Join the Muffat Collective for Neapolitan Madness, an afternoon of musical drama and excitement, featuring Australian soprano, Anna Sandström. This concert is the last in the popular Spring Series for 2017 and explores passionate cantatas and dramatic concerti by Antonio Vivaldi and his contemporaries. As always, the concert includes a mouth-watering selection of cakes and…
Sydney Chamber Choir/Muffat Collective Great Hall, University of Sydney 6 October 2017 Written by Wendy McLeod The Great Hall of the University of Sydney was packed out when the Sydney Chamber Choir conducted by Roland Peelman and accompanied by the Muffat Collective, presented an early music programme of love and loss which featured madrigals by…
Two of Sydney’s finest early music ensembles perform together when “Marais meets Muffat.” “French clothes, French food, French furniture, French customs, French sins, French illnesses are generally in vogue.” claimed a philosopher of the day, Christian Thomasius, in 1687, although some would beg to add music to the list! French musicians, not just French customs, had…