Melbourne Baroque Orchestra

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Melbourne Bach Choir continues a wonderful tradition in exemplary fashion

Melbourne Bach Choir and Melbourne Baroque Orchestra | St Matthew Passion Johann Sebastian Bach 3 April 2026, Melbourne Recital Centre, VIC with Ripieno Choir from The Yarra Voices Conductor, Rick Prakhoff  Evangelist, Andrew Goodwin; Jesus, Adrian Tamburini; soprano, Lorina Gore; mezzo-soprano, Sally-Anne Russell; tenor Henry Choo; bass-baritone, Simon Meadows; bass-baritone, Christopher Hillier   J.S. Bach’s St Matthew Passion is literally the

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Richard Excell

ACC and MBO’s Bach was ‘on an elevated plane’

Australian Chamber Choir & Melbourne Baroque Orchestra | Bach’s Mass in B minor 22 March 2026 3pm, The Scots’ Church Melbourne, VIC Directed by Douglas Lawrence J. S. Bach’s B minor Mass is one of the wonders of music history. Composed and repurposed for various reasons over many years, it somehow became an organic monument of his choral art. If

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Daniel Brace

Downright fabulousness for MBO’s 10th anniversary

Melbourne Baroque Orchestra | Celebrating 10 Years of Melbourne Baroque November2, 2025, Church of All Nations, Carlton, VIC “While music is my field and plow, and serves to give me many of my keenest pleasures, I have lately attached myself to a new suitor, namely the love of flowers.” (1742) – Georg Phillip Telemann  The stage was set with two

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MBO presents a delicious tapestry of sound

Melbourne Baroque Orchestra | Le Bellezze D’Italia 24 August 2025, Toorak Uniting Church, VIC Baroque Harp: Hannah Lane; Theorbo: Nicholas Pollock; Violins: Tim Willis, Shane Lestideau, Stephanie Eldridge, Taé Heine; Cello: Josephine Vains; Viola da Gamba: Laura Vaughan; Harpsichord: Linda Kent. Works by Allegri, Marini, Uccellini, Merula, Legrenzi, Falconieri, Vivaldi, Bassani, Corelli and Handel. The Melbourne Baroque Orchestra continued their

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Richard Excell

MBO & Craig Hill’s sensitive exploration of the glorious basset clarinet

Craig Hill with the MBO Classical Quartet | Mozart Clarinet Quintet 28 June 2025, St Stephen’s Anglican Church, Richmond, VIC Craig Hill, basset horn and basset clarinet; Cameron Jamieson and Meg Cohen, violins; Caroline Henbest, viola; Rosanne Hunt, cello Craig Hill’s expertise in historical clarinets covers a wide range of periods and types, but in this concert the focus was

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Prakhoff with MBO performed an accomplished and committed Passion

Melbourne Bach Choir & Melbourne Baroque Orchestra | J.S. Bach, St John Passion Good Friday April 18, 2025, Melbourne Recital Centre, VIC Conducted by Rick Prakhoff Vocal Soloists: Christopher Hillier, baritone; Jeremy Kleeman, bass-baritone; Simon Meadows, baritone; Jacqueline Porter, soprano; Timothy Reynolds, tenor; Sally-Anne Russell, mezzo-soprano; Christopher Watson, tenor J.S. Bach’s St John Passion is heartland territory for both of

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Masterful MBO pleases with a performance of perfect taste

Melbourne Baroque Orchestra | Telemann in Paris March 13, 2025, Church of All Nations, Carlton, VIC Greg Dikmans, traverso; Shane Lestideau, violin, viola d’amore; Josephine Vains, cello; Laura Vaughan, viola da gamba; Samantha Cohen, theorbo The Melbourne Baroque Orchestra kicked off their Tenth Anniversary series with an ingeniously constructed and delightfully performed set of duets and quartets, based around two

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MBO’s lesser known quartets from the masters, a wonderful delight

Melbourne Baroque Orchestra Classical Quartet | The Emergence of the String Quartet 27 July 2024, St Stephen’s Anglican Church, Richmond If Haydn is the acknowledged ‘father’ of the string quartet, did he conceive of the form or simply nurture it to maturity? If the latter, then who were the quartet’s earlier ancestors? Appearing as part of the St Stephen’s recital

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MBO and Mime Brinkmann exemplify collective mastery of the baroque idiom

Melbourne Baroque Orchestra with Mime Brinkmann, Cello | Bellissimo Cellissimo April 26, 2024, Williamstown, VIC In the resonant acoustics of Williamstown’s Holy Trinity Anglican Church, the Melbourne Baroque Orchestra presented an exquisite evening of cello-centric compositions entitled “Bellissimo Cellissimo”. The performance not only showcased the ensemble’s rich tone and precise intonation but also highlighted the virtuosic talents of guest soloist

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An exceptionally poignant and stirring St Matthew Passion with Melbourne Baroque Orchestra

Melbourne Baroque Orchestra | St Matthew Passion 24 March, 2024, Ian Potter Centre for Performing Arts, Monash University Michael Fulcher, Christopher Watson, Nicholas Dinopoulos, Amy Moore, Alexander Ritter, Andrew Goodwin, David Greco, Polyphonic Voices, The Choir of Trinity College, Australian Boys’ Choir, Melbourne Baroque Orchestra The magnitude of the endeavour to perform Johann Sebastian Bach’s crowning work, the Matthäus-Passion, cannot

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Daniel Brace

Thrilling opening night of the Organs of the Ballarat Goldfields Festival

Organs of the Ballarat Goldfields | Recital 1 January 12, 2024,  St Patrick’s Ballarat Program G.F. Handel’s Alexander’s Feast (1736/51) Artists The Alchemy Consort and the Melbourne Baroque Orchestra  Directed by Gary Ekkel Alexander’s Feast (HWV 75) is a setting of an ode by Newburgh Hamilton by the illustrious G.F Handel. Sung in English, the story revolves around a banquet

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MBO delivered a gorgeous performance, pleasing in every way

Melbourne Baroque Orchestra | Galant Gala December 3, 2023, Toorak Uniting Church​ Sanssouci has a handful of rooms and a huge garden full of exotic plants, pathways and fountains. Including the garden, it must be the smallest palace in Europe, and it is located in Potsdam in what was the Kingdom of Prussia. It’s the palace Frederick the Great built

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Daniel Brace

Yap’s Chocolate Viola a feast for the ears and the soul

Melbourne Baroque Orchestra | The Chocolate Viola Performance 15 Oct, 2023 – reviewed from the live recording I’m so grateful that over the past few years we have really gotten used to enjoying live music both in the concert venue and also at home, thanks to good quality live streaming and recording. But in this case, I think the live

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Melbourne Baroque Orchestra celebrates Telemann

Melbourne Baroque Orchestra | Wallfisch and Telemann December 4, 2022, Toorak Uniting Church Poor old Georg Philipp Telemann. Famous and successful across Europe as a musician, Kapellmeister and composer during his lifetime, these days Telemann’s name dwells in the very long shadows cast by his contemporaries JS Bach, Vivaldi and Händel. Which is unfair really, given that he was at

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Review: Melbourne Baroque Orchestra – Bursting back onto the scene

Melbourne Baroque Orchestra | Courting the Timpani February 13, 2022, 3pm at Toorak Uniting Church Right now is a very special time to attend concerts. Musicians whose diaries had previously been overrun found themselves without any bookings, but suddenly had plenty of time for practice and self-reflection. Now that live concerts are finally reappearing (without being almost immediately cancelled!), the

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