The Sacred Music of J S Bach/Bach Akademie Australia St Francis of Assisi Catholic Church, Paddington 21 April, 2018 Formed a year ago in April 2017, by violinist Madeleine Easton, the Bach Akademie Australia has gathered a formidable reputation as interpreters of the music of JS Bach. Their latest performance was an immersion in his…
Sydney Chamber Choir/Muffat Collective Great Hall, University of Sydney 6 October 2017 Written by Wendy McLeod The Great Hall of the University of Sydney was packed out when the Sydney Chamber Choir conducted by Roland Peelman and accompanied by the Muffat Collective, presented an early music programme of love and loss which featured madrigals by…
The Sydney Chamber Choir performs the music of Monteverdi, Gesualdo and Purcell in their October concert which includes a complete concert performance of Purcell’s masterpiece, the opera Dido and Aeneas. Monteverdi takes us to the lonely shores of Naxos, where Ariadne, having sacrificed everything to save her beloved Theseus from the claws of the Minotaur, watches…