9

to Jun 15

Concerts, Canberra, Digital Concert, MDCH, Melbourne, New Music, Sydney, The Song Company, ADCH

Songs of Rosa Mystica / Song Company

Fri, Jun 9, 2023 7:30 PM 19:30 Thu, Jun 15, 2023 9:30 PM 21:30
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MUSIC OF BRITTEN, SAARIAHO AND GYGER

9-15 June
Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne and online

The Song Company's second program Songs of Rosa Mystica, led by Guest Music Director Jack Symonds, is a program of contemporary masterworks for unaccompanied voices. From Elliott Gyger's mighty 1994 work Ficta, through excepts of Benjamin Britten's A.M.D.G. and works by Tippett, Saariaho and Symonds himself, The Song Company will challenge your perception of what the human voice is capable.

Susannah Lawergren, Amy Moore, Jessica O'Donoghue, Timothy Reynolds, Simon Lobelson and Andrew O'Connor

GUEST MUSIC DIRECTOR

Jack Symonds

WITH

Ben Carey, Sound Designer

COMPOSERS

Elliott Gyger, Benjamin Britten, Jack Symonds, Michael Tippett, Kaija Saariaho

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Aug

27

to Aug 29

Bach Akademie Australia, Concerts, MDCH, Sydney

CANCELLED: Bach Akademie Australia

Fri, Aug 27, 2021 7:30 PM 19:30 Sun, Aug 29, 2021 4:30 PM 16:30
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Amongst all of Bach’s wonderful output, his more than 200 cantatas stand out as one of the greatest musical achievements of the human race. The vast majority of these masterworks are dedicated to the glory of God, but what we are perhaps less aware of is that Bach wrote a small but wonderful collection of cantatas for secular occasions. As few as 20 of these works survive, however they provide a wonderful insight into a composer who approached secular music with the same artistic integrity and demand for quality that we find in his sacred music. We present his much loved Wedding Cantata featuring the Australian soprano Susannah Lawergren, as well as his lesser known but haunting Funeral Cantata BWV 198. Artistic Director Madeleine Easton will then perform Bach’s reconstructed Violin Concerto in D major BWV 1053, finally ending with his marvellous satirical comedy, the Coffee Cantata sung by the renowned Australian baritone Simon Lobelson and soprano Chloe Lankshear.

Program

J.S. Bach Cantata ‘Weichet nur, betrübte Schatten’ Wedding Cantata BWV 202

J.S. Bach Cantata ‘Laß Fürstin laß noch einen Strahl’ Funeral Cantata BWV 198

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J.S. Bach Violin Concerto in D major BWV 1053

J.S. Bach Cantata 'Schweigt stille, plaudert nicht’ Coffee Cantata BWV 211

Location

Friday & Saturday 27-28 August, The Cell Block Theatre, National Arts School, cnr Burton St & Forbes St, Darlinghurst

Sunday 29 August, Church of Holy Name Parish, Wahroonga

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Bach Akademie Australia / MDCH / Weihnachtsfreude

Dec

16

8:30 PM20:30

Concerts, Melbourne, Special Events, Sydney, MDCH, Bach Akademie Australia

Bach Akademie Australia / MDCH / Weihnachtsfreude

Wednesday, December 16, 2020
8:30 PM 9:30 PM 20:30 21:30
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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.

MDCH is an incredible platform that has now raised almost $1 Million for Australian artists during the Covid-19 pandemic - offering you the ability to purchase digital tickets (just $24) from the comfort of your own home that directly support the artists on stage.

Please visit the link HERE for more information (also below) and to purchase tickets.

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

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