In their first concert for this year the Sydney University Graduate Choir will perform a varied program of pieces by Beethoven, Fauré, Saint-Saëns, Brahms and others.
The Song Company returns to the main stage with Brahms’ mighty romantic masterpiece performed as a powerful chamber work in this intimate version for an ensemble of soloists and two pianos.
Pinchgut Opera returns to some of its favourite repertoire with The Spiritual Forest performed in Sydney and Melbourne, drawn from Monteverdi’s Selva morale e spirituale (1641), his great anthology of liturgical works composed in Venice.
The Sydney University Graduate Choir's first concert for 2022 will be a curated collection of choral and instrumental pieces which includes music by Dowland, Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms, Saint-Saëns, Fauré, Bowen and Bernstein.
Castalia Vocal Consort presents Under Cover of Darkness, a concert featuring songs of nocturnal landscapes and night-time wanderings.
Buxtehude’s monumental meditation on suffering and the human body reimagined with contemporary Indigenous choreography from Karul Projects, and a major new Australian work from Chris Williams, setting words by Behrouz Boochani.
Pinchgut Opera, Australia’s specialists in Baroque vocal and orchestral music, presents Women of the Pietà by Vivaldi, performed in both Sydney and Melbourne and featuring and ensemble of female singers with soloist Miriam Allan and curated by Erin Helyard.
Castalia Vocal Consort presents Her Eyes, a musical and artistic exploration of Mary as a woman outside of her spiritual status. It features music by Alice Chance, Brooke Shelley, Herbert Howells, Elliot Gyger and Francis Poulenc, paired with the artworks of artists including Botticelli, Da Vinci, and Picasso.
The Sydney University Graduate Choir performs Handel's magnificent oratorio Esther in the grand surroundings of the Great Hall of Sydney University.