Australian Chamber Choir
directed by Douglas Lawrence
Soloists: Amelia Jones, Elspeth Bawden, Anish Nair, Lucas Wilson-Richter
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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.
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Power in Stillness features on the 2025 CD release, Gold.
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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.
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This work is on the CD A Baroque Christmas
Image: Meteor shower, Shutterstock
O Lord, save thy people, by Claudio Merulo
Australian Chamber Choir
directed by Douglas Lawrence
Filmed live in concert
at St Martin-in-the-Fields
Tuesday 16 July, 2019
by Wright Media UK
Post-production by Filmoo
Merulo’s Mass Cara la vita mia is on the program for the forthcoming Agatha in Vivaldi’s Venice concerts
Hamilton (Sat 13 April), Geelong (Sun 21 April), Melbourne (Sun 5 May), Macedon (Sat 25 May)
I had a dream by Brenton Broadstock
directed by Douglas Lawrence
filmed live
at Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Middle Park
June 2018
Film by Filmoo
Sound courtesy of ABC Classic FM
Hear this as part of the ACC’s Transports of Delight
3PM on 2 March Thomson Memorial Church, TERANG
3PM on 3 March Our Lady of Mount Carmel, MIDDLE PARK (MELBOURNE)
Mendelssohn at St Martin-in-the-Fields
Felix Mendelssohn Denn er hat seinen Engeln befohlen
Filmed live in concert at St Martin-in-the-Fields, London, 16 July, 2019 by Wright Media.
Post production by Filmoo.com.au
Hear this as part of the ACC’s Transports of Delight 24 February to 3 March
Farewell Song, by Beethoven
The Australian Chamber Choir received a standing ovation in July 2019 when they performed this in Bonn’s Remigiuskirche. This is the church where Beethoven’s parents were married, where he was baptized, and where he had his first job as an organist at the age of twelve.
Image: Beethoven’s Funeral, watercolour, Franz Xaver Stöber (1795–1858), Beethoven-Haus Museum, Bonn
Heu Me, by Vicente Lusitano
Heu me Domine, by Vicente Lusitano (?–c.1561)
Filmed live in concert at
St Martin-in-the-Fields, London
16 July 2019
by Martin Wright Media
The ACC gave this work its first Australian performance on 16 June 2019.
Hear this as part of the ACC’s Agatha in Vivaldi’s Venice
3PM on 5 May, The Scots’ Church MELBOURNE
3PM on 13 April, St Andrew’s HAMILTON*
5PM on 21 April, Basilica of St Mary of the Angels GEELONG
3PM on 25 May, Church of the Resurrection MACEDON
*Presented in partnership with the Hamilton Gallery, Emerging from Darkness exhibition, featuring paintings of Italian female artists of the Baroque. Ticket includes a guided tour of the exhibition at 1PM and light refreshments.
Legend, by Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
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.
Nimrod, by Edward Elgar
Edward Elgar
‘Nimrod’, from the Enigma Variations Op.36
Premiered in London, 19 June, 1899
Arranged by Elizabeth Anderson for 8-part choir
Premiered in Melbourne, 24 June, 2018
Filmed in concert by Filmoo.com.au
Sound courtesy of ABC Classic FM
Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Middle Park
24 June, 2018
O Jesulein Süss, by JS Bach
Elspeth Bawden – Soprano, Elizabeth Anderson – Organ
Filmed live in concert at Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Middle Park
Sunday 9 December 2018, by Filmoo. Sound by Move Records
This performance is available on the CD
A Baroque Christmas
Hear Elspeth live, singing Allegri’s Miserere
as part of the ACC Sistine Chapel program
12–20 August 2023
Motet: Lobet den Herrn, by JS Bach
directed by Douglas Lawrence
Filmed live in concert at Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Middle Park
on Sunday 9 December, 2018. Film by Filmoo
Sound by Move Records
This is available on the CD A Baroque Christmas auschoir.org/cds
Tambourine, by Claude Debussy
from Three Songs of Charles d’Orleans
Number 17 on the ACC’s Top Ten shortlist
Australian Chamber Choir, directed by Douglas Lawrence
Soprano soloist – Amelia Jones
Filmed live in concert at St Martin-in-the-Fields, 16 July 2019
by Wright Media UK. Post-production by Filmoo