
    Sydney Chamber Choir
    Sam Allchurch | Conductor
    The Muffat Collective
    Celeste Lazarenko | soprano
    Helen Sherman | mezzo-soprano
    Richard Butler | tenor
    David Greco | bass
     
    Mozart’s Requiem is music of pure gold – shining genius, radiant beauty, profound humanity. 
     
    The composer’s final act of creation, written in the face of death itself, the Requiem transcends fear and despair to affirm the power of life and hope. It’s one of the greatest works ever written for choir and orchestra, bursting with passion, drama and immense tenderness.
     
    Alongside the Requiem is the simple yet sublime Ave verum corpus. And keeping company with Mozart in this concert are J.S. Bach and contemporary Australian composer Iain Grandage with two contrasting visions of our place in the universe: the irresistible joy of Bach’s motet Singet dem Herm ein neues Lied, and Grandage’s gentle humanist prayer to nature and innocence, Why Are We Here?.