22 Sep 2025
© Paul Marc Mitchell
Pablo Heras-Casado makes his debut with the Monteverdi Choir and Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique in London and Rimini, performing Mozart’s final masterpiece with star soloists Louise Alder, Eva Zaicik, Laurence Kilsby, and William Thomas, alongside Schubert’s Fifth Symphony and Bach’s motet Singet dem Herrn.
★★★★★ "Pablo Heras-Casado, a conductor as at home in Wagner at Bayreuth as he clearly is with the Monteverdi Choir and Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, stunning us with a consistently vigilant and alive Mozart Requiem ... The programme was typically inventive ... crystal-clear from the 35 singers ... The players were a delight to watch as well and hear, going great blazes ... the soloists were just perfect."
★★★★★ "What impressed most across the evening was the rapport between choir, orchestra and conductor. Heras-Casado drew singing of blazing precision and orchestral playing full of character, shaping each work with a keen sense of style yet allowing moments of spontaneity to emerge naturally"
"there wasn't just music: there was energy, collaboration, mutual understanding, and a collective strength born from the union of individual excellences"
"[Pablo Heras-Casado] delivered one of the most dramatic performances of the Requiem that I have ever witnessed. The performance, with a well-nigh ideal line-up of soloists (Louise Alder, Eva Zaicik, Laurence Kilsby and William Thomas), only whetted the appetite for more dramatic Mozart and Rossini from these forces."
Operalogue
Teatro Amintore Galli © Riccardo Gallini / Sagra Musicale Malatestiana
Teatro Amintore Galli © Riccardo Gallini / Sagra Musicale Malatestiana
Teatro Amintore Galli © Riccardo Gallini / Sagra Musicale Malatestiana
St Martin-in-the-Fields © Paul Marc Mitchell
St Martin-in-the-Fields © Paul Marc Mitchell
