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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.

Read more about Palestrina 500

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WATCH PALESTRINA ON ACCess  The Australian Chamber Choir’s Excellent Streaming Service brings you Palestrina on demand.

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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.
WATCH VIVALDI’S GLORIA … NOW

Power in Stillness features on the 2025 CD release, Gold.
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Gloria, by Antonio Vivaldi

HAPPY BIRTHDAY Antonio Vivaldi, born on 4 March 1678!

Celebrate the occasion with the opening of his 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’

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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