Concerts

Concerts

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The Great Ma(y)tinee

We are opening our 2024 concert season with our Great Ma(y)tinee concert. This relaxed and varied concert celebrates the joy of choral singing and has become a favourite of choir and audience alike. This year’s lively program features the popular Misa Criolla by the Argentine composer Ariel Ramírez that combines the Spanish language with Argentine and Latin dance rhythms. The mass is contrasted with Schubert’s triumphant Mirjams Siegesgesang (Song of Victory), a choral ballad on Israel’s Exodus from Egypt, accompanied by other choral works by Brahms and Schumann. Relax, listen and enjoy exquisite music.

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Ultimate Baroque

Our 2024 August concert will transport you to the end of the Baroque era at the Royal courts of Dresden in Saxony and London in England. The opulent Missa Ultima in G minor with brilliant, extended trumpet parts is the Opus ultimum of the 84-yearold Johann Adolf Hasse, who for almost three decades dominated musical life at the Saxon Court of Dresden and was regarded as the musical idol of his era. At the same time, Handel who composed his triumphant Dettingen Te Deum for the Victory at the Battle of Dettingen against the French army in 1743, dominated musical life at the English court.

SYDNEY SINGS®

For the final concert in our 2024 concert series we welcome our Sydney Sings…® guest choristers to join us for Dvořák’s Stabat Mater, one of the most moving works of choral music. Dvořák turned to the ancient text of the Stabat Mater after the loss of three of his children, seeing in its evocation of Mary’s grief a portrait of parental love and pain that he related to on the most personal level. Throughout the work, the mood shifts from grief and near despair to hope and faith, culminating in the ecstasy of the finale with its overwhelming confidence and comfort in the Christian belief of paradise after death.

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The Creation

We conclude our 2023 concert series with Haydn’s The Creation and welcome our Sydney Sings…® guest choristers to sing with us. This masterwork with its monumental choruses and imaginative arias cemented Haydn’s fame around the world and depicts the creation of the world as described in the Book of Genesis and Milton’s Paradise Lost. It is a glorious celebration of the wonders of life. The fusion of exuberance, originality, classical elegance and intellectual power was immediately hailed everywhere and will also touch today’s listeners.

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SYDNEY SINGS®
The Creation

We conclude our 2023 concert series with Haydn’s The Creation and welcome our Sydney Sings…® guest choristers to sing with us. This masterwork with its monumental choruses and imaginative arias cemented Haydn’s fame around the world and depicts the creation of the world as described in the Book of Genesis and Milton’s Paradise Lost. It is a glorious celebration of the wonders of life. The fusion of exuberance, originality, classical elegance and intellectual power was immediately hailed everywhere and will also touch today’s listeners.

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