The Voyage of Musical Discovery series was established and designed by the Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra’s founding artistic director and world-renowned educator Richard Gill.
Each Voyage begins at 6.30pm and finishes at 8.00pm on a weekday in Sydney, and is equal parts concert and demonstration. The co-artistic directors, Rachael Beesley and Nicole van Bruggen present each Voyage with musicians of the Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra in the first half, and a contemporary guest artist or ensemble is featured in the second half.
Voices & Instruments explores how orchestras and choirs blend sounds and tones into a cohesive whole. Together with guest presenter Neal Peres Da Costa, the Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra’s expert chamber musicians introduce the collaborative interplay of instruments – and their roles and personalities – in Franz Berwald’s Grand Septet, a delightful piece that beautifully balances winds and strings.
Sydney Chamber Choir regularly commissions and premieres works by established and emerging Australian composers to support and celebrate the high-quality music being created here and now. They explain and present a varied selection of Australian choral works and highlight some of the many original ways that composers turn voices into instruments, and instruments into voices.
Photo credit: Pedro Greig
VOYAGE OF MUSICAL DISCOVERY 2 VOICES & INSTRUMENTS
Tuesday 4 May 2021 | 6.30pm
City Recital Hall, 2-12 Angel Place, Sydney
ARTISTS & PROGRAM
Australian Romantic &
Classical Orchestra
FRANZ BERWALD | Grand Septet in B-flat major (1828)
Sydney Chamber Choir
BRENDA GIFFORD | Mother Earth / Minga Bagan (2020)
ELLA MACENS | Stāvi Stīvi, Ozoliņ (2019)
CLARE MACLEAN | A West Irish Ballad (1988)
PAUL STANHOPE | Agnus Dei (Do not stand at my grave and weep) (2016)
Combine VOYAGE OF MUSICAL DISCOVERY 2 – VOICES & INSTRUMENTS with EVOKE | BEETHOVEN & BERWALD.
Tuesday 4 May 2021 | 6.30pm
Thursday 6 May 2021 | 7.00pm
City Recital Hall
2 Angel Place, Sydney
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