Sydney Chamber Choir Crowns the Choral Year
The People’s Choice Sat 23 November 5pm at the Con
-There’s a delicious assortment of popular favourites on the menu for music lovers when the Sydney Chamber Choir crowns its bumper year with the People’s Choice concert.
Saturday, 23 November at 5.00pm is the time and Sydney Conservatorium’s Verbrugghen Hall is the spectacular place for the climactic choral event of 2024.
Sydney Chamber Choir presents Winter Nights
The seductive beauty of French song: join us for an intimate evening featuring timeless ballads by cabaret legends Edith Piaf and Jacques Brel, irresistible flights of fantasy from Debussy and Ravel, while Poulenc reveals the dark secrets concealed by stillness in his winter cycle A Snowy Evening. Australian composer Heather Percy explores the mysterious beauties of day’s end in the world premiere performance of her Three Night Songs, and choral icon Eric Whitacre carries us gently into the mysterious world of dreams with the lush harmonies of Sleep.
Sydney Chamber Choir
Sam Allchurch, Conductor
Naomi Crellin, Guest Director
Jo Lawry, Vocalist
Steve Barry, Piano
Hannah James, Double bass
George Greenhill, Drums
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After a stellar year of sell-out concerts, and having polled its fans and all the concert-going public, the choir has come up with a holiday season treat to satisfy all tastes.
“We asked our audience for their favourites, and then put them all together into one glorious evening of choral delights,” says conductor and artistic director Sam Allchurch.
“There’s something for everyone – the sublime polyphony of the Renaissance, the glory of Bach, the warmth of the Romantics…
and the Australian composers who have made a home in our hearts.
And whether it’s music from centuries past or music hot off the press, music on a grand scale or music for intimate occasions,
music throbbing with passion or sparkling with humour… we can’t wait to sing it for you!”
Program:
- Bach – Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied
- Jonathan Dove – Ring out, wild bells from The Passing of the Year
- Maurice Duruflé – Ubi caritas et amor
- Gabriel Fauré – Cantique de Jean Racine
- Handel – Zadok the Priest
- Lennon/McCartney, arr Whitwell – Yesterday
- Clare Maclean – Christ the King
- Monteverdi – Christe, adoramus te
- Henry Purcell/Sven-David Sandström – Hear my prayer, O Lord
- Rachmaninoff – Bogoroditse Devo (Ave Maria) from All-Night Vigil
- Joe Twist – From Timeless Land: An Australian Song Cycle, Magpie & Lorikeets
- Victoria – O magnum mysterium
- Vivaldi – From Gloria: Gloria in excelsis Deo & Cum sancto spiritu
People’s Choice
Sydney Chamber Choir, Conductor: Sam Allchurch
Saturday 23 November 5pm to 6.30pm
Verbrugghen Hall, Sydney Conservatorium of Music
Tickets from $35 | Bookings www.sydneychamberchoir.org
