Christ Church St Laurence Commemorates The Reformation With The Music of J S Bach

Christ Church St Laurence Commemorates The Reformation With The Music of J S Bach

To commemorate the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, the Choir of Christ Church St Laurence and Bach Akademie Australia present a (mostly) Bach concert with a programme that culminates in the wonderful Cantata BWV 80, Ein feste Burg featuring soloists Josie Ryan (soprano), Janine Harris (mezzo-soprano) Richard Butler (tenor) and David Russell (bass) followed by Reger’s…

The Brandenburg orchestrates A meeting of ‘beautiful minds’

The Brandenburg orchestrates A meeting of ‘beautiful minds’

Judging by its popularity amongst listeners of ABC Classic FM as Australia’s most popular composition by Mozart, the Clarinet Concerto in A Major K.622  is listened to an awful lot. Some of these performances would be on a modern ‘liquorice stick’ clarinet, not the basset clarinet, which was the instrument of Mozart’s time for which he would have written the…