This is the opening of Vivaldi’s ever-popular Gloria, written for the orphans of the Ospedale della Pietà in Venice. Watch the complete work, along with the ACC’s premiere of a the first work ever to be performed in modern times by one of the orphans of the Pietà – Agatha’s Cantata.
Click below to watch ‘Vivaldi’s Gloria, Agatha’s Cantata’
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.
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.
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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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