Pinchgut Opera’s recent highly acclaimed performance of Messe de Minuit written over 400 years ago by Marc-Antoine Charpentier, is now available to watch online. Charpentier wrote the Messe de Minuit, or midnight mass, for Christmas Eve mass, while master of music at the Church of Saint-Louis in Paris. Professionally filmed and recorded, the concert includes…
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…
Young Handel – Thoroughbass Diana Weston, harpsichord/ Shaun Ng, viola da gamba/ Anna Fraser, soprano The Independent Theatre, North Sydney/Sunday March 26th 2017 Written by Victoria Watson The Independent Theatre with its live acoustic and elegant neo-classical architecture was the perfect venue for Thoroughbass’s delightful concert dedicated to the early Italian chamber works of Georg Friedrich Handel…