Review: St Matthew Passion (Mendelssohn version)

Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra continue to provide audiences with quality historically informed performance firsts in exciting orchestral concerts and recordings. This Holy Thursday that excitement went next level, with a collaboration which presented Mendelssohn’s 1841 arrangement of Bach’s St Matthew Passion, as Mendelssohn would have expressed it at the time.

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Outbursts and high volume and the shifts to choir as characterised groups were achieved with great dramatic force and contrast, well supported by the HIP colours and shapes from Mendelssohn’s ‘Bach-plus’ orchestra paying Mendelssohn’s creatively orchestrated cover version.

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The many fine creative and research strands to this event will hold an important part in Sydney’s performance history, and in the Mendelssohn and Bach performance histories both in Australia and globally. This project showcases a stunning status quo and bright future for HIP performance practice plus choral and vocal music in this country.

Paul Nolan, Sydney Arts Guide
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