Richard Gill discusses Mozart, music and mortality
With just a week to go until this landmark concert, tickets are selling fast, so to avoid missing out, why not head straight across to City Recital Hall box office and book your tickets now?
This performance by Sydney Chamber Choir at 6pm on Sunday 16 April features the Sydney premiere of an excitingly new version of Mozart’s much-loved Requiem.
Conducted by Richard Gill, and featuring some of Australia’s finest vocal soloists as well as the acclaimed Sydney Children’s Choir, it presents Mozart’s unfinished masterpiece in an entirely new light.
You can learn more about the work, and this unique completion of it, in an in-depth interview with Richard Gill which aired on Sunday 9 March on ABC Radio National’s Sunday Nights with John Cleary. Richard is not only one of Australia’s finest conductors, but also the country’s preeminent music educator and a thoroughly engaging communicator about music.
To whet your appetite for this unforgettable musical experience, you can find the streaming audio online at the ABC website. (The interview with Richard is in the second hour of the program, so don’t think you’re in the wrong spot when you hear the audio start with Doris Day singing “Que sera, sera” – that’s the opening music for the first hour, a discussion of fate! If you want to fast-forward straight to the interview, it starts at 57’35”.)