★★★★★
“Exquisite musicianship, exemplary precision and virtuosic control.”
Sydney Arts Guide, 2023
“Powerful and immaculate”
Limelight 2023
Take a moment to step inside the neo-gothic sandstone church near Wynyard station – St Philip’s on York Street – and be transported to another world. Three short Renaissance religious works by Flemish composer Orlando di Lasso are the perfect entrée for Maurice Duruflé’s Requiem. This work from 1947 is grounded in achingly beautiful chants to which he adds his modern French musical voice, steeped in mysticism and sensual harmonic lines played this time on the St Philip’s organ by the brilliant David Drury. Duruflé did not write a lot – but what we have has been crafted into exquisite perfection.
The intimacy and kaleidoscopic stained glass of St Philip’s on York Street makes an utterly beautiful setting for this short Friday night concert.
Friday 24 May at 7pm
St Philip’s Church, York Street, Wynyard
This performance will run for 60 minutes. No interval.
Orlando di LASSO
Adoramus te
Ave verum corpus
Timor et tremor
Maurice DURUFLÉ
Requiem
Sam Allchurch conductor
Chamber Singers
David Drury organ
General Admission $39
Concessions and Under 18s $35
A booking fee of $8.95 per transaction applies.