Bach’s Universal Light Bach Akademie Australia Melbourne Digital Concert Hall October 2, 2020 It was a concert for our times when the Bach Akademie Australia presented Bach’s Universal Light, on Melbourne Digital Concert Hall. Livestreamed from the Cellblock Theatre at Sydney’s National Art School, founder and artistic director of the BAA, Madeleine Easton, gathered an…
The Bach Akademie Australia’s Easter programme features counter-tenor Reginald Mobley’s astonishingly beautiful voice in Bach’s poignant cantata BWV 82 ‘Ich habe genug’ with the celebrated Australian baroque oboist Anna Starr. Cantata BWV 42 Am Abend aber desselbigen Sabbats follows with a message of hope and comfort. Then the highlight will be one of Bach’s best…
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…