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.
Year: 2025
Ein Kind geborn zu Bethlehem, by Michael Praetorius
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
Singt und klingt, by Michael Praetorius
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
Vom Himmel hoch – From heaven on high, by Martin Luther
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
Halleluja by Andreas Hammerschmidt
Australian Chamber Choir
directed by Douglas Lawrence
Filmed live in concert
December, 2018
by Filmoo
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 Baroque Christmas 2025 concert, accessible via Australian Digital Concert Hall.
In dulci jubilo, by Samuel Scheidt
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, 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
The Silver Swan, by Orlando Gibbons
This work was voted number 10 in Top Dozen, the ACC’s survey of favourite unaccompanied choral works in 2022.
ACC 8
directed by Douglas Lawrence
Hear music by Gibbons as part of the ACC’s Renaissance Requiem program. Learn more
Recorded live in concert on 24 May 2020
Video courtesy of Australian Digital Concert Hall
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.
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
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