The ACC4’s program for Good Friday steps outside the events normally associated with this day to draw a wider picture of faith, meditation and hope. The program brings together music from Renaissance Italy and Elizabethan England and concludes with Bruckner, Brahms and Elgar.
The Australian Chamber Choir was established by Douglas Lawrence in 2007. From the beginning, many concert programs have involved smaller groups of singers and since 2017, eight singers (identified as the ACC 8) have given concerts in Melbourne and regional Victoria.
We are grateful to the Melbourne Digital Concert Hall for making this live performance possible by providing a safe environment in which our singers can work.
In this evening’s performance by the ACC4, under the direction of Douglas Lawrence, Ailsa Webb is the soprano, Elizabeth Anderson the alto, Matthew Bennett the tenor and Jerzy Kozlowski the bass.
GOOD FRIDAY with the ACC 4
Directed by Douglas Lawrence
From Renaissance Italy
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525–1594) Sicut Cervus
Marc Antonino Ingegneri (1545–1592) In Monte Oliveti
Felice Anerio (1560–1614) Christus factus est
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina Super Flumina Babylonis
From Elizabethan England
William Byrd (1543–1623) from the Mass for Four Voices
Kyrie, Sanctus/Benedictus, Agnus Dei
Orlando Gibbons (1583–1625) Almighty and everlasting God
Christopher Tye (?1497–1572/3) Sing unto the Lord
William Byrd Ave verum corpus
From 19th Century Europe
Anton Bruckner (1824–96) Locus Iste
Johannes Brahms (1833–1897) Ach, arme Welt
Edward Elgar (1857–1934) As torrents in Summer