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Musical Director: Ian Burk
Three Pieces of Choral Music
Hobart Town Hall, Saturday 26 May 1990
Jane Franklin Consort (1, 4–6), Chris Behrens (org, 2, 3), TUMS (1, 3, 6), string orchestra (1) conducted by Ian Burk
(1) Johann Sebastian Bach, Cantata BWV 4 in E minor “Christ Lay in Death’s Dark Prison” (sung in English)
(2) Cesar Franck, Choral Nº 3 in A minor
(3) Gabriel Fauré, Cantique de Jean Racine, Op. 11
(4) Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky, The Crown of Roses
(5) Zoltán Kodály, Jesus and the Traders
(6) Ralph Vaughan Williams, Mass in G minor
The Jane Franklin Consort: Stephanie Abercromby, Charlotte McKercher (s), Beth Coombe, Joan Wright (a), Mark Irwin, Brian Yates (t), Peter Billam, John Panckridge (b)
This concert went reasonably well, except for the first movement of the Bach, where the quintet of string players got completely out of time, making Johann Sebastian’s harmonies sound a bit atonal for several bars. The Fauré was yummy of course. The Mass was sung well enough, although the choir (not the soloists) dropped pitch alarmingly.
TUMS Mid-Year Concert
Derwent Regional Library, Friday, and Peacock Gallery, Salamanca Place, following day (Saturday), ??July 1990
TUMS, conducted by Ian Burk
Johannes Eccard, Maria wallt zum Heiligtum à 5
Antonio Lotti, Crucifixus à 8
Charles Villiers Stanford, The Blue Bird
Thomas Weelkes, All at Once Well Met Fair Ladies à 5
Claudio Monteverdi, Beatus vir qui timet Dominum à 6
Although all of the items on this concert have their merits, I best remember the Monteverdi psalm from this concert, which has an introduction exactly like the well-known soprano madrigal Chiome d’oro, some minor key triple-time music in the middle with groovy tenor ornaments, and a fun, springy, rhythmical Gloria Patri to finish it all off. My good friend Michael came along to the Saturday performance.
25th Birthday Celebrations of the Tasmanian Conservatorium of Music
ABC Odeon Theatre, Saturday 15 September 15 1990
Merlyn Quaife (s), Graeme Wall (t), Lyall Beven (bar), TUMS, Conservatorium Chorale, Peter Exton (vln), Conservatorium Silver Jubilee Orchestra, conducted by Joannes Roose
Richard Strauss, Also sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30
Carl Orff, Carmina Burana
This was a fun concert to prepare, although the direction by Joannes Roose was a bit lacklustre on the night, with none of the tempi ever getting to full speed. I would have loved to hear the Strauss in performance rather than at the dress rehearsal. During the rehearsals it became evident to the Conservatorium’s chorus master, Edward Talbot, that I had memorised the entire tenor part of Carmina, and thus I never needed to take my eyes off the conductor. The PCP for this concert was at Reg Marron’s place in Hampden Road, and a great deal of fun as well – we sang Carmina again to a recording, so I was well prepared.
1990 Subscription Series
ABC Odeon Theatre, Hobart, Saturday 17 November 1990, 8.00 pm
* Albert Hall, Launceston, Sunday 18 November 1990, 3.00 pm
Lisa Gasteen (s), Irene Waugh (mez), Christopher Doig (t), Grant Dickson (b), Conservatorium Chorale, TUMS, Don College Sursum Corda Chorale*, Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Dobbs Franks
Bohuslav Martinů, Symphony Nº 2 (Australian premiére)
Ludwig van Beethoven, Choral Symphony Nº 9 in D minor, Op. 125
This was the concert I joined TUMS to do; I seem to remember the Launceston concert better owing to the more favourable acoustic – it’s fun hearing loud chords bounce off the far wall a third of a second later. This being a work I knew well from recordings and owning a miniature full score, what I remember most of the experience is the particularly bass-heavy acoustical perspective which is characteristic of sitting in the rows of the choir behind the orchestra.
1991 Hobart Subscription Series
ABC Odeon Theatre, Hobart, Wednesday 22 May 1991, 8.00 pm
Angela Hewitt (pf, Mozart), Mark Irwin (t*), TUMS *; Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Dobbs Franks
* Donald Hollier, And musick shall untune the sky (World premiére)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Concerto Nº 19 for piano and orchestra in A, K488
Johannes Brahms, Serenade Nº 1 in D, Op. 11
Masses of Music
Hobart Town Hall, Saturday 27 April 1991, 8.00 pm
Jessica Carrington (s), Joan Wright (a), Brian Yates (t), Jon Waters (b), Christopher Dearnley (org), TUMS, conducted by Ian Burk
William Byrd, Mass for four voices
Franz Schubert, Mass Nº 5 in A flat, D678
The Byrd was sung with a semi-chorus chosen by recommendation, which turned out to be a divisive step for one loud and inaccurate bass who wanted to sing but had to be asked not to. The Byrd went well except for the altos stuffing their opening entry of the Credo. The Schubert was lovely, even if we sang from the botched-up Novello edition. Christopher Dearnley was in Hobart for three months to stand in for Ian Burk at St David’s Cathedral, so in addition he organised a TUMS group to augment the Cathedral Choir for a full performance of Schubert’s smaller G major mass (D167), with string orchestra.
TUMS Mid-Year Concert
Derwent Regional Library, 12 July 1991
Julianne Panckridge (s), Catherine Finney (a), Philip Legge (t), Jon Waters (b), Marion Bisset (pf), TUMS, conducted by Liz Eden
John Farmer, Fair Phyllis
John Bennett, Weep, O mine eyes
Henry VIII, Pastyme with good company
Thomas Ford, Since First I Saw Your Face
Orazio Vecchi, Canzonetta
Colin Brumby, Four Romantic Choruses: If There Were Dreams to Sell
Cole Porter, In the Still of the Night
Cole Porter, I’ve Got You Under My Skin
George Gershwin, Love Walked In
John Masefield, A Wanderer’s Song
Ben Oakland, Java-Jive
Jeff Moss, Rubber Duckie
P.D.Q. Bach, The Seasonings, S.1 1/2 tsp
In the (cough) Bach oratorio I not only made my TUMS solo début singing the role of the Narrator, but also sneezed and played wind breaker and slide whistle to the great amusement of the children in the audience.
A Benjamin Britten Choral Celebration
St David’s Sesquicentenary Arts Festival
St David’s Cathedral, Hobart, Saturday 19 October 1991, 8.00 pm
Christopher Dawes (t), David Harper (treble), Charlotte McKercher (s), Beth Coombe (a), Mark Irwin (t), Jon Waters (b), TUMS, Nico Bester (org), Conservatorium Orchestra, conducted by Ian Burk
Benjamin Britten, Hymn to St Cecilia, Op. 27
Benjamin Britten, St Nicolas
This concert was marred by mistakes of musicianship, which had the effect of getting the conductor rather flustered. At the very start the pianist played the wrong chord (G major instead of E major) to give the notes for the Hymn to St Cecilia; the choir went three bars before collapsing. In St Nicolas the organist came in one entry early for the tenor’s fortissimo “God be glorified!”, completely drowning out the treble. One of the percussionists panicked utterly at playing the cymbals during the tempest section, despite being given each of his nine cues by the conductor. Ian was so annoyed by this he then went onto the following movement beating in 2, when he had rehearsed the orchestra in 4; at this, the student players fell apart, requiring another restart.
Handel Messiah
ABC Odeon Theatre, Hobart, Saturday 14 December 1991, 8.00 pm
* Princess Theatre, Launceston, Monday 16 December 1991, 8.00 pm
Margaret Schindler (s), Andrew Dalton (countertenor), David Hobson (t), David Asten (b), TUMS, Launceston Philharmonic Society*, Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Neil McEwan
George Frideric Handel, Messiah, an Oratorio, HWV 56
I met Neil McEwan when he came down and visited Hobart earlier in 1991, so it was a rewarding experience to do two orchestral concerts with him. The Hobart concert was really quite good. The Launceston concert, on the other hand – now that’s another story. Don’t get me started...
Come, Come ye Sons of Art
St Mary’s Cathedral, Hobart, Saturday 2 May 1992, 8.00 pm
Charlotte McKercher (s), Beth Coombe (s/a), Clifford Plumpton (b), TUMS, Miriam Rainsford (pf), TSO (ensemble), conducted by Mark Irwin
Henry Purcell, Come, ye Sons of Art, birthday ode for Queen Mary, 30 April 1694, Z 323
Ludwig van Beethoven, An die ferne Geliebte
George Frideric Handel, Dixit Dominus, HWV 232
It took me years to get over the experience of managing this concert. IEB, may you rot in hell.
Another Opening, Another Show
American Musicals of the 1920s 1930s 1940s
Hobart Town Hall, Saturday 19 August 1992, 8.00 pm
Charlotte McKercher (s), Beth Coombe (s), Jon Waters (b), Peter Warren (pf), TUMS, conducted by Mark Irwin (tenor)
Cole Porter, Kiss Me, Kate: Another op’nin’, another show, So in love, From this moment on
Cole Porter, Anything Goes: Anything goes, I get a kick out of you, It’s de-lovely
Richard Rodgers, Bewitched
Richard Rodgers, If I loved you
Jerome Kern, All the things you are
Cole Porter, I’ve got you under my skin
George Gershwin, Do-do-do
Hoagy Carmichael, Skylark
Richard Rodgers, It might as well be spring
George Gershwin, Someone to watch over me
Cole Porter, I love Paris
Richard Rodgers, Falling in love with love
Irving Berlin, Puttin’ on the Ritz
Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, South Pacific: Some enchanted evening, There is nothin’ like a dame, Bali Ha’i, I’m gonna wash that man right out-a my hair
Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II, Showboat: Can’t help lovin’ dat man, Make believe, Life on the wicked stage, Finale to Act I
Incorporating singers from Adelaide University Choral Society (AUCS), Australian National University Choral Society (SCUNA), Cantorion, Flinders University Choral Society (FUCS), Macquarie University Singers (MUS), Melbourne University Choral Society (MUCS), Monash University Choral Society (MonUCS), Music Society of the University of Technology, Sydney (MuscUTS), Perth Undergraduate Choral Society (PUCS), Queensland University Musical Soicety (QUMS), RMIT Occasional Choral Society (ROCS), Sydney University Musical Society (SUMS), and Tasmania University Musical Society (TUMS); also occasionally, singers of the Adelaide Graduate Singers, Astra, Collegium Musicum (University of NSW), Deakin University Singers, La Trobe University Singers, Melbourne Chorale, Royal Melbourne Philharmonic Society, and Sydney Philharmonia
Sergei Rachmaninoff, All-night Vigil (Vespers), Op. 37
St Mary Star of the Sea, West Melbourne, Wednesday 30 January 1991, 8.00 pm
Lynette Alcantara (a), Michael Chang (t), 42nd IVCF Choir, conducted by John Grundy
This was an amazing concert, as vindicated by the recording made by 3MBS and broadcast by them several times since. The dynamic range of the choir was extremely large, and featured such vocal improbabilities as the final G major chord of the first number underpinned by a basso profundo’s contra-G (that’s the G below the bass stave).
Mozart 200 Series
Melbourne Concert Hall, Saturday 2 February 1991, 8.00 pm
Gillian Sullivan (s), Irene Waugh (mez), Gregory Tomlinson (t), Geoffrey Chard (b), 42nd IVCF Choir, conducted by Pinchas Zukerman
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Symphony Nº 40 in G minor, K550
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Requiem in D minor, K626
The Mozart went very well, Zukerman having had the formidable duo of John Grundy and Ben Macpherson to prepare the chorus. I had a great time at the PCP too, indeed getting an introduction to then-Senator Michael Tate no less.
What the critics said:
The concert, and the series, ended with a performance of the 'Requiem', splendidly sung by the choir of the 42nd Intervarsity Choral Festival. The solo singers made a formidable quartet, although there were a few points missed – neither the soprano nor the tenor caught the inflected pathos of the reference to Mary and the good thief in the Recordare, and the tenor turned his Latin accusative into an ablative at the same moment.
Although the orchestral ensemble was satisfactory, my own impression was that both the orchestra and the conductor were riding on the back of the well-prepared choir. Outside their singing, there was not a great deal of subtlety or finish to the performance. (Kenneth Hince, The Age)
Where's my sandwich? (Pinchas Zukerman)
Baroque Musical Banquet
St John’s Church, Launceston, Thursday 23 January 1992, 8.00 pm
43rd IVCF Choir, Universiy Brass Ensemble, Robert Smith (org), conducted by John O’Donnell
Giovanni Gabrieli, Nunc dimittis à 14
Giovanni Gabrieli, Plaudite, psallite, jubilate Deo omnis terra à 12
Giovanni Gabrieli, Buccinate in neomenia tuba à 19
Giovanni Gabrieli, Canzon per sonar in echo duodecimi toni decem vocum
Claudio Monteverdi, Nisi Dominus à 10 from the Vespers of 1610
Claudio Monteverdi, Lauda Jerusalem Dominum à 7 from the Vespers of 1610
Claudio Monteverdi, Ave maris stella à 8 from the Vespers of 1610
Michael Praetorius, Resonet in laudibus à 7
Michael Praetorius, Hosianna in der Hohe à 8
Michael Praetorius, Christus der uns selig macht à 8
Michael Praetorius, Gott der Vater wohn uns bei à 8
Giovanni Gabrieli, Canzon per sonar septimi toni octo vocum
Heinrich Schütz, Alleluja. Lobet den Herrn à 16 (Psalm 150)
The scale of this music was too large for the over-resonant acoustic of St John’s Church, so instead of the wall of sound it was more like a steamroller. As is his wont John O’Donnell had the Lauda Jerusalem transposed down a fourth, which caused a kerfuffle when we realised we didn’t have an organ part in transposition. In the long ancient days before musical desktop publishing had arrived, many hands including my own were employed to transcribe and transpose a part for the organist, which was cobbled together out of the many handwritten pages.
Monteverdi Vespers of 1610
City Hall, Hobart, Friday 31 January 1992, 8.00 pm
Jane Edwards, Penelope Sharpe (sopranos), Lynette Richardson (a), Gerald English, Simon Biazeck (tenors), Andrew Fysh, Craig Miller (basses), 43rd IVCF Choir, Roger Glanville-Hicks (theorbo), Geoffrey Lancaster (hpschd), TSO chamber ensemble, conducted by John O’Donnell
Claudio Monteverdi, Vespro della beata vergine (1610)
Again it was noticed that I had memorised the Vespers (big deal, the Monteverdi Choir probably do it blindfold). This concert was marred by the fact that I had caught the IV Lurgi (Ee-yakaboo!) and thus I was only able to sing the first half of the concert before my voice gave out entirely. The PCP at Adam Marshall’s place hasn’t entered into legend like the one after the Launceston concert, but it was still very good...
Borodin Polovtsian Dances
Centennial Hall, Sydney Town Hall, Saturday 11 July 1992, 2.30 pm
Sydney Choral Festival Choir, Liwei Qin (vc), Australian Youth Orchestra, conducted by John Hopkins
Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky, Symphony Nº 6 in B minor, Op. 74 “Pathetique”
Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky, Variations on a Rococo Theme, Op. 33
Alexander Borodin, Polovtsian Dances from Prince Igor
This was a mixed concert. In the Symphony, Hopkins fluffed the start of the Allegro molto vivace by completely failing to give the players any time (i.e., an upbeat) to subdivide the first downbeat into triplets, and apart from this technical mistake the rest of the Symphony was well-played. The Variations were rather uninspired and the young cellist didn’t embellish. Under these circumstances, the Borodin easily came off as best.
Brahms, A German Requiem
Concert Hall, Sydney Opera House, Sunday 12 July 1992, 7.30 pm
Nicola Ferner-Waite (s), Michael Lewis (bar), Sydney Choral Festival Choir, Australian Youth Orchestra, conducted by Rodney Eichenberger
Johannes Brahms, Ein deutsches Requiem, Op. 45
Perth International Arts Festival 2003: Australia Day Concert
Perth Concert Hall, Sunday 26 January 2003, 5.30 pm
Waldemar: Horst Hoffman (tenor)
Tove: Nicole Youl (soprano)
Waldtaube: Bernadette Cullen (soprano)
Bauer: Gary Rowley (bass)
Klaus-Narr: Barry Ryan (tenor)
Sprecher: Gerald English
Perth Undergratuate Choral Society, members of the University of Western Australia Choral Society, Australian Intervarsity Choral Society Association Festival Choir, Royal Melbourne Philharmonic Choir, Australian Youth Orchestra with members of the Western Australia Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Diego Masson
Arnold Schönberg, Gurre-lieder
This concert drew on choristers from every state of Australia, and in anticipation of the difficulties ensuring uniform preparation of the work, I was commissioned by Andrew Wailes to prepare MIDI files for the chorus to familiarise themselves with before rehearsals began in earnest in Perth. I therefore ended up creating a full choral score, which is a substantial improvement on the Universal Edition choral part books, and corrects numerous errors in the full score, and the vocal score prepared by Alban Berg and Anton von Webern. As there is as yet no critical edition of Gurre-lieder, I invite Schönberg’s publishers to adopt this edition, which is currently available only from me.
Monteverdi Vespers of 1610
St Christopher’s Cathedral, Canberra, Saturday 17 July 2003, 8.00 pm
Helen Thompson, Jenny Sawer (sopranos), Luke Murtagh (a), George Liakatos, Andrew Wailes (tenors), Andrew Fysh, Rodney Reynolds (basses), 54th IVCF Choir, players from the Canberra School of Music, conducted by Tom Burge
Claudio Monteverdi, Vespro della beata vergine (1610)
Again an IV where I lost my voice: I missed the first concert entirely with a lurgi, and as I could not sing a note above middle C for most of the next month, for the first time in a concert, I sang 2nd Bass.
Once again we were using the horrid edition by Denis Stevens. Five days before the concert – and two days before the first orchestral rehearsal – it was discovered we had the wrong orchestral parts for the Vespers: the publishers had sent Stevens’ first edition, and thus we had parts for only Domine ad adiuvandum, Dixit Dominus, Ave maris stella, and the Magnificat à 7: there were no other materials for the remaining 9 movements.
I ended up being instrumental in the rescue mission by quickly arranging orchestral parts for all four remaining psalms (bar Dixit Dominus of course) and the motet Audi cœlum, while the convenor typeset the continuo parts for Nigra sum, Pulchra es, and Duo Seraphim – probably generating over 150 pages of score between the two of us in two days.
We had to use a different method to tackle the Sonata sopra Sancta Maria, for which we had no resources other than the published full score: this we photocopied several times, and I had a team of sub-editors cutting and glueing the pieces together for the players, who otherwise – thanks to the publishers not stocking the correct parts – would have had no music to play for what is a fully instrumental canzona, with a soprano descant on top.
By the time we got to the concert (after spending two full nights using the convenor’s laptop to write the parts, and one and a half full days of cutting and glueing) I was in a rather Bolshevik mood, and was militantly lobbying the festival Librarian to have the incorrect parts rounded up, placed in a wooden bonfire, ceremonially set ablaze á la Edward Woodward in The Wicker Man, and the ashes to be returned to the publishers in a small box.
Consequently I am offering to produce a completely new edition, full score, vocal score, and any combination of parts, for the Mass and Vespers of 1610 for any Australian choir that is prepared to pay me to do it.
O Fortuna
Mandurah Performing Arts Centre, Saturday 14 February 2004, 6.30 pm
55th IVCF Choir, Midland Brick Brass, conducted by Andrew Wailes and *Bill McAllister
Carl Orff, O fortuna (from Carmina Burana)
Georg Frideric Handel arr. R Newsome, Zadok the Priest
*Jan Sibelius, Finlandia, Op. 26
Franz Biebl, Ave Maria
Morten Lauridsen, O magnum mysterium
*Percy Grainger arr. Alan Lourens, Irish Tune from County Derry
Sergei Rachmaninov, Bogorodyitse Dyevo, raduisa (from Vespers, Op. 37)
*Bill McAllister, Rockingham
Hubert Parry, Jerusalem
*Aaron Copland arr. Howard Snell, Fanfare for the Common Man
Sarah Hopkins, Past Life Melodies
*Giuseppe Verdi arr. Frank Wright, Overture to The Force of Destiny
Iain Grandage, Three Australian Bush Songs: Dawn; Birds; Sunset
Giuseppe Verdi, Anvil Chorus from Il trovatore
*Antonín Dvořák arr. Dennis Wright, Slavonic Dance No 8
Alexandre Pascanu, Chindia (Old Romanian Dance)
Carl Orff, O fortuna (from Carmina Burana)
The reprise of O fortuna went quite mad, so that the choir, brass, and especially the percussion made the loudest acoustic noise recorded in the Mandurah theatre, going somewhere off the scale over 105 dB...
Perth International Arts Festival 2004
Perth Concert Hall, Saturday 21 February 2004, 8.00 pm
Lisa Harper-Brown (s), Fiona Campbell (a), Aldo di Toro (t), Harry Peeters (b), 55th IVCF Choir, Prague Chamber Orchestra with members of the Western Australia Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Graham Abbott
Antonín Dvořák, Stabat mater, Op. 58
Another great concert in Perth; the choir prepared for everything, the Czech orchestra, soloists and conductor in top form.
Howells Requiem
BMW Edge, Federation Square, Saturday 29 January 2005, 8.00 pm
56th IVCF Choir, conducted by Dr Richard Swann
György Orbán, Dæmon irrepit callidus
Arvo Pärt, Magnificat (1989)
Johann Hermann Schein, Lobet den Herrn in seinem Heiligtum à 6
Heinrich Schütz, Das ist je gewißlich wahr à 6 (on the death of J.H. Schein)
David Cassat, Flesh to Stone (2004, World premiére)
Charles Villiers Stanford, Magnificat in B flat for double choir, Op. 164 (1919)
Herbert Howells, Requiem (1932)
Trad. Luo (Kenyan) spiritual, arr. S.A. Otieno: Sigalagala
An excellent sell-out concert in a stunning venue, for which I edited extra copies of the Stanford.
250 Singers, One Voice
Melbourne Town Hall, Saturday 5 February 2004, 8.00 pm
Kodály: Kylie Pointer, Lauren Oldham (sopranos), Kerrie Bolton (mez), Mark Fowler (t), Derek Welton (b), Jonathan Bradley (org); Bruckner: wind and brass players of Orchestra Victoria; 56th IVCF Choir, conducted by Jonathan Grieves-Smith
Anton Bruckner, Mass in E minor (1882 version)
Zoltán Kodály, Missa brevis (1942–44)
This concert was well-attended despite the MSO programming a free concert on the same night, and although most things boded well beforehand the performance did not ascend to the heights of the Perth concert a year previously. Again I edited extra copies of the Bruckner.
African Sanctus
Grainger Studio, Hindley Street, Adelaide, Saturday 28 January 2005, 8.00 pm
Ayla Erken, Petra Lindsay, Kim Asher (s), 57th IVCF Choir, conducted by Timothy Sexton
Ariel Ramírez, Missa Criolla
arr. Haazen, Missa Luba
David Fanshawe, African Sanctus
Israel in Egypt
Adelaide Festival Theatre, Friday 3 February 2004, 8.00 pm
Sally-Anne Russell (contralto), Peter Kelsall (org), Adelaide Art Orchestra, 57th IVCF Choir, conducted by Graham Abbott
George Frideric Handel, Israel in Egypt, HWV 54
The next IVCFs are to be held in Brisbane in 2007 and Sydney in 2008.
Chorus master: Paul Oxley
Giuseppe Verdi, La traviata (in concert)
ABC Odeon Theatre, Hobart, Thursday 27, Saturday 29 February 1992, 7.30 pm
Olga Savina (Violetta, s), Anson Austin (Alfredo, t), Lyall Beven (Germont, bar), Marilyn Smith (Flora, a), Valerie Pennefather (Annina, s), Alan Cato (Barone, bar), Mark Irwin (Gastone, t), Clifford Plumpton (Dottore, bar), Brian Sykes (Marchese, b) TSO Chorus, Tasmania Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Vladimir Kamirsky
Giacomo Puccini, La Bohème (in concert)
ABC Odeon Theatre, Hobart, Thursday 22, Saturday 24 July 1993, 7.30 pm
Rosamund Illing (Mimì, s), Kenneth Collins (Rodolfo, t), Christine Douglas (Musetta, s), Lyall Beven (Marcello, bar), Ian Cousins (Schaunard, bar), Russell Smith (Colline, b), Douglas McNicol (Benoit, t), Mark Irwin (Parpignol, t), TSO Chorus, Tasmania Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Vladimir Kamirsky
Meet the Classics: Mozart
ABC Odeon Theatre, Hobart, Thursday 23 September 1993, 6.30 pm
TSO Chorus, Tasmania Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Antony Walker
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Kyrie in D minor, K341 (368a)
Serenade Nº 6 in D major, Serenata notturna, K239
Choruses from Idomeneo, ré di Creta, K366
Act 3, “O voto tremendo”
Act 2, “Corriamo, fuggiamo”
Act 1, March, “Nettuno s’onori”
Symphony Nº 35 in D major, “Haffner”, K385
Motet, Ave verum corpus, K618
Musical Director: Ian Burk
A concert of Cathedral Christmas Music
Hobart Town Hall, Monday 21 December 1992, 7.30 pm
Robert Evans (bar), St David’s Lay Clerks and Choristers, conducted by Ian Burk (organ)
Francis Jackson, I saw Three Ships
John Joubert, There is no Rose
O Come, all ye Faithful
David Willcocks, Sussex Carol
Herbert Howells, A Spotless Rose
God Rest ye Merry Gentlemen
Boris Ord, Adam lay y bounden
Hans Leo Hassler, Dixit Maria à 4
O Little Town of Bethlehem
Tomàs Luis da Victoria, O magnum mysterium à 4
The First Nowell
William Mathias, Wassail
William Byrd, Mass for three voices
Once in Royal David’s City
William Mathias, A Babe is Born
While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks
Imogen Holst, That Lord that Lay in Asse. Stall
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
Andrew Carter, Angelus ad virginem
Renaissance Cathedral Music in Concert
St Mary’s Cathedral, Hobart, Saturday 9 July 1994, 8.00 pm
St David’s Lay Clerks and Choristers, conducted by Ian Burk
Hymn, Æterna Christi munera
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Missa Æterna Christi munera à 4
William Byrd, O sacrum convivium
William Byrd, Sacerdotes Domini
William Byrd, O quam suavis est
Anonymous, Rejoice in the Lord alway
Luca Marenzio, O rex gloriæ
Thomas Weelkes, Alleluia
Jacob Handl, Ascendit Deus
Sacred Music of the Renaissance
St Mary’s Cathedral, Hobart, Sunday 11 December 1994
St David’s Lay Clerks and Choristers, conducted by Ian Burk
Plainsong, Asperges
William Byrd, Cibavit eos
William Byrd, Mass for 3 voices
William Byrd, Oculi omnium
Giovanni Ottavio Pitoni, Laudate Dominum in sanctis eius
William Byrd, Ave verum corpus
Jacob Handl, Resonet in laudibus
Michael Praetorius, Puer natus in Bethlehem
Tomàs Luis da Victoria, Gaudent in cœlis
Ludovico da Viadana, Exultate justi in Domino
Directed by John O’Donnell
Hommage à Gombert
Xavier College Chapel, Kew, Tuesday 21 May 1996, 8 pm
Nicolas Gombert, Regina cœli lætare à 12 – Secunda pars: Resurrexit, sicut dixit
Nicolas Gombert, O beata Maria à 5 – Secunda pars: Assiste parata votis poscentium
Nicolas Gombert, Magnificat octavi toni à 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Nicolas Gombert, Credo à 8
Nicolas Gombert, Mort et fortune à 4
Orlande de Lassus, Magnificat tertii toni à 5 super “Mort et fortune”
Nicolas Gombert, In illo tempore à 6
Claudio Monteverdi, Missa da Capella a sei voci, fatta sopra il motteto “In illo tempore” del Gomberti le fughe del quale sono queste
Josquin and friends
St James’ Church, East St Kilda, Sunday 18 August 1996, 3.10 pm
Josquin Desprez, Memor esto verbo tuo à 4 – Secunda pars
Josquin Desprez, Planxit autem David à 4 – Secunda pars – Tertia pars: Sagitta Jonathæ – Quarta pars: Doleo
Josquin Desprez, Huc me sydero descendere aussit Olympo à 5 – Secunda pars
Thomas Tallis, Incipit lamentatione Ieremiæ prophetæ à 5; De lamentatione Ieremiæ prophetæ à 5
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Sicut cervus desiderat ad fontes à 4 – Secunda pars: Sitivit anima mea
Media vita
Xavier College Chapel, Kew, Tuesday 27 August 1996, 8 pm
Plainchant, Media vita
Nicolas Gombert, Media vita à 6
Orlande de Lassus, Media vita à 6
John Sheppard, Media vita à 6 – Ne projicias nos in tempore à 3 – Noli claudere aures tuas ad preces nostras à 3 – Qui cognoscis occulta cordis à 5
Nicolas Gombert, Missa Media vita à 5
Venice Revered
Sacred Heart, St Kilda, Sunday 22 September 1996, 8 pm
Ensemble Gombert, Fonte Musicale (Director: Nigel Paul)
Cornetti: Nigel Paul, Danny Lucin
Sackbutts: Robert Collins (and percussion), Denis Freeman, Ben Marks, Glenn Bardwell
Organ continuo: Jacqueline Ogeil
Giovanni Gabrieli, Nunc dimittis à 14
Giovanni Gabrieli, O Domine Jesu Christe à 8
Pietro Lappi, La Diamante à 6
Giovanni Gabrieli, Canzon terza à 4
Amante Franzoni, Sancta Maria
Giovanni Gabrieli, Hodie completi sunt à 8
Giovanni Gabrieli, Buccinate in neomenia tuba à 19
Michael Praetorius, Resonet in laudibus à 7
Michael Praetorius, Christus der uns selig macht à 8
Hans Leo Haßler, Intrada à 6
Michael Praetorius, Suite à 6 (Bransle Double – Courante – Bransle Gay – Passameze – Galliarde)
Michael Praetorius, Gott der Vater wohn uns bei à 8
Michael Praetorius, Dum surgit tumulo patris à 12
Motets of Johann Sebastian Bach
Xavier College Chapel, Kew, Tuesday 22 October 1996, 8 pm
Johann Sebastian Bach, Motets:
BWV 230 Komm, Jesu, komm à 8
BWV 227 Der Geist hilft unser Schwachheit auf à 8
BWV 228 Jesu, meine Freude à 5
BWV 231 Lobet den Herrn, alle Heiden à 4
BWV 229 Fürchte dich nicht, ich bin bei dir à 8
BWV Anh. 11 Ich lasse dich nicht, du segnest mich denn à 8
BWV 226 Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied à 8 – Zweite teil, Choral mit Aria: Wie sich ein Vater erbarmet – Dritte teil: Lobet den Herrn in seinen Taten
Castlemaine Festival
St Mary’s, Castlemaine, Saturday 9 November 1996, 12 pm
Orlande de Lassus, Magnificat tertii toni à 5 super “Mort et fortune”
Josquin Desprez, Præter rerum seriem à 6 – Secunda pars: Virtus sancti Spiritus
Carlo Gesualdo, Principe di Venosa, Responsoria à 6 (1611), Sabbato Sancto in ij noct.
IV. Recessit pastor noster – Destruxit quidem claustra
V. O vos omnes – Attendite, universi populi
VI. Ecce quomodo moritur iustus – Tamquam agnus
Nicolas Gombert, Lugebat David Absalon à 8 – Secunda pars: Porro rex operuit caput suum
Philippe de Monte, Super flumina Babylonis à 8
William Byrd, Quomodo cantabimus canticum Domini in terra aliena? à 8 – Secunda pars: Si non proposuero Ierusalem
Orlando Gibbons, O clap your hands together all ye people à 8 – Second part: God is gone up with a merry noise
Johann Sebastian Bach, BWV 226 Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied à 8 – Zweite teil, Choral mit Aria: Wie sich ein Vater erbarmet – Dritte teil: Lobet den Herrn in seinen Taten
Wedding of Katherine Wells
St Michael’s Uniting Church, Collins Street, Melbourne, Saturday 16 November 1996, 6.30 pm
Orlando Gibbons, O clap your hands together all ye people à 8 – Second part: God is gone up with a merry noise
Giovanni Gabrieli, Jubilate Deo à 8
Johann Sebastian Bach, BWV 226 Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied à 8 – Zweite teil, Choral mit Aria: Wie sich ein Vater erbarmet – Dritte teil: Lobet den Herrn in seinen Taten
Christmas to Candlemas
Xavier College Chapel, Kew, Tuesday 17 December 1996, 8 pm
Nicolas Gombert, Hodie nobis cælorum Rex à 5 – Secunda pars: Hodie nobis de cælo
Clemens non Papa, O magnum mysterium à 6 – Secunda pars: Dominus audivi auditum tuum
Heinrich Isaac, Puer natus est nobis à 6 – Secunda pars: Cantate Domino canticum novum
Josquin Desprez, O admirabile comertium creator generis humani à 4 – Secunda pars: Quando natus est ineffabiliter de uirgine – Tertia pars: Rubum quem uiderat moyses – Quarta pars: Germinauit radix iesse – Quinta pars: Ecce maria genuit nobis saluatorem
Jacob Handl, Mirabile mysterium à 5
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Hodie Christus natus est à 8
Orlande de Lassus, Reges omnes terræ à 8
Tomàs Luis de Victoria, Senex puerum portabat à 4
Thomas Tallis, Missa Puer natus est nobis à 7
Jean de Okeghem: a quingentennial tribute
Xavier College Chapel, Kew, Tuesday 11 March 1997, 8 pm
Jean de Okeghem, Missa My My à 4
Antoine Busnois, In hydraulis à 4 – Secunda pars: Haec Ockeghen
Loyset Compére, Omnium bonorum plena à 4 – Secunda pars: Omnium bonorum plena
Antoine Brumel, Lamentations à 4 – Prima pars: Heth. Cogitavit Dominus – Secunda pars: Caph. Defecerunt
Pierre de la Rue, Missa pro defunctis à 4
Josquin Desprez, Nymphes des bois à 5
Melbourne International Festival of Organ and Harpsichord
St Mary Star of the Sea, West Melbourne, Monday 31 March 1997, 8.15 pm
Jean de Okeghem, Alma Redemptoris mater à 4 – Secunda pars: Virgo prius ac posterius
Jean de Okeghem, Salve regina à 4 – Secunda pars: Eia ergo, advocata nostra – Tertia pars: O clemens, o pia, o dulcis, virgo semper Maria
Jean de Okeghem, Intemerata Dei mater à 5 – Secunda pars: Nec sine te manet ulla quies – Tertia pars: Aspiciat facito miseros pietatis ocello
Jean de Okeghem, Missa pro defunctis à 3
Johannes Brahms, Es ist das Heil uns kommen her, Op. 29, Nº 1
Johannes Brahms, Aus dem 51. Psalm – Schaffe in mir, Gott, Op. 29, Nº 2
Johannes Brahms, Warum ist das Licht gegeben dem Mühseligen?, Op. 74, Nº 1
Johannes Brahms, O Heiland, reiß die Himmel auf à 4, Op. 74, Nº 2
Johannes Brahms, Ich aber bin elend à 8, Op. 110, Nº 1
Johannes Brahms, Ach, arme Welt à 4, Op. 110, Nº 2
Johannes Brahms, Wenn wir in höchsten Nöten sein à 8, Op. 110, Nº 3
Victimæ Paschali
Xavier College Chapel, Kew, Tuesday 29 April 1997, 8 pm
Heinrich Isaac, Resurrexi et adhuc tecum sum à 6 – Secunda pars: Domine probasti me, et cognovisti me
Nicolas Gombert, Ego sum qui sum à 6 – Secunda pars: Tulerunt Dominum meum
Nicolas Gombert, Expurgate vetus fermentum à 5 – Secunda pars: Mortuus est enim
Nicolas Gombert, Haec dies à 5 – Secunda pars: Confitemini Domino quoniam bonus
Adrian Willaert, Victimæ paschali laudes à 6 – Secunda pars: Dic nobis Maria, quid vidistis in via
Nicolas Gombert, Missa Tempore Paschali à 6
Nicolas Gombert, Regina cæli lætare à 12
Choral music of San Marco
National Gallery of Victoria, European Galleries, Saturday 10 May 1997, 2 pm
Baldassare Donati, Hei mihi Domine à 5
Claudio Merulo, Adoramus te à 6
Andrea Gabrieli, Maria stabat à 6
Giovanni Bassano, Dic nobis Maria à 6
Giovanni Gabrieli, Jubilate Deo à 8
Marriage of John David O’Donnell and Jacqueline Esther Ogeil
Trinity College Chapel, Parkville, Saturday 10 May 1997, 4.30 pm
Roger Glanville-Hicks, Baroque guitar; Elizabeth-Anne Farmer, organ; Samantha Cohen, theorbo; Ensemble Gombert (Guest director: Carol Veldhoven), Fonte Musicale (Director: Nigel Paul)
Claudio Monteverdi, Deus in adiutorium meum intende
Giovanni Gabrieli, Jubilate Deo à 8
Melchior Franck, Du bist aller Dinge schön à 5
Hans Leo Haßler, Nona intrada
Josquin to Bach
St John’s, Camberwell, [meeting of Camberwell Music Society], Saturday 17 May 1997, 8 pm
Josquin Desprez, Præter rerum seriem à 6 – Secunda pars: Virtus sancti Spiritus
Nicolas Gombert, Ego sum qui sum à 6 – Secunda pars: Tulerunt Dominum meum
Orlande de Lassus, Magnificat tertii toni à 5 super “Mort et fortune”
Philippe de Monte, Super flumina Babylonis à 8
William Byrd, Quomodo cantabimus canticum Domini in terra aliena? à 8 – Secunda pars: Si non proposuero Ierusalem
Orlando Gibbons, O clap your hands together all ye people à 8 – Second part: God is gone up with a merry noise
Carlo Gesualdo, Principe di Venosa, Responsoria à 6 (1611), Sabbato Sancto in ij noct.
IV. Recessit pastor noster – Destruxit quidem claustra
V. O vos omnes – Attendite, universi populi
VI. Ecce quomodo moritur iustus – Tamquam agnus
Johann Sebastian Bach, BWV 226 Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied à 8 – Zweite teil, Choral mit Aria: Wie sich ein Vater erbarmet – Dritte teil: Lobet den Herrn in seinen Taten
Tallis to Britten
Xavier College Chapel, Kew, Tuesday 27 May 1997, 8 pm
Thomas Tallis, Incipit lamentatione Ieremiæ prophetæ à 5
Robert Parsons, Ave Maria à 5
William Byrd, Quomodo cantabimus canticum Domini in terra aliena? à 8 – Secunda pars: Si non proposuero Ierusalem
Thomas Morley, De profundis clamavi à 6
Thomas Weelkes, Gloria in excelsis Deo. Sing, my soul à 6
Thomas Tomkins, O God, the proud are risen against me à 8
Orlando Gibbons, O clap your hands together all ye people à 8 – Second part: God is gone up with a merry noise
Henry Purcell, Thou knowest, Lord, the secrets of our hearts à 4
Samuel Wesley, In exitu Israel à 8
Charles Villiers Stanford, Magnificat à 8, Op. 164
Ralph Vaughan Williams, Three Shakespeare Songs – 1. Full fathom five (Andante misterioso); 2. The cloud-capp’d towers (Lento); 3. Over hill, over dale (Allegro vivace)
Benjamin Britten, Hymn to Saint Cecilia, Op. 27
Academy of Melbourne
Hawthorn Town Hall, September 21 1997, 2 pm
Ensemble Gombert, Academy of Melbourne, conducted by Brett Kelly
Franz Schubert, Mass Nº 2 in G, D167
Christopher Willcock, Night thoughts
Franz Schubert, Symphony Nº 9 in C, D944
Gaudeamus: music for All Saints
Xavier College Chapel, Kew, Tuesday 11 November 1997, 8 pm
Heinrich Isaac, Gaudeamus omnes
Josquin Desprez, Missa Gaudeamus
John Taverner, Audivi vocem de cælo
John Sheppard, Audivi vocem de cælo
Thomas Tallis, Audivi vocem de cælo
William Byrd, Gradualia, In festo omnium sanctorum: Gaudeamus omnes, Timete Dominum, Iustorum animæ, Beati mundo corde
Christmas to Candlemas
Xavier College Chapel, Kew, Tuesday 16 and Wednesday 17 December 1997, 8 pm
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, O magnum mysterium à 5
Tomàs Luis de Victoria, Quem vidistis, pastores? à 6
Orlande de Lassus, Videntes stellam à 5
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Hodie Christus natus est à 5
Francis Poulenc, Quatre motets pour le temps de Noel
Josquin Desprez, Præter rerum seriem à 6 – Secunda pars: Virtus sancti Spiritus
Cipriano de Rore, Missa Præter rerum seriem à 7
Music of the Sistine Chapel
Atrium of 101 Collins Street, Melbourne, Sunday 29 March 1998, 7.15 pm
Josquin Desprez, Ave Maria à 4
Josquin Desprez, Inviolata, integra, et casta es Maria à 4
Josquin Desprez, Benedicta es, cælorum Regina à 6?
Costanzo Festa, Magnificat septimi toni à 4
Cristóbal de Morales, O sacrum convivium à 5
Cristóbal de Morales, Tu es Petrus à 5
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Missa Papæ Marcelli à 6
Gesualdo: Responsoria
Xavier College Chapel, Kew, Tuesday 31 March 1998, 8 pm
Carlo Gesualdo, Principe di Venosa, Responsoria à 6 (1611)
Feria Quinta
1. In monte Oliveti – Vigilate et orate
2. Tristis est anima mea – Ecce appropinquat hora
3. Ecce vidimus eum – Vere languores nostros
4. Amicus meus osculi me – Bonum erat ei
5. Iudas mercator pessimus – Melius illi erat
6. Unus ex discipulus meis – Qui intingit mecum
7. Eram quasi agnus innocens – Omnes inimici mei
8. Una hora non potuistis – Quid dormitis?
9. Seniores populi – Collegerunt pontifices
Feria Sexta
10. Omnes amici mei – Inter iniquos
11. Velum templi scissum est – Petræ scissæ sunt
12. Vinea mea electa – Sepivi te
13. Tamquam ad latronem – Cumque iniecissent
14. Tenebræ factæ sunt – Exclamans Iesus
15. Animam meam dilectam – Insurrexerunt in me
16. Tradiderunt me – Alieni insurrexerunt
17. Iesum tratidit impius – Adduxerunt autem
18. Caligaverunt oculi mei – O vos omnes
Sabbato Sancto
19. Sicut ovis ad occisionem – Tradidit in mortem
20. Ierusalem, surge – Deduc quasi torrentem
21. Plange quasi virgo – Accingite vos
22. Recessit pastor noster – Destruxit quidem claustra
23. O vos omnes – Attendite, universi populi
24. Ecce quomodo moritur iustus – Tamquam agnus
25. Astiterunt reges terræ – Quare fremuerunt gentes
26. Æstimatus sum cum descendentibus – Posuerunt me
27. Sepulto Dominum – Accedentes principes
Festival of the Four Winds, Bermagui
Bermagui, Saturday 11 April 1998
Johann Sebastian Bach, Der Geist hilft unser Schwachheit auf à 8, BWV 227
Johann Sebastian Bach, Komm, Jesu, komm à 8, BWV 230
Johann Sebastian Bach, BWV 226 Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied à 8 – Zweite teil, Choral mit Aria: Wie sich ein Vater erbarmet – Dritte teil: Lobet den Herrn in seinen Taten
A Venetian Coronation
Bermagui, Sunday 12 April 1998
Ensemble Gombert, Fonte Musicale, directed by John O’Donnell
Giovanni Gabrieli, Canzon septimi toni à 8
Introitus: Benedicta sit sancta Trinitas
Andrea Gabrieli, Kyrie à 5 – Christe à 8 – Kyrie à 12
Andrea Gabrieli, Gloria à 16
Giovanni Gabrieli, Canzon septimi toni à 8
Giovanni Gabrieli, Deus, qui beatam Marcum à 10
Andrea Gabrieli, Sanctus & Benedictus à 12
Giovanni Gabrieli, Canzon duodecimi toni à 10
Claudio Merulo, Toccata del sesto tono
Andrea Gabrieli, O sacrum convivium à 5
Giovanni Gabrieli, Omnes gentes plaudite manibus à 16
Music at the Court of Ercole I of Ferrara
Tuesday 12 May 1998, Xavier College Chapel, Kew, 8 pm
Jacob Obrecht, Mille quingentis – Secunda pars: Cecilie ad festum
Johannes Martini, Salve regina
Josquin Desprez, Virgo salutiferi – Secunda pars: Tu potis es primæ – Tertia pars: Nunc, cæli regina
Josquin Desprez, Missa Hercules Dux Ferrariæ
Josquin Desprez, Huc me sydero descendere aussit Olympo à 5
Jacob Obrecht, Quis numerare queat – Secunda pars: Audit ipse tamen – Tertia pars: Funde preces Galle
Josquin Desprez, Miserere mei, Deus – Secunda pars: Auditui meo dabis – Tertia pars: Domine labia mea aperies
Florentia/Firenze: Home of the Medici
Xavier College Chapel, Kew, Tuesday 9 June 1998, 8 pm
Guillaume Dufay, Nuper rosarum flores
Guillaume Dufay, Mirandas parit hæc urbs florentina
Guillaume Dufay, Salve flos Tuscæ gentis Florentia
Heinrich Isaac, Quis dabit capito meo aquam?
Heinrich Isaac, Missa Salva nos
Philippe Verdelot, Lætamini in Domino
Philippe Verdelot, Congregati sunt – Secunda pars: Disperge illos
Philippe Verdelot, Recordare, Domine – Secunda pars: Adiuva nos, Deus
Philippe Verdelot, In te, Domine, speravi – Secunda pars: Educes me de laqueo
Alessandro Striggio Sr., Ecce beatam lucem à 40
Johann Sebastian Bach, Passio secundum Johannem, BWV 249
St Patrick’s Cathedral, Melbourne, Tuesday 15 September 1998, 8 pm
Ensemble Gombert, Concentus Australis, directed by John O’Donnell
La serenissima: Music for the Coronation of a Doge
Xavier College Chapel, Kew, Tuesday 10 November 1998, 8 pm
Ensemble Gombert, Fonte Musicale, directed by John O’Donnell
Intonazione
Giovanni Gabrieli, Canzon septimi e octavi toni à 12
Introitus: Benedicta sit sancta Trinitas
Intonazione
Andrea Gabrieli, Kyrie à 5 – Christe à 8 – Kyrie à 12
Andrea Gabrieli, Gloria à 16
Oratio – Intonazione – Epistulum
Giovanni Gabrieli, Canzon septimi toni à 8
Evangelium
Intonazione
Giovanni Gabrieli, Deus, qui beatam Marcum à 10
Præfatio
Andrea Gabrieli, Sanctus & Benedictus à 12
Giovanni Gabrieli, Sonata pian’e forte à 8
Claudio Merulo, Toccata del sesto tono
Pater noster – Pax Domini
Giovanni Gabrieli, Canzon duodecimi toni à 10
Intonazione
Andrea Gabrieli, O sacrum convivium à 5
Postcommunio – Intonazione
Giovanni Gabrieli, Omnes gentes plaudite manibus à 16
Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Messe de Minuit pour Noël
Sacred Heart Church, St Kilda, Saturday 5 December 1998, 8 pm
Ensemble Gombert, Concentus Australis, directed by John O’Donnell
Christmas to Candlemas
Xavier College Chapel, Kew, Tuesday 15 and Wednesday 16, December 1998, 8 pm
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina:
Dies sanctificatus à 4
Lapidabant Stephanum à 4
Hic est discipulus ille à 5
Innocentes pro Christe à 4
O admirabile commercium à 5
Reges Tharsis à 5
Senex puerum portabat à 5 – Secunda pars: Hodie beata virgo
Nunc dimittis à 12
Hodie Christus natus est à 8
Missa Hodie Christus natus est à 8
Directed by Andrew Raiskums
Before I began singing with Gloriana, Andrew Raiskums was gracious to include at very short notice my completion of the Agnus Dei of Brumel’s Missa Et ecce terrae motus, which Gloriana performed in its entirety on Sunday, 23 June 2003, the only such complete Melbourne performance to date.
Brilliant Baroque
St Mark’s Anglican Church, 250 George Street, Fitzroy, Friday 10 September 2004, 8.00 pm, and Sunday 12 September 2004, 2.30pm
Claudio Monteverdi, Domine, ne in furore tuo à 4
Claudio Monteverdi, Missa in illo tempore
Johann Sebastian Bach, Fürchte dich nicht à 8, BWV 229
George Frideric Handel, Dixit Dominus, HWV 232
Ceremony of Carols
St Mark’s Anglican Church, Fitzroy, Sunday 5 December 2004, 2.30 pm
Guillaume Dufay, Ave maris stella
Orlande de Lassus, Salve Regina, Alma Redemptoris mater, Omnes de Saba à 8
Robert Parsons, Ave Maria
Arvo Pärt, Magnificat
William Byrd, O magnum misterium
Tomàs Luis de Victoria, Quem vidistis, pastores? à 6
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Hodie Christus natus est
Benjamin Britten (arr. for SATB by Julius Harrison), A Ceremony of Carols
Traditional arr. Raiskums, O come, O come, Emmanuel; A Babe is born; Quem pastores laudavere; Unto us is born a Son
John Tavener, The Lamb
Elizabeth Poston, Jesus Christ the apple tree
Faire is the Heaven
St Mark’s Anglican Church, Fitzroy, Sunday 13 March 2005, 2.30 pm
John Sheppard, Missa Cantate
Thomas Weelkes, When David heard
Orlando Gibbons, O clap your hands
Henry Purcell, Remember not Lord, our offences; Hear my prayer, O Lord; I was glad
Charles Villiers Stanford, Beati quorum via, Op. 38, Nº 2
William Harris, Faire is the heaven
John Tavener, Hymn to the Mother of God; Love bade me welcome; Song for Athene
Victoria, Victoria
Trinity College Chapel, Parkville, Saturday 3 September 2005, 7.30 pm
St Mark’s Anglican Church, Fitzroy, Sunday 4 September 2005, 2.30 pm
Cornetti: Danny Lucin, Mark Skillington
Dulzian: Mitchell Cross, Brock Imison
Sackbutts: Robert Collins, Glenn Bardwell
Vihuela: Rosemary Hodgson
Tomàs Luis de Victoria:
Officium defunctorum (Requiem, 1605) à 6
Alma redemptoris mater à 8
Missa Lætatus sum à 12
Fauré Requiem
St Mark’s Anglican Church, Fitzroy, Friday 25 November 2005, 8.00 pm, Sunday 27 November 2005, 2.30 pm
Emily Ulrichs (s), Grantley Macdonald (bar), Jonathan Bradley (org)
Francis Poulenc, Quatre motets pour un temps de pénitence (1938–39)
Francis Poulenc, Figure humaine (1943)
Hector Berlioz arr. Legge, La mort d’Ophélie, Op. 18, Nº 2
Gabriel Fauré, Requiem in D minor, Op. 48 (1888 version)
Spem in Alium
St Mark’s Anglican Church, Fitzroy, Sunday 2 April 2006, 2.30 pm
Thomas Tallis, Spem in alium nunquam habui à 40
Robert Carver, O bone Jesu à 19
William Byrd, Diliges Dominum à 8
William Byrd, Peccavi super numerum à 5
Thomas Tomkins, O praise the Lord, all ye heathen à 12
Thomas Tomkins, O God, the proud are risen against me à 8
Henry Purcell, Thou knowest, Lord, the secrets of our hearts à 4
Henry Purcell, Lord, how long wilt thou be angry? à 5
Herbert Howells, Requiem (1932)
John Tavener, I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills
Thomas Tallis, Sing and glorify à 40
Brahms Requiem
St Mark’s Anglican Church, Fitzroy, Sunday x y 2006, 3.30 pm
(s), (bar), Jonathan Bradley (org)
Johannes Brahms arr. Raiskums, Ein deutsches Requiem, Op. 45
Centenary of Federation Concerts
Royal Exhibition Buildings, Melbourne, Saturday 12 May 2001, 8.00 pm, and Sunday 13 May 2001, 5.00 pm
Magna Peccatrix: Deborah Riedel (soprano)
Una pœnitentium: Elizabeth Whitehouse (soprano)
Mater gloriosa: Joanna Cole (soprano)
Mulier Samaritana: Birgit Remmert (alto)
Maria Ægyptiaca: Liane Keegan (alto)
Doctor Marianus: Keith Lewis (tenor)
Pater ecstaticus: Jonathan Summers (baritone)
Pater profundus: Daniel Sumegi (bass)
Chorus: Melbourne Chorale, RMPS, members of Sydney Philharmonia, Cantillation, Canberra Choral Society, and MUCS; chorus director: Jonathan Grieves-Smith
Australian Children’s Choir, National Boys Choir, National Girls Choir, Young Voices of Melbourne, The Australian Boys Choral Institute; chorus director: Peter Casey
Calvin Bowman (org), Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Markus Stenz
Gustav Mahler, Symphony Nº 8 in E flat
Brahms, A German Requiem
Melbourne Town Hall, Sunday 26 August 26 2001, 5.00 pm
Ellen Bennett (s), Lucas De Jong (bar), RMPS, MUCS, Melbourne Youth Orchestra, conducted by Peter Bandy
Richard Strauss, Töd und Verklärung
Johannes Brahms, Ein deutsches Requiem, Op. 45
Handel, Messiah
Melbourne Town Hall, Sunday 16 December 2001
Helena Dix (s), Teresa Fanning (ctlto), David Hamilton (t), Lucas De Jong (bar), Jonathan Bradley (hpschd), RMPS, Australian Classical Players, conducted by Andrew Wailes
George Frideric Handel, Messiah, an Oratorio, HWV 56
Music at the Movies
Melbourne Town Hall, Sunday 10 March 2002, 2.00 pm
David Rogers-Smith (t), Siegfried Franke (org), RMPS, Australian Classical Players, conducted by Andrew Wailes
Richard Strauss, Introduction to Also sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30
John Williams (arr. Whitney), Empire Strikes Back Medley
Edward Elgar, Nimrod from Enigma Variations
Eric Coates, Dambusters March
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Symphony Nº 25 in G minor, K183
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Requiem in D minor, K626
Bruce Rowland, Man from Snowy River
Johann Sebastian Bach, Toccata and Fugue in D minor
Tommaso Albinoni (arr. Remo Giuzotto), Adagio
Custer, Star Trek Medley (Alexander Stirling, Jerry Goldsmith)
James Horner (arr. Moss), Medley
Giuseppe Verdi, Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves from Nabucco
Giocomo Puccini, Nessun dorma from Turandot
Giuseppe Verdi, Anvil Chorus from Il Trovatore
Handel, Messiah
Sacred Heart Cathedral, Bendigo, Sunday 17 March 2002, 2.30 pm
St Mary Star of the Sea, West Melbourne, Saturday 30 March 2002, 3.00 pm
Helena Dix (s), Teresa Fanning (ctlto), Matthew Davine (t), Daniel Gare (bar), Jonathan Bradley (org), RMPS, Australian Classical Players, conducted by Andrew Wailes
George Frideric Handel, Messiah, an Oratorio, HWV 56
Mozart, Great Mass in C minor
Melbourne Town Hall, Saturday 11 May 2002, 8.00 pm
Sharon Kempton, Helena Dix (sopranos), Matthew Davine (t), Shane Lowrencev (b), RMPS, Australian Classical Players, conducted by Andrew Wailes
Peter Sculthorpe, Earth Cry
Philip Bračanin, Choral Symphony Nº 2
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Great Mass in C, K427 (417a)
Duruflé Requiem
St Patrick’s Cathedral
Tania Ferris (ctlto), Tom Drent (b), Sharon Draper (vc), Jonathan Bradley (org), RMPS, conducted by Andrew Wailes
Maurice Duruflé, Requiem, Op. 9
Maurice Duruflé, Quatre motets sur des thèmes Gregoriens, Op. 10
Olivier Messiaen, O sacrum convivium!
Carmina Burana
Costa Hall, Deakin University, Geelong, Saturday 8.00 pm
Melbourne Town Hall, Sunday 5.00 pm
Helena Dix (s), Andrew Wailes (t), Jose Carbo (bar), RMPS, MUCS, Vox Synergy, West Gippsland Chorale, Melbourne Youth Orchestra, conducted by Peter Bandy
Ludwig van Beethoven, Leonora Overture Nº 2
Antonín Dvořák, The Wood-dove, Op. 108
Carl Orff, Carmina Burana
A Philharmonic Christmas
Melbourne Town Hall, Sunday 22 December 2002, 5.00 pm
Jonathan Bradley (org), RMPS, Brass Ensemble, conducted by Andrew Wailes
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Hodie Christus natus est à 5
Giovanni Gabrieli, Jubilate Deo à 8
John Rutter, Gloria
Daniel Pinkham, Christmas Cantata
A Ceremony of Carols
St Mary Star of the Sea, West Melbourne, Saturday 14 December 2002, 8.30 pm
Louisa Hunter-Bradley, Tanya Riordan (sopranos), Philip Legge, Adam Boyt (tenors), Rod Reynolds (bass), MUCS, Mary Anderson (harp), Collegium Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Andrew Wailes
Arcangelo Corelli, Concerto Grosso, Op. 6, Nº 8 in G minor
Benjamin Britten (arr. for SATB by Julius Harrison), A Ceremony of Carols
Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Messe de Minuit pour Noël
C & C Rigg Bequest Concert
Melbourne Town Hall, Wednesday 7 May 2003, 8.00 pm
Michelle Cook (s), Tania Ferris (ctlto), MUCS, Victorian College of the Arts Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Marco von Pagee (Mahler) and Andrew Wailes (Brahms)
Johannes Brahms, Schicksalslied, Op. 54
Gustav Mahler, Symphony Nº 2 in C minor “Resurrection”
A Choral Sampler
Melba Hall, The University of Melbourne, Saturday 20 September 2003, 7.00 pm
Sarah Chan (s), Philip Legge (c-t), Boyd Owen (t), Rod Reynolds (b), Jonathan Bradley (organ), MUCS, Monash UCS, RMIT Occasional CS, conducted by Andrew Wailes and Trevor Jones
Anon, Gaudeamus igitur
Thomas Ford, Since first
Trad, Singabahambayo
Stephen Leek, Ngana
Iain Grandage, Hush
Eric Austin Phillips, Waltzing Matilda (arrangement)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ave verum corpus, K618
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Regina cœli, K282??
Trad, Wade in the Water
Alan Menken, Kiss the Girl
Al Rinker and Floyd Huddleston, Ev’rybody Wants to be a Cat
Brian Trant, Deep River (arrangement)
Anton Bruckner, Locus iste
Sergei Rachmaninov, Bogorodyitse Dyevo, raduisa (from Vespers, Op. 37)
Enoch Sontonga, N’kosi sikelele Afrika
Christopher Tye, Laudate nomen Domini
Handel’s Messiah, arranged by Mozart
Melbourne Town Hall, Sunday 21 December 2003, 5.00 pm
Jane Edwards (s), Deborah Humble (ctlto), Paul McMahon (t), Joshua Bloom (b), Jonathan Bradley (org), MUCS, RMP Choir and Orchestra, conducted by Andrew Wailes
George Frideric Handel arr. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Messiah, an Oratorio, HWV 56/K489
C & C Rigg Bequest Concert
Melbourne Town Hall, Wednesday 20 May 2003, 8.00 pm
MUCS, Victorian College of the Arts Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Marco von Pagee (Ravel) and Andrew Wailes (Vine)
Paul Dukas, Fanfare ‘la Peri’
Carl Vine, Choral Symphony (Nº 6)
Maurice Ravel, Daphnis et Chloë (complete)
Young Melbourne Composers
Kaleide Theatre, RMIT University, Melbourne, Friday 4 June 2004, 7.30 pm
RMIT Occasional Choral Society and instrumentalists, conducted by Sarah Chan and *Philip Legge
Michael Winikoff, Blue Sky, choral excerpts (World premiére)
*Philip Legge, Kubla Khan (World premiére)
Theresa Wallner, Peace Be, and other works (World premiére)
Ade Ishs, Moving Ashburton (World premiére)
Leanne Daharja Veitch, Wheel of the Year (World premiére)
Sandra Uitdenbogerd, Pomes (World premiére)
James Ong, An Old Irish Blessing (World premiére)
A concert full of unheard items! However the members of the audience were rather non-committal afterwards, when quizzed about which pieces were good, bad, or indifferent. I conducted my own composition, and Sarah conducted the rest. Unfortunately half of the tenors and basses dropped out before the concert or were playing instruments, which affected Kubla Khan somewhat worse than the rest of the programme.
Henry Purcell, The Fairy Queen
Ethel Osborne Hall, Emily McPherson building, RMIT University, Melbourne, Saturday 21 May 2005, 7.00 pm
Alexandra Oke, Louisa Billeter, Rachel Sztanski, Sarah Carpenter, Priscilla Lam (s), Heidi Claus, Alexandra Uitdenbogerd, Philip Legge (a), Chris Busietta (t), Oliver Mann, Rohan Wilksch (b), Ian Douglas (narrator), Meredith Lewis (dancer), RMIT Occasional Choral Society, Michael Winikoff (pf), conducted by Sarah Chan.
A Monteverdi Extravaganza
Kaleide Theatre, RMIT University, Melbourne, Friday 2 June 2006, 8 pm
RMIT Occasional Choral Society and instrumentalists, conducted by Philip Legge
Claudio Monteverdi:
Domine ad adiuvandum à 6
Beatus vir qui timet Dominum à 6
Canzonette d’Amore à 3
La fiera vista à 3
Ecco mormorar l’onde à 5
Si ch’io vorrei morire à 5
Cruda Amarilli à 5
Lasciatemi morire à 5
Chi’ome d’oro à 2
Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda à 3
L’Orfeo, Favola in Musica: Toccata à 5, Prologo, Atto Primo
Most notably,
The Choir of St Peter’s Eastern Hill: 1994–2006
(from time to time directed by Geoffrey Cox, Christopher Cook, Michael Leighton-Jones, John Weretka, and Grantley Macdonald.)
Jane Franklin Hall choir, directed by John Panckridge: 1990–91
Tasmanian Conservatorium Chorale, directed by Edward Talbot: 1991
and occasionally:
Schola Gregoriana Hobartiensis, directed by Bede Dunne: 1993
Schola Cantorum of Melbourne, directed by Gary Ekkel: 1997–2000
The St Patrick’s Cathedral Singers, directed by Geoffrey Cox: 1998–99
St John’s Southgate Bach Cantata Project: 2000–04, directed by Grahame Lieschke
Melbourne Chorale Symphonic Chorus, directed by Jonathan Grieves-Smith: 2001
Melbourne Chorale Ensemble, directed by Jonathan Grieves-Smith: 2004
Melbourne Chamber Choir, directed by Jan Blazejczak: 2003
Handel — Saul
Stanley Burbury Theatre, University Centre, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Saturday 8 June 1991, 7.45 pm
Robert Dawe (Saul, b), Marilyn Smith (David, a), Prof. Michael Stoddart (Jonathan t), Valerie Pennefather (Michal, s), Clifford Plumpton (Samuel, bar), Jessica Carrington (Merab, s), Gerald English (The Witch of Endor, t), Michael Jefferies (harp), Rod Thomson (org), Tasmanian Conservatorium Chorale and Orchestra, conducted by Edward Talbot
George Frideric Handel, Saul, HWV 53
Mozart and Rossini
Stanley Burbury Theatre, University Centre, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Saturday 7 September 1991, 8.00 pm
Jessica Carrington (Mozart: s), Ann Sparks (Rossini: s), Marilyn Smith (a), Prof. Michael Stoddart (t), Russell Smith (b), Elizabeth Rockliff (Mozart: pf), Christian Wojtowicz (Bach: vc), Robert Smith (Rossini: org), Conservatorium Chorale, conducted by Edward Talbot
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Vesperæ solenelle de confessore, K339
Johann Sebastian Bach, Suite Nº 3 in ?? major, BWV ____
Gioacchino Rossini, Stabat mater
A lamentable feature of this concert was the bass soloist’s utter inability, either in rehearsal or performance of the Stabat mater, to be able to count the number of semiquavers in a 2/4 bar. (Choristers familiar with their Rossini will probably know the passage I am talking about.) After making about 4 over-quick warbles instead of the expected 8 semiquaver notes, he sang the entire next phrase more than a crotchet ahead of the accompaniment, and to their great peril the other soloists blindly followed him, until they all went off the rails. Oops.
Hence Legge’s First Law of Musicians: there are two types of musicians, ones who can count, and those who can’t. (Guess which I am.)
1991 Hobart Subscription Series
ABC Odeon Theatre, Hobart, Friday 8 November 1991, 8.00 pm
Tasmanian Conservatorium Chorale, Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Vladimir Verbitsky
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Requiem in D minor, K626
A Gregorian Sampler
St Mark’s Church, Pontville, 14 March 1993, 2.30 pm
Ian Burk (org), Schola Gregoriana Hobartiensis, directed by Bede Dunne
Jean de Okeghem: Requiem Aeternam
Newman College Dining Hall, University of Melbourne, Saturday 12 April 1997
Schola Cantorum, directed by Gary Ekkel
Jean de Okeghem, Missa pro defunctis à 3
Jean de Okeghem, Mort tu a navré
Josquin Desprez, Nymphes des bois à 5
Nicolas Gombert, Musae Iovis
Claudio Monteverdi, Missa “In illo tempore” a sei voci (1610), Agnus Dei
Jean de Okeghem, Deo gratias à 36
I was one of the supernumary singers for the 36 voice canon, which is attributed to Jean de Okeghem on the grounds that he is known to have written a 36 voice canon but in a different configuration to the extant version (six voices by six rather than four by nine). The singers were arrayed in a wide circle around the gallery of the octagonal dining hall with bad sight-lines to the conductor and too great a distance apart for the piece to work at the intended tempo. I’ve since made a realisation of the canon, which I conducted at the 54th Intervarsity Choral Festival in July 2003.
The Cherubic Hymn: An Anthology of Russian Church Music
Newman College Dining Hall, University of Melbourne, Saturday 27 March 1999
Schola Cantorum, directed by Gary Ekkel
Anatoly Liadov, Glory to God in the Highest
Maksim Berezovsky, Do Not Reject Me in My Old Age
Dmitry Bortniansky, Let My Prayer Arise Nº 2
Alexei Lvov, Standing Before the Cross
Pavel Vorotnikov, The Wise Thief
Igor Stravinsky, Ave Maria
Sergei Rachmaninoff, The Theokotos, Ever-Vigilant in Prayer
Guiseppe Sarti, Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky, Now the Powers of Heaven
Anton Arensky, Nikolai Golovanov, Our Father
Miliy Balakirev and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Having Beheld the Resurrection of Christ
Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky, Mikhail Glinka, The Cherubic Hymn
Handel — Dixit Dominus
St Ignatius’ Church, Richmond, Melbourne, Saturday 15 July 2000
Susan Wuttke, Sharon Mulready, Bernadette Ballard (sopranos), Christopher Field (falsettist), Euan Brown (t), John Weretka (b), Schola Cantorum and Baroque Players, conducted by Gary Ekkel
George Frideric Handel, Dixit Dominus, HWV 232; Nisi Dominus, HWV 238; Laudate pueri Dominum in D, HWV 237
Antonio Caldara, Magnificat
George Frideric Handel, Salve Regina, HWV 241
Melbourne Festival 2001: Opening Concert
Sydney Myer Music Bowl, October 2001
Keith Lewis (t), Melbourne Chorale, State Orchestra of Victoria, conducted by Richard Gill
Hector Berlioz, Te deum, H118
Mozart: Life, Works, Death
Costa Hall, Geelong, 24 September 2004, 8.00 pm
Hamer Hall, the Arts Centre, Melbourne, 25, 27 September 2004, 8.00 pm
John Stanton (narrator), Kim Wheeler (s), Sally-Anne Russell (mezzo-s), Paul McMahon (t), Stephen Bennett (b), Melbourne Chorale Ensemble, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Manfred Honeck
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:
Symphony Nº 40 in G minor, K550
Maurerische Trauermusik, K477
Vesperæ solenelle de confessore, K339: Laudate Dominum
Requiem in D minor, K626 (completed by F.X. Süßmayr)
Motet: Ave verum corpus, K618
Lacrymosa from the Requiem (incomplete)
Melbourne Festival 2004
Melbourne Concert Hall
Waldemar: ?? (tenor)
Tove: (soprano)
Waldtaube: Bernadette Cullen (soprano)
Bauer: Gary Rowley (bass)
Klaus-Narr: (tenor)
Sprecher: Gerald English
Sydney Philharmonia, Melbourne Chorale Ensemble and Symphonic Chorus, Royal Melbourne Philharmonic Choir, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Markus Stenz
Arnold Schönberg, Gurre-lieder
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