Paul Stanhope:
A New Requiem
Saturday 13 March | 7.30pm
City Recital Hall
Presented by City Recital Hall and Sydney Chamber Choir
PAUL STANHOPE
Conductor
SYDNEY CHAMBER CHOIR
SYDNEY SYMPHONY FELLOWS
Callum Hogan, Oboe
Richard Shaw, Clarinet
Jordy Meulenbroeks, Bassoon
SYDNEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Euan Harvey, Horn
CHLOE LANKSHEAR
Soprano
RICHARD BUTLER
Tenor
EMILY GRANGER
Harp
JESS CIAMPA
Percussion
GIFFORD
Mother Earth / Minga Bagan
VICTORIA
Versa est in luctum
FINSTERER
When soft voices die
MACMILLAN
Miserere
PAUL STANHOPE
Requiem (World premiere)
Award-winning composer and former Sydney Chamber Choir Music Director Paul Stanhope returns to lead the choir in the world premiere performance of his Requiem, the centrepiece of a program exploring themes of mortality, hope, ritual and commemoration.
It's a conversation between old and new: the sumptuous Spanish Renaissance polyphony of Tomás Luis de Victoria, with the contemporary Australian voices of Mary Finsterer and Indigenous composer Brenda Gifford. James MacMillan's Miserere is a choral tour de force, taking up dual notions of solemnity and virtuosity. Paul Stanhope’s Requiem is a major new work of transcendent beauty and healing that brings together settings of the Latin Mass for the Dead with poetry by Emily Dickinson, Mary Elizabeth Frye and Oodgeroo Noonuccal.
Paul Stanhope’s Requiem was commissioned by Sydney Chamber Choir with generous funding support from The Russell Mills Foundation
“With a breadth of repertoire, musicality and the kind of unified sound that only a group of singers that have sung together for a long time can bring, Sydney Chamber Choir combines well-known works with extraordinary commissions of new Australian works. Come to be both comforted by the warm and familiar, and challenged and inspired by something new.”
Sébastien Maury
Baritone
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