For their 2017 Lenten concert, the Choir of Christ Church St Laurence will be performing J. S. Bach’s incomparable Mass in B Minor. Written for 5-part chorus with orchestra and soloists, this setting of the Latin Mass was completed in 1749, the year before his death. It was Bach’s last finished work. Dr Neil McEwan…
Celebrating the name day of St Cecilia, the patron saint of music, Josie and the Emeralds present the annual St Cecilia’s Day concert under the auspices of the Glebe Music Festival. Josie Ryan, soprano, will be directed by Brooke Green who will play the viol along with Laura Moore, Fiona Ziegler, Catherine Upex and Jacques Emery on double bass with Amy…
The Sydney Consort presents chamber, vocal and instrumental music from the French Baroque in Concert Royale, a programme filled with majestic music which has been the source of the ensemble’s love affair with French baroque music for many years. The major influence which France exerted during the baroque period was one of courtly opulence. In 1669 Louis…