Sydney Antiphony presents ĠEŌL//Now make we joy in this feste… a concert of Yuletide music ancient and new that highlights the carols of the 15th Century Ritson manuscript. Exploring Advent and Christmas music through the ages, the program takes a tour from early English composers, such as Smerte, Lambe and Packe, through the likes of Holst and Warlock,…
Sydney Antiphony will present its first concert for 2016 entitled MEMORIAE, a selection of Lenten music which explores continuity, change and new beginnings in a series of works spanning over 600 years. From the Medieval three-part chansons of Machaut, to the genius Franco-Flemish polyphony of Ockeghem, Josquin and Richafort, to the Romantic inclinations of Poulenc…
Sydney Antiphony, one of Sydney’s finest vocal ensembles presents MYSTERIUM, an introspective look at Christmas music spanning five centuries, in which rarely heard gems of Renaissance polyphony are paired with twentieth century masterpieces. Poulenc’s Four Motets for Christmas (Quatre motets pour le temps de Noël) stands at the core of MYSTERIUM which includes works by the Renaissance masters Palestrina, Victoria and Lassus. The concert…