Supersonic Award
“…what beautiful playing Marc Taddei got from his orchestra!”
“This performance to a sold-out Wellington Town Hall was a triumph.”
“It was, quite simply, Marc Taddei’s show. He directed with an absolute vision of just what this pantheistic view of the world, couched in the words of the Ordinary Mass, can actually mean. In Taddei’s hands the view that the Missa Solemnis is really a choral symphony also made sense.”
“Conductor Marc Taddei certainly seemed like a man possessed throughout, inspiring his musicians to put themselves on the line and give it all they had. At the same time, his sense of the work’s overall structure remained admirably clear-sighted, so that, in his hands the work sounded every bit like the masterpiece that it’s reputed to be.
This was a performance that I’m sure will be talked about for a long time to come – all credit to conductor, choir, orchestra and soloists for their part in creating our very own and much-cherished version of the stuff musical legends are made of.”