Original English text by American poet, Richard Henry Stoddard (1856)
Translated into Russian by Aleksey Plescheyev (1877)
Set (originally in Russian) by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1878)
Filmed live in concert
at Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Middle Park
23 October 2011
Video by Neil Lawrence
Sound Courtesy of ABC Classic FM
Singers are, from left to right:
Front row, Altos: Elizabeth Anderson, Myfanwy McIndoe, Helen Seymour, Zoe Wong, Sopranos: Biddy Healey, Ailsa Webb, Cailin Howarth, Erika Tandiono, Bronwyn Ryrie-Jones, Felicity Young
Back row, Tenors: Robin Czuchnowski, Jacob Lawrence, Andrew Collyer, Thomas Dalton, Basses: Andrew Moffat, Tom Healey, Tom Drent, Simon Gannon. Seated Rhys Boak – organ.