Concert Review: JS Bach Mass in B Minor/ The Song Company And Ironwood.

Concert Review: JS Bach Mass in B Minor/ The Song Company And Ironwood.

JS Bach’s Mass in B minor BWV 232 is described by Sir John Eliot Gardiner in his recent book Bach, as “unprecedented  in its scale, majesty and sobriety.” An ensemble taking on a performance of this masterwork has an exacting task in doing it justice. That task becomes even more formidable when the ensemble reaches…

Thoroughbass Presents Tout Français – Refinement Or Decadence?

Thoroughbass Presents Tout Français – Refinement Or Decadence?

With its roots in early music, Thoroughbass presents French courtly music and song, featuring the richly amber tones of the viola da gamba – an instrument beloved by Bach and by the French – from an era characterised by formality, procedure and excess, but also subtlety and ambiguity. Is this the ultimate in refinement and bon gout or mannered…

The Keys To Our Sonorous Garden

The Keys To Our Sonorous Garden

The Keys to our Sonorous Garden showcases two of the nation’s favourite sopranos, Anna Fraser and Jane Sheldon, supported by an ensemble of exceptional Australian early music specialists from Pinchgut Opera, the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Latitude 37 and the Australian Haydn Ensemble. The concert also features international guest artist, Albert-Jan Roelofs from the Netherlands’ The Wallfisch…