Ensemble Offspring And Ironwood Join For Broken Consorts

Ensemble Offspring And Ironwood Join For Broken Consorts

Clash or confluence? Ensemble Offspring, Sydney’s innovative New Music ensemble, and Ironwood, specialists in early music join forces to create new sounds in Broken Consorts. Ensemble Offspring says “Like floating through a forest, Broken Consorts envelops the audience in a cocoon of bristlings, warblings and ethereal reverberations—a musical experience that exists across and beyond time.”…

Tudor, Today And Tomorrow: Broken Consorts From Ironwood And Ensemble Offspring

Tudor, Today And Tomorrow: Broken Consorts From Ironwood And Ensemble Offspring

  Music from Tudor England meets contemporary sounds with a world premiere of a new Australian work when Ironwood and Ensemble Offspring combine a mix of old and new sounds in their Broken Consort series. Along with early music by William Lawes and Matthew Locke, the programme contains works by Mary Finsterer, Damien Ricketson and…

Concert Review: JS Bach Mass in B Minor/ The Song Company And Ironwood.

Concert Review: JS Bach Mass in B Minor/ The Song Company And Ironwood.

JS Bach’s Mass in B minor BWV 232 is described by Sir John Eliot Gardiner in his recent book Bach, as “unprecedented  in its scale, majesty and sobriety.” An ensemble taking on a performance of this masterwork has an exacting task in doing it justice. That task becomes even more formidable when the ensemble reaches…