7pm
The Choir of Trinity College Cambridge - Melbourne
Melbourne Recital Centre
Australia Tour 2016
Musica Viva International Concert Season
"For this tour The Choir of Trinity College Cambridge will perform one of the 20th-century’s most beautiful choral works: the 1922 'Mass for Unaccompanied Double Choir' by Frank Martin. The composer regarded it as an intensely personal spiritual expression, it took forty years for him to allow it to be heard, and it has never left the spotlight since. Surrounding Martin’s masterpiece is a rich cache of smaller pieces. Of special note are two new works: one by the choir’s Organ Scholar, Owain Park; and another by the Australian Joe Twist, commissioned especially for this tour. "
Reviews
Performing Arts Hub2016★★★★ As optional extras to its concert seasons of chamber music, Musica Viva Australia has for decades past toured some of England’s most famous church choirs, notably the Choirs of King’s and St John’s Colleges, Cambridge. These…Read the review 
The Age2016★★★★½ As on their 2010 Musica Viva tour, this excellent choral body began with Arvo Pärt's Bogoróditse Djévo, the deft balance and shape of this atmospheric prayer showing evidence of director Stephen Layton's painstaking…Read the review 
Limelight2016★★★★★ "A spiritually profound, sensuously crafted performance from the Rolls-Royce of choirs" At the first Melbourne performance of its national tour, there was a moment during the Choir of Trinity College Cambridge’s performance…Read the review 
The Age2016Classical Year in Review: Passion, high-quality performances in superior effortsRead the review