The Sydney Consort – Mediterranean Baroque

The Sydney Consort – Mediterranean Baroque

The Sydney Consort 2017 concert season opens with the program Mediterranean Baroque, with music by composers living in south Italy, Sicily, Malta, Turkey and Spain. The music contains typical dance like rhythms heard in Folia, Ciaccona, Malaguena, Passacaille and Fandango with their southern flavor, unique rhythms and sensual harmonies, making them distinct from baroque music in other European countries. Music by Gaspar Sanz,…

The Sydney Consort: Many Strings Attached

The Sydney Consort: Many Strings Attached

The Sydney Consort presents a rare combination of  early instruments when two violas d’amore are joined by the viola da gamba, theorbo and harpsichord in music composed especially for these great instruments. Stan Kornel playing baroque violin and viola d’amore and harpsichordist Monika Kornel will perform with Ross Mitchell playing viola d’amore and Shaun Ng playing…

The Majesty Of The French Baroque From The Sydney Consort In ‘Concert Royale’

The Majesty Of The French Baroque From The Sydney Consort In ‘Concert Royale’

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…