Reviews, Publicity & Audio Clips
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"Ensemble enchants by 'Candlelight'... Another heavenly concert by the Kansas City Chamber Orchestra... fixes its stellar position in our musical community... a stunning success."- Kansas City Star, March 25, 2000
"Luminous program shines with baroque and modern music." - Kansas City Star, September 30, 2000
"Conductor Bruce Sorrell chose an excellent program... The orchestra excelled in its effervescent, buoyant playing with its stylish phrasing."- Sun Newspapers, October 6, 2000
"Bruce Sorrell's deft conducting showed consistent command in a variety of styles." - Kansas City Star, September 29, 2001
"The orchestra aquitted itself magnificently, with Bruce Sorrell a sympathetic and skilled leader." - Kansas City Star, December 6, 2001
"Sorrell gave the Eroica a great deal of meticulous care, coaxing supple sonorities and bending tempos ever so slightly for the tender slow themes... The result was tasteful and strangely thrilling... Beethoven's inner voices sounded forth like the sparkle of a mountain spring." - Kansas City Star, September 23, 2002
Kansas City Chamber Orchestra Concert Audio Samples
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- Albinoni - Concerto for Two Oboes in V Major, Op.9, No. 9
Barbara Bishop and Kathryn Greenbank, soloists - Bach - Cantata No. 211 "Coffee Cantata"
Amy O'Brien, soprano - Beethoven - Symphony No. 3 in E-flat Major, Op. 55 "Eroica"
1st movement - Vivaldi - The Four Seasons: "Autumn"
Jessica Wakefield, violin soloist