Fresh from their successful tour of Asia, Sydney Chamber Choir starts the year with their Easter concert of which the centrepiece is Fauré’s Requiem, with The Metropolitan Orchestra and soloists Belinda Montgomery and Alexander Knight. Conducting this concert will be Richard Gill OAM, the incoming music director of the Sydney Chamber Choir. Fauré’s Requiem is more a lullaby of…
Chamber/cello – There are two outstanding chamber music events in April with the Sitkovetsky Trio presented by Music Viva performing the music of Smetana, Beethoven (the Archduke Trio) and the world premiere of a new work by Carl Vine, commissioned for Music Viva by Julian Burnside AO QC to commemorate the composer’s 60th birthday. April…
The Sydney Consort presents an evening of exquisite devotional music composed throughout the years especially for Good Friday. Caldara’s masterpiece Stabat Mater is the centerpiece of this concert. Written for soprano, alto, tenor and bass with trombones, strings and organ, the poignant arias and the dramatic beauty of this work stems from writing that is heartfelt and distinctly…