For their second concert of 2015, Sydney Antiphony presents works by composers spanning 500 years, all exploring the inescapable human truth: the transience of our existence. At its centre, the concert features John Sheppard’s masterful Media Vita (‘In the midst of life we are in death’), a work groundbreaking in its length, structure and expressive…
Sydney Antiphony presents its second concert of 2014, Death and Venice, a programme centred around the monumental and macabre ‘Musikalische Exequien’ of 17th century German composer Heinrich Schütz. Taking its cue from Schütz’s beguiling masterpiece, the remaining programme examines death in all its facets and explores musical links between Italy and Germany in the sixteenth and seventeenth…
The Choir of St James’ King Street, will mark the launch of their 2013 season with Metamorphosis, a concert featuring a range of Renaissance and contemporary pieces. Directed by Warren Trevelyan-Jones, the programme will centre on the work of Carlo Gesualdo, marking the 400th anniversary of his death. The beauty of Gesualdo’s music is coloured by a dissonance…