In this entertaining hour of music for the Christmas season, the ACC8 treats you to a historical ‘pick of the pops’, from the late 1400s to the end of the Baroque period and beyond, including works from their Baroque Christmas CD. The possibilities are endless, so the program is strikingly different from previous concerts on the same theme. Barney Schwartz, writing in the Sydney Morning Herald stated “Most of the works are little known, but they are full of beauty, serenity and elegance.”
What’s on the program?
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Johann Sebastian Bach
In dulci jubilo*
*with alternate verses by Johann Walther
Two works by Michael Praetorius
Ein kind geborn;* Singt und klingt
*with alternate verses set by Bartholomaus Gessius
Two works by Heinrich Schütz
Das Wort ward Fleisch; O süsser Jesu Christ
Three Old French Carols
Anon Ding dong merrily on high harmonised by Charles Wood
Louis Claude Daquin Noel No.10 arranged by Elizabeth Anderson
Angels we have heard on high arranged by Elizabeth Anderson
Thomas Tomkins
Magnificat from the Second Service
Two German settings of the tune, Joseph Lieber
Johannes Eccard Resonet in Laudibus
Leonhard Schröter Josef, lieber Josef mein
Two Anonymous English Carols
Coventry Carol (1591); There is no rose
Australian Birds
Texts by Mark Tredinnick, Music by Alan Holley
The Carol of the Two Crows
The Carol of the Butcherbird
Two settings of A spotless rose
Herbert Howells A spotless rose
Michael Praetorius Es ist ein Ros entsprungen
Johann Sebastian Bach
The Motet: Lobet den Herrn alle Heiden
The ACC8 is Kate McBride, Katherine Lieschke, Isobel Todd, Elizabeth Anderson, Sam Rowe, Will Carr, Thomas Drent, Kieran Macfarlane
