Sydney Chamber Choir Splendour & Mystery

Sydney Chamber Choir pairs Splendour with Mystery in its 2023 season launch concert.

The brilliance of brass and the warmth of the human voice feature in a concert of resonances and reflections. From Renaissance masters Gabrieli and Schütz, the original ‘surround sound’, multiple choirs will call to each other in glorious harmony. From British mystic John Tavener, there is a tantalising journey into eternity, with voices overlapping like waves on sand.

Australian composers Clare Maclean and Brooke Shelley draw on melodies of the past to create new worlds of transcendent beauty. And at the heart of this program, the exquisite Mass for Double Choir of the 20th-century Swiss composer Frank Martin: intensely private music created for the ears of God alone.

Conducted by the choir’s Artistic Director Sam Allchurch, the instrumental ensemble Camerata Antica will be led by Matthew Manchester

The Artists
Sydney Chamber Choir /Sam Allchurch Conductor/ Camerata Antica led by Matthew Manchester

The program
Giovanni Gabrieli: Jubilate Deo/Magnificat // Clare Maclean: Christ the King//Frank Martin: Mass for Double Choir//Heinrich Schütz: Deutsches Magnificat//Brooke Shelley: Heavenly Father //John Tavener: A Hymn to the Mother of God

Bookings

Also Livestreamed on Australian Digital Concert Hall.

Read about Sydney Chamber Choir’s recent album release.