On Wednesday 16 December (8:30pm AEST) Bach Akademie Australia presents Weihnachtsfreude on the Melbourne Digital Concert Hall (MDCH) in a program that celebrates the joy of Christmastide and the music of J.S. Bach.

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Please note this is a LIVE stream via MDCH

From the MDCH website:

Digital Ticket: $20 (direct to artist) plus a $4 charge for credit card fees and streaming costs.

MDCH Helpline: 1300 994 208 

Artists:

Madeleine Easton – Director/Violin
Matthew Greco – Violin
Rafael Font – Violin
Nicole Forsyth – Viola
Daniel Yeadon – Cello
Kirsty McCahon – Violone
Neal Peres da Costa – Organ/Harpsichord
Nathan Cox – Organ
Mikaela Oberg – Flute
Susannah Lawergren – Soprano
Hannah Fraser – Alto
Richard Butler – Tenor
Andrew O’Connor – Baritone

Programme:

J.S. Bach – Motet BWV 230 ‘Lobet den Herrn’ 

J.S. Bach – Arias from Part II of the Christmas Oratorio BWV 248

‘Frohe Hirten, eilt, ach eilt!’ (Soloist: Richard Butler)

‘Schlafe, mein liebster’ (Soloist: Hannah Fraser) 

J.S. Bach – Brandenburg Concerto No.5 in D major BWV 1050

(Soloists: Neal Peres Da Costa, Mikaela Oberg, Madeleine Easton) 

J.S. Bach – Cantata BWV 133 – ‘Ich freue mich in dir’

1. Sinfonia/chorus

2. Aria ‘Getrost, es faßt ein heil’ger Leib – alto

3. Recitative – tenor

4. Aria ‘Wie lieblich klingt es in den Ohren’ – soprano

5. Recitative – bass

6. Chorale

Join us for a program of Christmas Joy to celebrate the coming season which will be all the more meaningful for us all after the events of 2020.

The music of J.S. Bach once again provides endless inspiration and hope. Our four wonderful vocalists will feature in Bach’s motet ‘Lobet den Herrn’, and his ebullient cantata for Christmas, ‘Ich freue mich in dir’, which Sir John Eliot Gardiner describes as conveying the ‘sheer exhilaration of Christmas.’

Neal Peres Da Costa will shine in the fiendishly difficult but joyful Brandenburg Concerto No. 5, as will tenor Richard Butler and alto Hannah Fraser in two beautiful arias from Part II of Bach’s Christmas Oratorio.

Presenting Partner: National Art School