Brief but fruitful musical encounter

BRIEF ENCOUNTERS: A MUSICAL AFFAIR Metropolitan Festival Orchestra, Esplanade Concert Hall/Sunday The title of this concert was probably derived from the 1945 David Lean-directed black-and-white movie Brief Encounter, in which Rachmaninov’s Second Piano Concerto featured prominently in the soundtrack. It, however, accurately describes the musical collaboration between musicians from Singapore and Austria in this concert, […]

Osterklang Festival

…The Chorus sine nomine singers swept everybody off their feet during their brilliant interventions – not counting the triumphal baroque trumpets and dramatic drum rolls which greatly added to the performance…

Music as in times of Solomo

…. des mit Verve agierenden Chorus sine nomine …

Raiding: A tremendous finale sound cosmos

‘Alles Vergängliche ist nur ein Gleichnis’: Supported by a wonderfully colourful orchestra sound, the men’s choir sang the Verse of the the chorus mysticus from Faust II with magical quality in intonatiom and in the subtlest of pianos. As the tenor joined the ensemble for ‘Das ewig Weibliche zieht uns hinan’ the sound rose into […]

A Mozart bliss at Musikverein Vienna

A program centered around Mozart that delighted the enthusiasts as well as the initiates: The Jupiter-Symphony and the C minor Mass KV 427. The Wiener Akademie succeeded in interpreting both works exquisitely well at the Musikverein. The C Major Symphony KV 427, Mozart’s last, sounded inspired and captivatingly transparent. Neither the musicians nor the audience […]

Fresh wind with “tuuli”

The Chorus Sine Nomine was a real surprise at the occasion of the 150th jubilee of the Choir association from the Vorarlberg region. It was founded in 1991 by Johannes Hiemetsberger as a student choir. Success came as early as 1995, where it won the first prize at the ‘Bundesjugendsingen’. ‘tuuli’, the title of tonight’s […]

Ablaze concert

‘Tuuli’, besides being the Finnish word for ‘wind’, is the name of the new program chosen by Chorus sine nomine to celebrate its 20 years of existence. The first release at the Brucknerhaus ended up being a true party: the genre ‘concert’ lit up like a beacon without the help of fireworks. Highest quality is an obvious […]

Fresh wind with Chorus sine nomine

`Tuuli’, the Finnish word for ‘wind’, is the name given by the Chorus Sine Nomine to the impressive evening during which a fresh, new wind blew through the well occupied Middle Hall of the Brucknerhaus. A choir standing in file? Not the Chorus Sine Nomine and its conductor Johannes Hiemetsberger who founded the ensemble twenty […]

Belshazzar

… Just as magnificent in quality and musicality was the Austrian Choir Sine Nomine. I do not know the reasons why they have this name, as it strikes me as being rather strange. If names have to do with quality, this choir should certainly have one which resounds! … The public enjoyed and applauded all […]