CD Review: A Baroque Christmas/ Australian Chamber Choir/ Move Records

CD Review: A Baroque Christmas/ Australian Chamber Choir/ Move Records

The Australian Chamber Choir has released a CD of baroque Christmas music compiled from their ample archive of recent live performances. A Baroque Christmas is a small but rewarding compensation for the lack of live performing opportunities during 2020. The recordings are taken from concerts in Victoria in November and December of 2018 and 2019…

Concert Review: A Baroque Christmas/ Australian Chamber Choir

Concert Review: A Baroque Christmas/ Australian Chamber Choir

A Baroque Christmas Australian Chamber Choir St Mary’s Cathedral Crypt, Sydney 24 November 2018 Christmas isn’t Christmas without certain musical essentials. Anything seasonal by Sir David Willcocks and J S Bach, the melodies of Martin Luther and Michael Praetorius and the contrasting aesthetics of Lutheran simplicity with Baroque complexity, represent a dimension of Christmas music…

The Australian Chamber Choir: Bach In The Castle Of Heaven

The Australian Chamber Choir: Bach In The Castle Of Heaven

The Australian Chamber Choir directed by Douglas Lawrence OAM, brings its programme Bach In The Castle Of Heaven to Sydney and Bowral after a sell out performance in Melbourne. Director Douglas Lawrence OAM, renowned for his engaging programs, has taken as a starting point a comment made by John Eliot Gardiner in Bach: Music in the Castle of…