This work features in our forthcoming Baroque Christmas program
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Year: 2026
Triste Noel, by Henry Handel Richardson
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.
Filmed live in concert at Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Middle Park, 8 December 2024, by 5stream.
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
28 November to 13 December 2026
Air from the Water Music, by GF Handel
Australian Chamber choir
directed by Lucien Fischer
arranged for five voices by Elizabeth Anderson
Book your seat now to see this live
as part of the ACC’s Encores program
Ode to Joy, L.v. Beethoven
ACC8, directed by Douglas Lawrence
Ode to Joy arranged for 8 voices by Elizabeth Anderson
Live-streamed from Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Middle Park
on 21 March 2021 Video by 5stream
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as part of the ACC’s Encores program
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 live performance features on the ACC’s newest CD: Encores
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as part of the ACC’s Encores program
Late Night Live
Liz Anderson talks to David Marr
about Agatha della Pietà
11 August 2026
slide show created by Alex Hedt
with permission from ABC Radio
Agatha’s Cantata, Vivaldi’s Gloria
is at the Scots’ Church, Melbourne
on Saturday 12 September at 5PM
Gloria, by Antonio Vivaldi
This is the opening of Vivaldi’s ever-popular Gloria, written while Vivaldi was acting as Maestro di Coro at the Ospedale della Pietà in Venice.
Agatha’s Cantata, composed by one of the orphans living at the Pietà during Vivaldi’s tenure there is a perfect companion piece.
Book now for Agatha’s Cantata, Vivaldi’s Gloria
Saturday 5 September at 3PM – Sterling Place Community Centre, DUNKELD
Saturday 12 September at 5PM – Scots’ Church, MELBOURNE
Watch the premiere of Agatha’s Cantata on Australian Digital Concert Hall
Second Movement, Cantata by Agatha della Pietà
The ACC is joined by the String Ensemble of Conservatorio Benedetto Marcello,
directed by Douglas Lawrence
Filmed live in concert at the Pisani Palace, Venice 16 July 2024
Experience this lost cantata live in concert
Buy your tickets now for Agatha’s Cantata, Vivaldi’s Gloria
in DUNKELD on 5 September and in MELBOURNE on 12 September
Cameras – Bruce Inglis and Rebecca Lena; Sound – Simone Corelli; Production/editing, Rebecca Lena
Watch the documentary on SBS On Demand.
Buy Agatha’s first CD (Keys to Heaven)
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Composers throughout history have pulled out all the stops to produce their most buoyant and engaging music for the Christmas season. The ACC entertains you with well known classics and a few surprises.Baroque Christmas 2026
Fourth movement, Cantata by Agatha della Pietà
Premiere, filmed live in concert at Palazzo Pisani, Venice, 16 July 2024
Reconstruction by Elizabeth Anderson
Australian Chamber Choir
with the Conservatorio Benedetto Marcello String Ensemble
directed by Douglas Lawrence
Buy your tickets now for Agatha’s Cantata, Vivaldi’s Gloria
in DUNKELD on 5 September and in MELBOURNE on 12 September
Cameras – Bruce Inglis and Rebecca Lena; Sound – Simone Corelli; Production/editing, Rebecca Lena
Fifth movement, Cantata by Agatha della Pietà
Premiere, filmed live in concert at Palazzo Pisani, Venice, 16 July 2024
Reconstruction by Elizabeth Anderson
Australian Chamber Choir, Kate McBride and Katherine Lieschke – Sopranos
with the Conservatorio Benedetto Marcello String Ensemble
directed by Douglas Lawrence
Buy your tickets now for Agatha’s Cantata, Vivaldi’s Gloria
in DUNKELD on 5 September and in MELBOURNE on 12 September
Cameras – Bruce Inglis and Rebecca Lena; Sound – Simone Corelli; Production/editing, Rebecca Lena
The Cantata – ‘Ecce nunc’, Finale, by Agatha della Pietà
Premiere, filmed live in concert at Palazzo Pisani, Venice, 16 July 2024
Reconstruction by Elizabeth Anderson
Australian Chamber Choir, Kate McBride – Soprano
with the Conservatorio Benedetto Marcello String Ensemble
directed by Douglas Lawrence
A documentary, entitled Agatha’s Story, coming to SBS TV on 11 August 2026, tells of the discovery and reconstruction of this work – the only surviving composition by an orphan of the Ospedale della Pietà – and the ACC’s premiere performances of it.
Cameras – Bruce Inglis and Rebecca Lena; Sound – Simone Corelli; Production/editing, Rebecca Lena
Abendlied, by Josef Rheinberger
A C C 8 directed by Douglas Lawrence
Filmed live in concert
from Mandeville Hall Toorak, June 2020
by 5stream.com
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as part of the ACC’s Encores program
Warum, by Johannes Brahms
Johannes Brahms Motet, Op 74 No 1
Australian Chamber Choir
Directed by Douglas Lawrence
Sound courtesy of ABC Classic FM
Film by Filmoo
Recorded live in concert
at Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Middle Park
24 June 2018
This is the first work on the ACC’s Great Romantic Voices Program, at 3PM on Saturday 13 June in Dunkeld and on Sunday 21 June in Melbourne
Nimrod, by Edward Elgar
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
Filmed in concert by Filmoo.com.au
Sound courtesy of ABC Classic FM
Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Middle Park
24 June, 2018
See this live as part of the ACC’s Great Romantic Voices in Dunkeld on Saturday 13 June or in Middle Park on Sunday 21 June, or watch on Australian Digital Concert Hall.