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Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra | Love, Loss & Madness

Bel canto tales of love, loss and madness from 19th-century Italy… told by some of Australia’s most brilliant singers, using all the chiaroscuro and passion of the human voice against a lush backdrop of historical strings, winds and brass. An imagined opera of arias, recitatives and overtures, based on groundbreaking new research by Prof. Neal Peres Da Costa, and featuring

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Pepe Newton

The Song Company | Der Schwanengesang – Wollongong

20–24 May Newcastle | Sydney | Canberra | Wollongong After 25 years shaping The Song Company into one of Australia’s most admired ensembles, Roland Peelman returns to direct a landmark project. At its centre is Heinrich Schütz’s Der Schwanengesang – a monumental setting of Psalm 119, completed in 1671 as a lasting statement of moral and musical values. Written for

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Pepe Newton

The Song Company | Der Schwanengesang – Manuka

20–24 May Newcastle | Sydney | Canberra | Wollongong After 25 years shaping The Song Company into one of Australia’s most admired ensembles, Roland Peelman returns to direct a landmark project. At its centre is Heinrich Schütz’s Der Schwanengesang – a monumental setting of Psalm 119, completed in 1671 as a lasting statement of moral and musical values. Written for

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Lliane Clarke

Composers present dynamic new music from red dirt country at Moorambilla Voices Gala Concert

Moorambilla Voices | Riversong 2024: Spirit of Water   28-29 September 2024, Dubbo Regional Theatre No less than five new Australian premiere works, nine composers and a new digital film score came alive at the Moorambilla Voices Gala Concert, Riversong 2024: Spirit of Water, which I travelled to watch in Dubbo last weekend.  The powerful performance was a thematic multi-arts expression

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Pepe Newton

Celebrating 40 years of The Song Company in style

The Song Company | Vespers for Mother Earth June 23, City Recital Hall, Sydney THE SONG COMPANY Susannah Lawergren, Annika Hinrichs, Anna Fraser – Sopranos Jessica O’Donoghue & Hannah Fraser – Mezzo Sopranos Timothy Reynolds & Louis Hurley – Tenors Hayden Barrington & Andrew O’Connor – Baritone & Bass Guest Director: Roland Peelman Ensemble Offspring & Guest Instrumentalists Lamorna Nightingale, Flute

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Lliane Clarke

Enter the electrifying realm of BackStage Music’s experimental performance…

IMPOSTO| Presented by BackStage Music 14 June 2024 Woodburn Creatives On a wet winter night, I was drawn like a moth to the vibrant lights of Woodburn Creatives warehouse in Redfern. I stepped into the electrifying realm of BackStage Music’s experimental performance. All credit to the dynamic Lamorna Nightingale, who keeps pushing boundaries and serves us a platter of new

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Claudia Jelic

The particular panache of Salut! Baroque’s ‘Genius’

Salut! Baroque | The Genius February 18, 2024, Verbrugghen Hall, Sydney Performers: Anna Fraser, soprano Sally Walker, baroque flute Sally Melhuish and Alana Blackburn, recorders Meg Cohen and Sarah Papadopoulos, baroque violins Suzie Kim, baroque viola Tim Blomfield, bass violin Simon Martyn-Ellis, theorbo/baroque guitar Chad Kelly, harpsichord, who impressively stepped in at short notice for Monika Kornel. Salut! Baroque’s ‘The

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Pepe Newton

BackStage Music 2024 – Redefining classical music

BackStage Music invites you to embark on a musical journey like no other in 2024. As a haven for creative expression, this concert series promises to redefine classical music through innovative programming and collaborations.   “BackStage Music presents seven adventurous programs which stretch and shape the classical music experience through radical rethinking of how music is imagined and presented”  

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Jane Downer

Easter Oratorio: Bach’s imagination magnificently vitalised

Bach Akademie Australia – Bach’s Easter Oratorio Friday 8th April 2022 – Australian Digital Concert Hall As we approach the Crucifixion of Passion season, the Bach Akademie Australia gave us a prospective sighting of the Resurrection and hope of salvation with J S Bach’s Easter Oratorio and two Easter Cantatas, all composed for Leipzig in 1725, in a delayed streaming

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Jane Downer

Christ Church St Laurence’s Passion shows superlative artistry

The Muffat Collective & Choir of Christ Church St Laurence |  St John Passion Wednesday 6th April 2022 – Australian Digital Concert Hall Conductor – Sam Allchurch It is a rare treat in Australia to hear Bach’s St John Passion on period instruments, available to watch via delayed broadcast from the Australian Digital Concert Hall  in a performance by the

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Review: Heavenly Music of Bach’s Magnificat

Bach Akademie Australia Madeleine Easton – musical director Friday November 26, 2021 Christ Church St Laurence, Sydney A large and devoted audience greeted the Bach Akademie Australia in its concert of festive works by Johan Sebastian Bach in the delightful Christ Church St Laurence. Due to Covid restrictions on the arts over the last 18 months or so Sydney has

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Review: Alice Chance | Until We Gather Again

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] …Alice Chance reimagines the choral experience Last week The Australian Music Centre released the first of 13 Peggy Glanville-Hicks commissions for 2020 – Until We Gather Again by Alice Chance  – an aleatoric, audiovisual work for scattered choir, created in collaboration with the Leichhardt Espresso Chorus (LEC) under the direction of Michelle Leonard OAM.  You can view it here on

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Leichhardt Espresso Chorus’s Michelle Leonard OAM on reimagining Handel’s Messiah for 2019

Ahead of Leichhardt Espresso Chorus’s 21st birthday celebration, Messiah Reimagined, classikON’s Phillipa spoke to the group’s founder and Artistic Director, Michelle Leonard OAM, about her vision for the 2019 transformation of the Messiah, the composers’ design brief, and the power of arts organisations to facilitate conversations about contemporary issues facing Australia. The Leichhardt Espresso Chorus describe themselves as “a vibrant, enthusiastic

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ThoroughBass: Music to tap your foot to!

ThoroughBass, Mosman, 16 November 2014 ThoroughBass, a Sydney ensemble founded in 2009 and which performs lesser-known baroque and contemporary music, served up wonderful musical fare on Sunday afternoon in another of the St Luke’s Concert Series in Mosman. Diana Weston led from the harpsichord, and was joined by Anna Fraser (soprano) and Dr Shaun Ng (viol da gamba and baroque

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Song Company Dowland’s Lute will make you feel a part of the love, loss & frivolity

The Song Company are an exciting group of singers. If you hear them perform, you may well be blown away by their unique voices, musicianship and sensitivity to the texts that they bring to life in song. Their current concert series, ‘Dowland’s Lute‘, offers the Song Company’s wonderful voices, paired with Nigel North, Lutenist. It was my first time listening

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