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)
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.
Hear this as part of the ACC’s Transports of Delight 24 February to 3 March
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.
Heu me Domine, by Vicente Lusitano (?–c.1561)
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
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)
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.
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
ACC8, directed by Douglas Lawrence AM