This traditional Ukrainian new year’s carol, arranged by Mykola Leontovych (1877–1921), is sung by the ACC in the original unaccompanied Ukrainian language version. Click on the ‘CC’ button beneath the video for English subtitles. The text of the original ‘Shchedryk’ tells of a little swallow flying into a house and promising its owner good things in the new year. This carol became popular in the USA when the Ukrainian National Chorus toured there in 1922. English language lyrics were subsequently added by American composer Peter Wilhousky. (The text bore no relation to the original words, and repurposed the song as a Christmas carol). With a new title, ‘Ukranian Carol of the Bells’, the work was recorded in over 150 versions. It was incorporated into a number of Hollywood soundtracks, most notably with an orchestration supplied by John Williams for the 1990 motion picture, ‘Home Alone’. In its Ukrainian language version, the carol serves as a reminder to humankind to remain optimistic in the face of adversity.
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Triste Noel, by Henry Handel Richardson
Henry Handel Richardson (1870–1946). Famous for her novel The Getting of Wisdom, Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson was born in Melbourne in 1870. During and after her period of study at the Leipzig Conservatory of Music, she was a prolific composer. This work sets a poem by the Massachusetts-based Louise Imogen Guiney.
Filmed live in concert at Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Middle Park, 8 December 2024, by 5stream.
Ein Kind geborn zu Bethlehem, by Michael Praetorius
directed by Douglas Lawrence
Filmed live in concert at Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Middle Park
by Filmoo, Sunday 9 December 2018. Sound by Move Records
Gloria, by Antonio Vivaldi
This is the opening of Vivaldi’s ever-popular Gloria, written for the orphans of the Ospedale della Pietà in Venice. Watch the complete work, along with the ACC’s premiere of a the first work ever to be performed in modern times by one of the orphans of the Pietà – Agatha’s Cantata.
Click below to watch ‘Vivaldi’s Gloria, Agatha’s Cantata’
Singt und klingt, by Michael Praetorius
This cheeky piece by Praetorius features in our Baroque Christmas program and on the CD of the same name.
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Australian Chamber Choir
Directed by Douglas Lawrence
Filmed live in concert, 9 December 2018
at Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Middle Park
by Filmoo. Sound by Move records
Image: Fra Angelico, Nativity (1440-41), fresco, St Mark’s Monastery, Florence
Vom Himmel hoch – From heaven on high, by Martin Luther
Words and melody attributed to Martin Luther
Harmonised by Adam Gumpelzhaimer
Directed by Douglas Lawrence
Filmed live in concert at Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Middle Park
by Filmoo on Sunday 9 December 2018. Sound by Move records
Halleluja by Andreas Hammerschmidt
Australian Chamber Choir
directed by Douglas Lawrence
Filmed live in concert
December, 2018
by Filmoo
Resonet in laudibus, by Johannes Eccard
Directed by Douglas Lawrence
Filmed live in concert at Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Middle Park
by Filmoo on Sunday 9 December 2018. Sound by Move records
This lively work appears on the ACC’s A Baroque Christmas CD and is featured in the Baroque Christmas 2025 concert, accessible via Australian Digital Concert Hall.
Es ist ein Ros entsprungen, by Michael Praetorius
This work features in our forthcoming Baroque Christmas program
This work can also be found on our Baroque Christmas CD
directed by Douglas Lawrence
Filmed live in concert at Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Middle Park
by Filmoo, Sunday 9 December 2018. Sound by Move Records
In dulci jubilo, by Samuel Scheidt
Australian Chamber Choir directed by Douglas Lawrence
Filmed live in concert at Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Middle Park
by Filmoo, 9 December 2018
Sound by Move Records
In Dulci Jubilo, by JS Bach
In dulci jubilo nun singet und seid froh!
In sweet rejoicing now sing and be glad!
Australian Chamber Choir directed by Douglas Lawrence
Anonymous melody,
harmonised by JS Bach (Verses 1 and 4) and Johann Walter (verses 2 and 3)
This work will be performed as the first work on the Baroque Christmas 2025 program, in Dunkeld, Macedon, Middle Park (Melbourne) and Terang
Filmed live in concert at Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Middle Park
by Filmoo on Sunday 9 December 2018. Sound by Move records
Ave Maria, by Josquin des Prez
Happy Fathers’ Day!
Josquin des Prez was nicknamed “the father of music”
This Ave Maria by Josquin appears on the ACC’s Baroque Christmas CD
Filmed live in concert
at Our Lady of Mount Carmel,
20 August 2023
Thumbnail: Gerard David, ‘Adoration of the Kings’, oil on panel, c.1555, National Gallery, London
Ego flos campi, by Raffaella Aleotti
When Raffaella Aleotti published her Sacred Songs in Venice in 1593, she became the first female composer to publish a collection of sacred music.
Ego flos campi
Australian Chamber Choir directed by Elizabeth Anderson
Filmed live in concert at Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Middle Park on Sunday 17 August 2025
Watch the full Renaissance Requiem concert (including Gordon Kerry’s new Requiem) via ACCess or Australian Digital Concert Hall.
The Silver Swan, by Orlando Gibbons
This work was voted number 10 in Top Dozen, the ACC’s survey of favourite unaccompanied choral works in 2022.
ACC 8
directed by Douglas Lawrence
Hear music by Gibbons as part of the ACC’s Renaissance Requiem program. Learn more
Recorded live in concert on 24 May 2020
Video courtesy of Australian Digital Concert Hall
Alchemy, by Gordon Kerry
This time last year, the Australian Chamber Choir gave eleven performances in Europe. This video was filmed at the Swiss international festival known as ‘Ceresio Estate’, a series of summer concerts in churches around Lake Lugano. European Audiences were fascinated by the Australian works on the program, which included this setting of William Shakespeare’s Sonnet XXXIII, by Gordon Kerry.
On their return to Australia, the ACC performed their 2024 international tour program at the Church of the Resurrection in Macedon. You can watch the full concert on ACCess.
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Alchemy is the first track on the 2025 CD release, Gold.
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A new work by Gordon Kerry can be heard in the ACC’s next program: Renaissance Requiem
Benedictus, by William Byrd
Australian Chamber Choir, directed by Douglas Lawrence
Filmed live in concert at Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Middle Park,
20 August 2022. Camera and production by 5stream
William Byrd’s Ave verum is part of the ACC’s Renaissance Requiem program. Read more