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Selby & Friends launch their 2017 season with a national tour of Youth & the Dance. Rising star, Australian violinist Grace Clifford joins American cellist Clancy Newman and Artistic Director and pianist Kathryn Selby, AM for this tour which highlights the diversity of the piano trio. On the programme are Ludwig van Beethoven’s Piano Trio in…
Sunday Afternoon Bach Cantata At St James’
The Choir of St James’ invites you Cantata & Cream Tea, featuring Cantata BWV 162, Ach! ich sehe, itzt, da ich zur Hochzeit gehe (Ah! I see, now, when I go to the wedding) by JS Bach, followed by tea and scones in the crypt. Thought to have been composed c 1715 in Weimar, this cantata has six movements, scored…
The Twentieth Century In Music From The Australia Ensemble@UNSW
The Australia Ensemble@UNSW presents its April concert themed around the American composer Martin Bresnick’s ensemble piece My Twentieth Century. This work by Bresnick (b1946) who teaches at Yale University, reflects, at times whimsically and reflectively, on the troubled century passed – a century of terrible conflict but also great discovery and renewal. In musical terms, this troubled century covers…
The Choir Of St James In Melbourne – A Requiem For Anzac Day
The Consort of Melbourne and the Choir of St James’ King Street, Sydney join forces in Melbourne to present A Requiem for Anzac Day, the centrepiece of which will be Brahms Ein deutsches Requiem (A German Requiem). Under the direction of Warren Trevelyan-Jones, the ensembles continue their concert series War & Peace with motets by Schütz and JS Bach accompanying Brahms’ masterpiece. Inspired in part…
The Sirius Chamber Ensemble Presents ‘Voices in Exile’
The Sirius Chamber Ensemble focuses on the music of composers who worked under the communist regimes in the former Soviet Union. Their creativity flourished despite the repressive environment in which they lived and despite heavy censorship, fear of deportation or death, composers in this period produced some of the most profound music of the…
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