Uplifting.  Intoxicating.  Heavenly.

“And lo, the star, which they had seen in the East, went before them…”

Johann Sebastian Bach’s monumental ‘oratorio’ for the Christmas season is really a set of six cantatas – one for each of the first six days of Christmas. Performing them together in concert is the musical equivalent of binge-watching Bach – the best of guilty pleasures!

In 2023, Brett Weymark conducted Parts 1–3 in what Limelight described as a triumphant ‘high-altitude assault on Bach’s magic mountain’. In 2025, Elizabeth Scott concludes the series with Parts 4–6. In these cantatas, the narrative turns to the Magi – the wise men from the East who followed the star to the Christ child – and Bach gives them music that’s as brilliant and intoxicating as gold, frankincense and myrrh.

Our Chamber Singers and VOX will be joined by the Sydney Philharmonia Orchestra, and two emerging composers will be invited to create reflective interludes to sit between the cantatas.

ARTISTS

Elizabeth Scott conductor
Miriam Bannan soprano
Hannah Fraser mezzo-soprano
Jacob Lawrence tenor
Christopher Richardson baritone

Chamber Singers
VOX
Sydney Philharmonia Orchestra

PROGRAM

JS BACH Christmas Oratorio: Parts 4, 5, 6
with two new interludes by winners of the SPC Emerging Composer Awards