Australian Chamber Choir
directed by Douglas Lawrence
Filmed live in concert
December, 2018
by Filmoo
This work forms part of the ACC’s Baroque Christmas
29 November to 13 December 2025
Watch/Listen Category: Video
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 forthcoming Baroque Christmas 2025 concerts. Read more
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
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
Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem, by Thomas Tomkins
Choir of the Scots’ Church
directed by Douglas Lawrence
Filmed live at the Scots‘ Church
on Sunday 14 June 2025
Video courtesy of the Scots’ Church
This work is part of the ACC’s Renaissance Requiem program. Read more
When David heard that Absalom was slain, by Thomas Tomkins
ACC8, directed by Douglas Lawrence
Extracted, with permission, from a Melbourne Digital Concert Hall live-stream, filmed on 24 May, 2020.
This work is the first piece on the ACC’s Renaissance Requiem program. Read more
Come again, by John Dowland
ACC8, directed by Douglas Lawrence
Filmed live in concert on 24 May 2020. Video courtesy of Australian Digital Concert Hall
Hear another madrigal by John Dowland as part of the ACC’s Renaissance Requiem program. Read more
Palestrina’s jewel
Agnus Dei II (excerpt), from the Missa Aeterna Christi Munera, by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Recorded live in concert by Move Records, 24 November, 2019
This work appears on the ACC’s Keys to Heaven CD and will be performed as part of a program celebrating Palestrina’s 500th birthday.
Read more about Palestrina 500
BUY TICKETS to the concert, Sat 17 May (Dunkeld) and Sun 25 May (Melbourne)
WATCH PALESTRINA ON ACCess The Australian Chamber Choir’s Excellent Streaming Service brings you Palestrina on demand.
Images shown are of the church of Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome (the favourite church of the late Pope Francis, and now his resting place), where Palestrina sang from the age of eleven as a choir boy and was director of the choir from 1551 to ’66.
Three beautiful birds of paradise by Maurice Ravel (1914/15)
Australian Chamber Choir
directed by Douglas Lawrence
Soloists: Amelia Jones, Elspeth Bawden, Anish Nair, Lucas Wilson-Richter
BOOK NOW to hear another French chanson – Josquin’s Mille regrets – as part of the ACC’s Palestrina 500 program
Filmed live in concert
at Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Middle Park
24 June 2018
Video by Filmoo
Sound courtesy of ABC Classic FM
Image: Birds of Paradise (2010) Hand-coloured etching by Angus Fisher, courtesy of www.australiangalleries.com.au
Bach in Venice
Australian Chamber Choir
Directed by Douglas Lawrence
Encore from the Pisani Palace Concert, Venice
Filmed live on 16 July 2024
The Motet, Singet dem Herrn BWV 225 (third movement), by Johann Sebastian Bach
Singet dem Herrn II, by JS Bach
This video was filmed at the Swiss international festival known as ‘Ceresio Estate’, a series of summer concerts in churches around Lake Lugano. This is the second movement from the Motet, Singet dem Herrn.
Filmed and produced by Simone Corelli
St Christopher’s Church, Caslano,
17 July 2024
During 2021, the ACC performed all six of Bach’s Motets in one concert:
Watch the full Bach’s Genius – The Motets concert from 2021 on ACCess.
Power in Stillness, by Christine McCombe
In July 2024, the Australian Chamber Choir gave eleven performances in Europe. This concert was presented by the Swiss international festival known as ‘Ceresio Estate’, a series of summer concerts in churches around Lake Lugano. European Audiences were fascinated by this new work by Christine McCombe.
Power in Stillness, commissioned by the ACC, was premiered in 2022 as part of a Melbourne concert entitled Vivaldi’s Gloria, Agatha’s Cantata, which also premiered a newly-discovered work by Agatha della Pietà (1712–69). You can watch the full concert on ACCess.
WATCH VIVALDI’S GLORIA … NOW
Power in Stillness features on the 2025 CD release, Gold.
BUY GOLD CD NOW
Gloria, by Antonio Vivaldi
HAPPY BIRTHDAY Antonio Vivaldi, born on 4 March 1678!
Celebrate the occasion with the opening of his 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’
Sweelinck for Christmas
Australian Chamber Choir
directed by Douglas Lawrence
Filmed live in concert
at St Martin-in-the-Fields
on 16 July 2019
by Wright Media UK
Post production by Filmoo
This work forms part of the ACC’s Baroque Christmas
7 to 14 December 2024
O magnum mysterium, by Giovanni Gabrieli
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
Hear this live at the ACC’s Baroque Christmas concert: 7–14 December, 2024.
BOOK NOW MORE ABOUT THE CONCERT
This work is on the CD A Baroque Christmas