The Sydney University Graduate Choir’s August concert is dedicated to the music of Ludwig van Beethoven, featuring his Mass in C major and the Cantata on the Death of Emperor Joseph II. The Mass reveals an intensely personal and vividly dramatic response to the traditional Mass text. His Cantata clearly breathes the spirit of enlightenment…
Sydney University Graduate Choir with the Sydney University Graduate Orchestra performs brings you the soaring heights of Romantic music launching its 2018 concert season with performances of Nicolai’s Te Deum and Mendelssohn’s Psalm 42 & Psalm 114. Composed in 1832, Otto Nicolai’s Te Deum is a large-scale work for six soloists, chorus and orchestra. Today Nicolai…
The Sydney University Graduate Choir presents Mendelssohn’s first oratorio, the rarely performed St. Paul – or Paulus, sung in the original German. A musical masterpiece, this work was one of the composer’s most often performed during his lifetime. It revived the oratorio as a musical form, and subsequently led to a commission of Mendelssohn’s other great oratorio, Elijah. Telling…