The Latvian Radio Choir spread their wings and fly with Australia’s own recorder queen, Genevieve Lacey. Join them as they look to the skies for dancing planets and soaring birds in the music of Peteris Vasks. Get lost in the sheer beauty of Arvo Part’s Magnificat and listen to the world’s first singers in Hollis Taylor’s Bird on Byrd. Then experience an uplifting new commission from iconic Latvian composer, Ēriks Ešenvalds, setting the words of multi-awardwinning Australian author and poet, Alexis Wright.
ARTISTS
LATVIAN RADIO CHOIR
KASPARS PUTNIŅŠ artistic director
GENEVIEVE LACEY recorders
PROGRAM
Caroline SHAW And the Swallow
VAN EYCK Engels Nachtegaeltje
PÄRT Magnificat and Nunc dimittis
MENDELSSOHN Psalm XXII ‘Mein Gott, warum hast du mich verlassen’
Hollis TAYLOR and Jon ROSE Bird on Byrd*
PALESTRINA Diminutions on Pulchra es anima mea
VASKS Our Mothers’ Names
Ēriks EŠENVALDS Ceremony of Swans*
*Commissioned by Musica Viva Australia. World premiere performances.
