Past Concerts
Redemptorist Monastery North Perth
Perth Concert Hall
Handel’s Messiah needs no introduction to Perth audiences nor does this choir’s highly charged dramatic interpretation. Our 2011 season will again feature a spectacular line up of soloists and a wonderful first class baroque orchestra. We are happy to announce that Paul Wright will again take the chair as concert master and lead the orchestra into an inimitable Christmas musical experience.
For tickets contact BOCS: http://www.bocsticketing.com.au/whats-on/359/handels-messiah/
Wesley Uniting Church, Perth
Experience the thrill of Handel’s Messiah given by a massed UWA Extension choir joined by the renowned Collegium Symphonic Chorus conducted by Dr Margaret Pride.
The performance will include the famous ‘Hallelujah Chorus’, ‘The Trumpet Shall Sound’ and the climactic closing ‘Amen Chorus’
For more information, tickets, or to join, see: http://www.extension.uwa.edu.au/course/CC147
St Patrick's Basilica, Fremantle
The Requiem was Mozart’s last composition and is one of his most popular and respected works, in spite of its incompletion at his death. The beauty of its melodic lines and effectiveness of its text setting always reward an audience with a profoundly moving musical experience. Our performance in a historical church setting will add further to the special meaning of this great work.
Winthrop Hall, University of Western Australia
BOUNTEOUS BEETHOVEN
Saturday 14th May 2011 at 8.00pm
Winthrop Hall, University of Western Australia
- Choral Fantasy for Piano, Choir and Orchestra Op 80
- Egmont Overture Op 84
- Mass in C Op 86
Beethoven’s Mass in C is regarded by many as a grossly neglected masterpiece. Constantly contrasting soloists with chorus, the work is endearing for its similarity to his great concertos. Added to the typical textures and orchestration of these works is the grandeur of a chorus in full voice, lifting the listener’s spirits forever upward.
Even more akin to his great piano concertos is his Piano & Choral Fantasia, scored for piano soloist, chorus and full orchestra. Aside from the virtuosic piano writing & expressive orchestration, the work concludes with an earlier version of the theme and variations used for the spectacular close of his ninth symphony.
Piano Soloist: David Wickham
Perth Concert Hall
Handel's Messiah
Celebrate the festive season at this powerful performance of the most famous oratorio ever written.
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Trinity Church, Perth
Come along and listen to community members, soloists and the Collegium Symphonic Chorus directed by Margaret Pride perform an abridged version of Handel's Messiah.
St Mary's Cathedral
Durufle Requiem
Holst's Sacred Songs for Women's Voices and Harp
Music for Harp, Organ and Cello
The soaring architecture of the new St Mary's Cathedral with its magnificent organ is the perfect venue for the peaceful tranquility of the Gregorian tunes of the mass for the dead upon which Maurice Durufle drew when he wrote his Requiem, in memory of his father.
Here is French impressionism at its most serene; not the thunder and grief of Verdi and Berlioz, but the exquisite peace of reaffirmation.
The Requiem is perfectly complimented by the ethereal beauty of Holst's Sacred Songs for Women's Voices and Harp.
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Eager Patrons waiting to hear the concert
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St Joseph's Church
Subiaco
J.S. Bach Mass in G
J.S. Bach Brandenburg Concerto
Images from the Concert
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Winthrop Hall
Review from The West AustralianSeptember 3, 2009Neville Cohn
The Creation by HaydnWinthrop HallClever use of the trappings of theatre - and some very fine singing - transformed a performance of Haydn's oratorio The Creation into one of the most absorbing presentations of this flawed masterpiece that I can recall in decades. During the opening moments when the first words of Genesis are sung, the choir was in darkness. But at the point when the word 'light' in 'Let there be light' was uttered, the stage was transformed by a blaze of intense white illumination; it was a magical moment, the first of many as Haydn's lengthy opus unfolded. With serried ranks of the choir singing from memory, director Margaret Pride did the work proud, presiding with practised ease over her Collegium Symphonic Chorus and Collegium Baroque Ensemble. Throughout the lengthy oratorio, the meaning and intent of the libretto were enhanced by colour images projected onto a large screen to one side of the ensemble. However, the images of the cosmos, oceans and various beasts were so striking that they tended to draw attention from the main game - the music. Perhaps smaller screens to either side might have been less distracting. Periodically, we heard extracts from Milton's Paradise Lost declaimed from a lectern to one side of the stage by Edgar Metcalfe in excellent fettle... As ever, the choir sang with the disciplined ease that is one of the most consistent features of a Pride-run choir. Three evenly matched vocal soloists added to this lustrous presentation with soprano Stephanie Gooch, tenor Christopher Saunders and bass Mark Alderson all demonstrating a very real understanding of oratorio style. How pleasing, for once, to hear those much loved arias 'With Verdure Clad' and 'In Native Worth' sung, not as stand-alone offerings, but in the context of the oratorio as a whole. |
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