Sydney University Graduate Choir with the Sydney University Graduate Orchestra performs brings you the soaring heights of Romantic music launching its 2018 concert season with performances of Nicolai’s Te Deum and Mendelssohn’s Psalm 42 & Psalm 114. Composed in 1832, Otto Nicolai’s Te Deum is a large-scale work for six soloists, chorus and orchestra. Today Nicolai…
The Sydney University Graduate Choir presents Mendelssohn’s first oratorio, the rarely performed St. Paul – or Paulus, sung in the original German. A musical masterpiece, this work was one of the composer’s most often performed during his lifetime. It revived the oratorio as a musical form, and subsequently led to a commission of Mendelssohn’s other great oratorio, Elijah. Telling…
Sydney University Graduate Choir, Guest Choir and Orchestra under music director Christopher Bowen OAM perform Handel’s perennial masterpiece, the oratorio Messiah. The soloists are Anita Kyle (soprano), Tim Chung (alto), Andrew Goodwin (tenor) and David Hidden (bass). The guest choir is drawn from communities across Sydney. Composed in 1741 and premiering in Dublin in March…