In 2015, choral ensemble Bel a cappella celebrates 20 years of performing with their inaugural concert at the beautiful, awe-inspiring Cell Block Theatre at the National Art School – a dramatic structure and a significant feature of Australia’s colonial and cultural heritage as it was once the Old Darlinghurst Gaol. Conducted by Music Director Anthony Pasquill, Bel a cappella…
After a sell-out performance in August, Bel a Cappella returns for its final concert for 2014, Puer Natus Est. This concert features the music of French composer Francis Poulenc, English composers Thomas Tallis and Herbert Howells and a rather unknown Catalan composer Bernat Vivancos. To quote Norwegian composer Lasse Thoresen, “Vivancos’ music is like a city of…
Bel A Cappella’s August concert which will be performed by candlelight, is named after the centrepiece of its programme, the Missa Papae Marcelli (“Pope Marcellus Mass”) by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina. The mass for six voices was composed c. 1561 and is dedicated to Pope Marcellus II, who established the Council of Trent which sought reform in the…