Master Chorale Shines in Mozart’s Arrangement of ‘Messiah'
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The choral singing was quite exceptional – admirable clarity, flexibility and crisp diction in the thorniest fugues
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A Night with Mozart and Salieri, and the Amazing Pacific Chorale
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Marco Barricelli could not erase the memory of F. Murray Abraham; nonetheless, he managed to inject some semblance of humanity into the Hollywood caricature of Salieri’s character.
Read MoreEast Meets West: A Magnificent Chorus of Prayers for Unity
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Esmail’s musical style is unabashedly melodic, a beautifully seamless fusion of Western and Eastern (Indian) classical traditions.
Read MoreMozart Masses Consecrate and Inaugurate PSOC Season
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Mozart’s sacred choral works, performed on period instruments and sung by light, agile voices, transforming the Segerstrom Concert Hall quite literally into a temple of music.
Read MoreA Stirring Mozart Requiem Opens LA Master Chorale New Season
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After the opening concert, the Master Chorale will resume their Lagrime di San Pietro world tour, jet-setting between L.A. and cities in Australia, Mexico and Europe.
Read MoreDudamel Presents Bernstein's Mass as Great Musical Theater
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The 'street people' chorus, in Christine Crook's psychedelically colorful hippie costumes, were as brutally relentless as McKinny's celebrant was serenely spiritual in his "A Simple Song".
Read MoreLA Phil Closes Season with Brilliant Bartok Cycle and Janáček Fanfare
/At each concert, Yuja gave the audience their money’s worth – mind-blowing flashy encores of Mozart’s Turkish rondo and Carmen variations, in her own virtuoso improvisational style...
Read MoreA Vibrant, Spiritual Bach B-Minor Mass From Stuttgart's 'Gaechinger Cantorey'
/The Cantorey’s 31-member choir and 30-player Baroque orchestra were the perfect size to convey the work’s grandeur without sacrificing the agility and clarity in the 4- and 5-part choruses
Read MoreA stormy, stirring Missa Solemnis by the Master Chorale
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Throughout the performance, one was shocked and awed by the power and precision in which the Master Chorale conveyed Beethoven’s vivid word painting
Read MoreA Multimedia 'Creation' Is a Holiday Treat
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Tying up all these together was conductor Gustavo Dudamel, who never let up the excitement after the initial ‘Big Bang’ of Creation (“Let there be light!”) and made this two-hour religious oratorio almost as enjoyable as a Mozart comic opera.
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