Praise for 'robust and resplendent sound' in Mozart
Sydney Chamber Choir’s performance of Mozart’s Requiem, in the completion by Gordon Kerry that was commissioned by ABC Classic FM and first performed at the 2006 Bangalow Festival – drew a full house to the City Recital Hall Angel Place on Palm Sunday, 16 March 2008.
This version is different from the several other completions of Mozart’s unfinished masterpiece. As Sydney Morning Herald critic Peter McCallum puts it, in this ‘lively attempt to exhume and enhance Mozart’s Requiem … Gordon Kerry … restricts himself to writing the bits Mozart didn’t write rather than correcting Sussmayr’.
McCallum goes on to praise the performance: ‘With an excellent quartet of soloists (Penelope Mills, Sally-Anne Russell, Christopher Saunders and Stephen Bennett), the Sydney Chamber Choir, under Richard Gill, sang with robust and resplendent sound…’.
Read the full review here or, if you’d like to know more about this distinctive version of the Requiem, see this article which appeared in the Herald a few days before the concert.