★ ★ ★ ★ 1/2
“Powerful and immaculate”
– Limelight, 2023 –
A limited number of printed program books will be available for $10 each at the concert.
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This program will also be presented in Canberra.
Saturday 24 August, 2.30pm
Snow Concert Hall, 40 Monaro Crescent, Red Hill ACT
Baroque Treasures | Tickets from $63.30 | BOOK CANBERRA TICKETS HERE
The Baroque era gave us splendid architecture and magnificent art. It also inspired glorious music that resonated under the gilded domes and painted ceilings of Italy’s great chapels, that echoed from balcony to balcony in St Mark’s, Venice.
We invite you to step back to this visionary age when music evoked powerful emotions with striking and dramatic musical imagery – even in church!
This transcendent program featuring our Chamber Singers and an ensemble of period instruments begins with Domenico Scarlatti’s intense, almost graphic setting of the Stabat Mater – inviting empathy with the very real grief of Mary at the foot of the cross. It’s followed by expressions of faith and joy, and a fervent mass setting by Monteverdi. Through it all you’ll hear the voices of the Chamber Singers, weaving together in 4, 8, 10 or more parts. A choir, yes, but also an ensemble of individual virtuosos working as equals-in-harmony as they move you to ecstasy, and tears, in this celebration of the Italian Baroque.
Friday 16 August at 7pm
St James’, King Street, Sydney
This performance will run for 1 hour and 30 minutes including a 20-minute interval, concluding at approximately 8.30pm.
Giovanni GABRIELI Hodie completi sunt dies Pentecostes
Claudio MONTEVERDI Messa a 4 voci, SV 190
Giacomo CARISSIMI Dixit Dominus
Antonio CALDARA Crucifixus a 16 voci
Domenico SCARLATTI Stabat Mater
Antonio LOTTI Crucifixus a 8 voci
Brett Weymark conductor
Chamber Singers
Sydney Philharmonia Baroque Ensemble
Premium $80 (a limited number of rows located in a premium area of the church)
General Admission $70
(Concessions and Under 30 tickets not available for this concert.)
A booking fee of $8.95 per transaction applies.
A limited number of printed program books will be available for $10 each at the concert.