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
This work features in our forthcoming Baroque Christmas program
This work can also be found on our Baroque Christmas CD
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.
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
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
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
Australian Chamber Choir
directed by Douglas Lawrence
Filmed live in concert
December, 2018
by Filmoo
Directed by Douglas Lawrence
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.
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 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
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
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
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
ACC8, directed by Douglas Lawrence
Extracted, with permission, from a Melbourne Digital Concert Hall live-stream, filmed on 24 May, 2020.
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
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