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Transports of Delight

As we prepare for our eighth European concert tour, this program takes you on a virtual tour of cities where the ACC has performed: Visit Henry Purcell in London, Anton Bruckner in Vienna, Allegri and Palestrina in Rome, César Franck and Olivier Messiaen in Paris, Beethoven in Bonn, Felix and Fanny Mendelssohn in Berlin, Brenton Broadstock in Melbourne and JS Bach in Leipzig.

Itinerary

LONDON
Henry Purcell (1659–95) If music be the food of love, Dido’s Lament

VIENNA
Anton Bruckner (1824–96) Locus Iste

ROME
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525–94) Viri Galilaei
Gregorio Allegri (1582–1652) Christus resurgens

PARIS
Olivier Messiaen (1908–92) O sacrum convivium
César Franck (1822–90) Panis angelicus

BONN
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827) Elegische Gesang
Abschiedsgesang

BERLIN
Fanny Hensel (1805–47) Abendlich schon rauscht der Wald
Felix Mendelssohn (1809–47) Der hat seinen Engeln befohlen über dich, Lift thine eyes

MELBOURNE
Brenton Broadstock (born 1952) I had a dream

LEIPZIG
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750) Der Geist hilft unser Schwachheit auf 

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