Splendour & Mystery

Photo of 3 choristers standing against wooden background

Saturday, 25 March 2023
7.30pm

Verbrugghen Hall
Sydney Conservatorium of Music

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Australian Digital Concert Hall

Artists

Sydney Chamber Choir

Sam Allchurch
Conductor

Camerata Antica
Led by Matthew Manchester

Program

Giovanni Gabrieli
Canzon seconda a 4
Jubilate Deo
Magnificat

Clare Maclean
Christ the King

Frank Martin
Mass for Double Choir

Heinrich Schütz
Deutsches Magnificat

Brooke Shelley
Heavenly Father

John Tavener
A Hymn to the Mother of God

The brilliance of brass and the warmth of the human voice, in a concert of resonances and reflections. From Renaissance masters Gabrieli and Schütz, the original ‘surround sound’, with multiple choirs calling to each other in glorious harmony. From British mystic John Tavener, a tantalising journey into eternity, with voices overlapping like waves on sand.

Australian composers Clare Maclean and Brooke Shelley draw on melodies of the past to create new worlds of transcendent beauty. And at the heart of this program, the exquisite Mass for Double Choir of the 20th-century Swiss composer Frank Martin: intensely private music created for the ears of God alone.


Where
Verbrugghen Hall
Sydney Conservatorium of Music

 

Date & Time
Saturday, 25 March 2023
7.30pm

Ticket Prices

Verbrugghen Hall

Premium $75 (Concession $65)
A Reserve $60 (Concession $55)
B Reserve $50 (Concession $45;
Student & Under 30 $30)

Booking fees apply.

Concession prices apply to holders of Commonwealth Health Care Cards, Pensioner Concession Cards and Seniors Health Cards as well as NSW Government Seniors Cards. The Student price applies to full-time students


Australian Digital Concert Hall

$24

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