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
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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
Introducing Raffaella Aleotti
Marian Consort
Ego flos campi
by Raffaella Aleotti
Born in Ferrara c.1570; died there c.1646.
Ego flos campi, et lilium convallium.
Sicut lilium inter spinas, sic amica mea inter filias.
Sicut malus inter ligna silvarum, sic dilectus meus inter filios.
I am the flower of the field, the lily of the valley.
Like a lily among thorns, so is my beloved among daughters.
As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among sons.
The ACC will sing this beautiful motet in its Australian premiere as part of our Renaissance Requiem program (July 26 to November 8) 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.
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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.
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Power in Stillness features on the 2025 CD release, Gold.
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Air from the Water Music, by GF Handel
Australian Chamber choir
directed by Lucien Fischer
arranged for five voices by Elizabeth Anderson
The ACC performed this arrangement as part of its Encores program in November 2024, and have recorded it alongside a similar (and newer) arrangement from Handel’s Fireworks, to be released on their forthcoming Encores album.
Live streamed in partnership with the
Melbourne Digital Concert Hall
from Mandeville Hall Toorak
on Sunday 15 November 2020
sound and video by 5stream
We Wish You a Merry Christmas, by Charles Wood
directed by Douglas Lawrence
filmed live in concert at Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Middle Park
on 8 December 2024
by 5stream
This was an encore to conclude the ACC’s Baroque Christmas program.
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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
Lauda Jerusalem, by Claudio Monteverdi
Australian Chamber Choir
directed by Douglas Lawrence
Filmed live on location in Venice, at the Basilica of St Mark’s 14/7/24, at Palazzo Pisani 16/7/24 and in Lugano at Ceresio Estate (Ceresio Summer festival) 17/7/24.
Sound – Simone Corelli 16/7/24; Cameras – Francesca Corelli, Simone Corelli, Bruce Inglis, Rebecca Lena.
Production Simone Corelli.
This work was presented live as a part of the ACC’s Agatha in Vivaldi’s Venice program.
The ACC in Koksijde, Belgium
Video courtesy of soprano, Victoria Brown
Sound: Cara la vita mia, by Giaches de Wert
Ceresio Summer festival, Lugano, Switzerland,
17 July, 2024 Sound recording by Simone Corelli
The ACC in Bruges
Video courtesy of soprano, Victoria Brown
Sound: Cara la vita mia, by Giaches de Wert
Ceresio Summer festival, Lugano, Switzerland,
17 July, 2024 Sound recording by Simone Corelli