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Australian Chamber Choir Streams Beethoven Celebration

March 21, 2021 @ 3:00 pm

It’s never too late to celebrate a birthday and the Australian Chamber Choir celebrates the 250th birth anniversary last year of Beethoven with a live streamed concert which you can watch in real time and/or watch on demand for a month after the concert.

In this Beethoven salon, they will introduce you to some of Beethoven’s friends and acquaintances with some rarely performed treasures, including a first Australian performance of his Elegy Op.118.

The programme:

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827): FIVE CANONS: Glück zum neuen Jahr – Happy New Year for Johann Freiherrn von Pasqualati/ Lieber Mälzel for Johann Nepomuck Mälzel/ Kühl nicht Lau for Friedrich Kuhlau/ Hofmann und kein Hofmann for Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann/
O Tobias for Tobias Haslinger

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750): An Wasserflüßen Babylon

Gordon Kerry (born 1961):Seven Last Words

Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958):Valiant for Truth

Ludwig van Beethoven: THREE PART SONGS -Song of the Monks/ Farewell Song/ Elegy Op. 118 (1814) dedicated to Johann Freiherrn von Pasqualati

Francis Poulenc (1899–1963) (not available as part of the online performance): Four Motets for a Time of Penitence

For copyright reasons, some works may be excluded from the live-stream and/or on demand performance

Details

Date:
March 21, 2021
Time:
3:00 pm
Event Tags:
Website:
https://www.auschoir.org/live-stream/

Venue

Online. See booking link below.