Heirs & Rebels - Sydney Chamber Choir

3:00pm, Sun, 29 Sep 2024

  • Event Details
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  • Type of event: Concert
    Start time: 3:00pm
    End time: 4:30pm
    Description:
    Artists
    Sydney Chamber Choir
    Sam Allchurch | Conductor
    John Gaden | Narrator
     
    Celebrate the beauty of the English choral tradition with this array of Romantic masterpieces. Drawing inspiration from the simplicity of the Renaissance while revelling in a rich new harmonic landscape, this is music that opens up whole worlds of emotion.
     
    Treat yourself to the soaring grace of Stanford’s The Blue Bird and Elgar’s majestic Lux aeterna; taste the exquisite tenderness of Imogen Holst’s A Hymne to Christ, the gentle ecstasy of Gustav Holst’s Nunc dimittis and the wild rapture of Finzi’s love song My Spirit Sang All Day; feel the yearning of  Vaughan Williams’ Agnus Dei, the warmth of Judith Weir’s Love Bade Me Welcome and the poignant embrace of Parry’s Songs of Farewell. Join with us in discovering a new work by Australian composer Harry Sdraulig. And let Tavener’s transcendent Song for Athene fill you with joy.
     
    Program
     
    Edward Elgar Lux aeterna 
    Gerald Finzi My Spirit Sang All Day
    Imogen Holst A Hymne to Christ
    Gustav Holst Nunc dimittis
    Hubert Parry From Songs of Farewell
    My soul, there is a country
    Never weather-beaten sail
    At the round earth’s imagined corners
    Harry Sdraulig New work (World premiere)
    Charles Stanford The Blue Bird
    Thomas Tallis Why Fum’th in Fight
    John Tavener The Lamb and Song for Athene
    Ralph Vaughan Williams Agnus Dei, from Mass in G Minor
    Judith Weir Love Bade Me Welcome and a blue true dream of sky