Bach’s Universal Light Bach Akademie Australia Melbourne Digital Concert Hall October 2, 2020 It was a concert for our times when the Bach Akademie Australia presented Bach’s Universal Light, on Melbourne Digital Concert Hall. Livestreamed from the Cellblock Theatre at Sydney’s National Art School, founder and artistic director of the BAA, Madeleine Easton, gathered an…
Bach Akademie Australia presents ‘Bach’s Universal Light’ for Melbourne Digital Concert Hall, a journey from darkness into light through Bach’s universal genius, reflecting the difficult times for many of us this year. Performed in and broadcast from Sydney’s National Art School, ‘In memoriam’ for 2020, they begin with his haunting early cantata ‘Actus Tragicus’. Paring…
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…