The Sydney Consort’s programme Musical Friends is a reunion of composer colleagues and friends. The concert features the two most predominant musical figures of the eighteenth century – contemporaries Telemann and Handel and showcases their association and friendship. The Sydney Consort comprising Stan w Kornel playing baroque violin & viola d’amore with Monika Kornel at the harpsichord,…
Harpsichordist and director of Thoroughbass, Diana Weston is joined by guest artist Jane Downer playing the baroque oboe and Shaun Ng playing the viola da gamba in O for an Oboe, a concert featuring some of the most beautiful music created by Johann Sebastian Bach and his son Emmanuel. The combination of oboe and gamba is…
The Sydney Consort launches its 2014 concerts with Con Amore, a programme of popular classics which highlight the viola d’amore and oboe d’amore, with strings flute and continuo. Opening the concert is JS Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto no 5 in D major, BWV 1050, followed by his Concerto for Oboe d’amore with soloist Jane Downer. Following this is a work by…