Sydney Chamber Choir Heirs & Rebels

The Sydney Chamber Choir conducted by Sam Allchurch with narrator John Gaden celebrates the beauty of the English choral tradition in a concert called Heirs & Rebels, containing an array of sacred and secular Romantic masterpieces. Drawing inspiration from the simplicity of the Renaissance while revelling in a rich new harmonic landscape, this is music that opens up whole worlds of emotion.

As well as presenting the world premiere of a new work by Australian composer Harry Sdraulig, the program promises to deliver a treasury of choral music from soaring and graceful, to tender and ecstatic. It includes Stanford’s The Blue Bird and Elgar’s Lux aeterna, Imogen Holst’sA Hymne to Christ, Gustav Holst’s Nunc dimittis and Finzi’s rapturous love song My Spirit Sang All Day. As well, there is Vaughan Williams’ Agnus Dei, Master of the Queens’s Music, Judith Weir’s Love Bade Me Welcome, Parry’s Songs of Farewell and Tavener’s transcendent Song for Athene.

The concert will also be livestreamed on .

The performers: Sydney Chamber Choir/ Sam Allchurch | Conductor/ John Gaden | Narrator

The program: Edward Elgar Lux aeterna / Gerald Finzi My Spirit Sang All Day/ Imogen Holst A Hymne to Christ/Gustav Holst Nunc dimittis/ Hubert Parry From Songs of Farewell – My soul, there is a country, Never weather-beaten sail, At the round earth’s imagined corners/ Harry Sdraulig New work (World premiere)/ Charles Stanford The Blue Bird/ Thomas Tallis Why Fum’th in Fight/ John Tavener The Lamb and Song for Athene/ Ralph Vaughan Williams Agnus Dei, from Mass in G Minor/ Judith Weir Love Bade Me Welcome and a blue true dream of sky.

Read our review of Sydney Chamber Choir’s Mozart’s Requiem concert from April 2024.

Tickets: https://www.sydneychamberchoir.org/heirsandrebels

or call Sydney Chamber Choir Box Office 1300 661 738