Via Crucis - A different Easter celebration

Arvo Pärt celebrates his 75th birthday in 2010 – not that anyone should need an excuse to perform such breathtakingly beautiful music! ‘Tintinnabulation’ is the technical name, but the technique, inspired by the clear, pure sound of ringing bells, offers a listening experience unlike any other. It may be Sydney outside, but in Verbrugghen Hall, you will be far away in a place of uttermost calm. The program also features the Australian premiere of Scotsman James MacMillan’s Tenebrae Responsories, inspired by the strikingly dramatic harmonies of Renaissance master Carlo Gesualdo. And then it seemed only fair to let Gesualdo speak for himself…
The program also features the Australian premiere of Scotsman James MacMillan’s Tenebrae Responsories, inspired by the strikingly dramatic harmonies of Renaissance master Carlo Gesualdo. And then it seemed only fair to let Gesualdo speak for himself

Sydney Chamber Choir & Ironwood
Conductor: Paul Stanhope

Saturday 3 April 7.30pm (Easter Saturday)
Verbrugghen Hall, Sydney Conservatorium of Music Macquarie Street, Sydney

ARVO PÄRT Berlin Mass
CARLO GESUALDO Selections from the Tenebrae Responsories for Easter Saturday
JAMES MACMILLAN Tenebrae Responsories – selections (Australian premiere)
JOSEPH HAYDN Consummatum Est from The Seven Last Words of Christ on the Cross
ANTONIO LOTTI Crucifixus a 8

Tickets are $45 full, $30 concession.
Book online http://www.stickytickets.com.au/2916/Sydney_Chamber_Choir_Via_Crucis.aspx
Or call Anna on ph: 0412 093 063 or email: cenika.anna@gmail.com

Haydn The Bold, Haydn the Beautiful

Don't miss our very first concerts of our 2010 series, entitled 'Haydn The Bold, Haydn the Beautiful'- Love and Loss; Storm and Stress; Classical Symmetry and the emergence of Romantic Spirit.

This is the story of Haydn’s little heard Opus 20 quartets and his later regal Opus 77 quartets, with the beautiful textures and warm sounds of gut stringed instruments. Visit an age of eighteenth century elegance and intrigue with twenty-first century time-travellers Ironwood. We take you on a dramatic musical journey in a program which includes a beautiful miniature by Boccherini, and a world premiere by Australian composer Damian Barbeler, Silk Panels for gut stringed instruments of the classical age.

Concert dates:
Sydney: Monday 15 March 2010
Melbourne: Thursday 25 March 2010

Rachael Beesley and Julia Fredersdorff, violins; Nicole Forsyth, viola and Daniel Yeadon, cello


Program:
Boccherini String Quartet
Haydn String Quartet Op 20 No 3 in G minor
Damian Barbeler Silk Panels (World premiere)
Haydn String Quartet Op 77 No 1 in G major

Sydney: 8pm Monday 15th March 2010
The Barnet Long Room, Customs House, Circular Quay, Sydney
Tickets: $38 Full; Conc & Under 30: $25
Bookings: (02) 9389 8117 / 0412 093 063 or www.ironwoodchamberensemble.com


Melbourne: 7.30pm Thursday 25th March 2010
Fortyfivedownstairs, 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne
Tickets: $38 Full; Conc & Under 30: $25
Bookings: (03) 9662 9966 or www.fortyfivedownstairs.com

“...fantastic. This ensemble is quite something!” Canberra Times, March 2009
“This may sound like the name of a rock band, but Ironwood consists of gifted musicians,
each of whom are specialists in period performance practice” The West Australian March 2009
“…obvious enjoyment, fine musicality, in perfect balance...” Australian Stage Online 2009