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September 2020
Consort 8 | Bonny Sweet Robin
LUNCHTIME CONCERT Music from the 14th century to the present day, including Rorate Caeli, arranged by Lance Eccles for Consort 8 and the premiere of Louise Welsh’s Robbin’ Consort 8 PLAYERS Tim Chung countertenor Susan Christie recorder Susan Foulcher recorder Jude Huxtable recorder Rob Small recorder Bernie Williams recorder, lute
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The Song Company | Close Up: CHANT D’AMOUR ET DE MORT
Radical 20th-century French composer Olivier Messiaen’s obsession with the transformative qualities of music and its power to connect the human soul with distant mysteries of the universe is channelled into his epic song cycle, Harawi. Featuring Principal Artist, soprano Amy Moore, accompanied by Artistic Director, Antony Pitts, the music and the love poetry were written while Messiaen’s wife Claire Delbos was suffering from serious mental illness. Harawiis infused with an fantastical mix of Peruvian ritual, the grand est and catchiest…
Find out more »Bach Akadamie Australia | Bach’s Universal Light
For so many of us, 2020 has been exceptionally hard thus far. With this in mind, we present a journey from darkness into light through Bach’s universal genius. ‘In memoriam’ for 2020, we begin with his haunting early cantata ‘Actus Tragicus’. Paring the music back to just one instrument, Bach’s solo works are featured drawing us towards a turning point of hope and light. No composition of his urges us onwards towards joy more than his Brandenburg Concerto no. 4.…
Find out more »Gerard Willems | Kawai Series: Sturm und Drang
THE KAWAI SESSIONS – GERARD WILLEMS – STURM UND DRANG Melbourne Digital Concert Hall Presenting Partner: National Art School ARTISTS Gerard Willems – piano PROGRAM Beethoven – Sonata No. 17 in D minor Op. 31/2 ‘The Tempest’ Beethoven – Sonata No. 23 in F minor Op. 57 ‘Appassionata’ This event will be live streamed on Melbourne Digital Concert Hall
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