Sydney Chamber Choir and City Recital Hall are staging Handel’s mighty Messiah just as the master wanted it, stripped of centuries of amplified orchestration and giant choirs, with exactly 24 handpicked singers and 20 early music instrumentalists. This Sydney Chamber Choir concert marks the Choir’s 45th anniversary. The concert continues a charitable tradition begun by…
Comfort and Joy – Cantatas for Christmas Bach Akademie Australia Christ Church St Laurence, Sydney 29 November 2019 First there was Comfort – the cantata Süßer Trost BWV 151, by J S Bach, followed by his Orchestral Suite No 2 in B minor BWV 1067. Then the heavens opened in an outpouring of Joy with…
Acis and Galatea/ Ensemble Polyphème Paddington Uniting Church 10 November 2019 Written by Alex Siegers Ensemble Polyphème is Sydney’s newest “historically informed” performance ensemble” founded by harpsichordist Nathan Cox and tenor Nathan Bryon. For its inaugural season the ensemble presented Acis and Galatea, (HWV 49), a musical work by George Frideric Handel with an English text…