• Garden of Earthly Delights

    Luminescence Chamber Singers: Garden of Earthly Delights

    Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    A garden teeming with temptation and desire, grotesque creatures and improbable scenes of surrender: the uninhibited world of Hieronymus Bosch’s 500-year-old triptych “De tuin der lusten”. Baffling his Dutch contemporaries and the casual tourists in Madrid’s Prado in equal measure (not to mention generations of art critics) Bosch’s Garden of…

    Music at the Basilica: The Saddest Sound, the Sweetest Sound

    Basilica of St Mary of the Angels Yarra Street, Geelong, VIC, Australia
    Exquisite bird music by Gibbons, Lassus, Ravel, Elgar, Vaughan Williams, Whitacre, Paul McCartney, Michael Hannan, Iain Grandage and Christopher Tin, performed by Vox Angelica Geelong Chamber Choir. This is the opening concert of the 16th Annual Windfire Music Festival, Geelong.

    Canberra Choral Society: Songs of Open Country

    Wesley Uniting Church, Forrest (Wesley Music Centre) 20-22 National Circuit, Forrest, ACT, Australia
    Canberra Choral Society (CCS) welcomes the arrival of Spring with a concert of beautiful choral music that evokes a sense of place, tells stories of vast landscapes, and celebrates the celestial forces that shape them. Both intimate and expansive, the program features traditional Icelandic and Appalachian songs alongside contemporary works…
    Editor's Choice

    Opera Australia: Mozart Requiem

    City Recital Hall Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Opera Australia presents a one-off performance of one of choral music’s more operatic blockbusters – Mozart’s Requiem, a work shrouded in mystery since it was left incomplete at the time of the composer’s death in 1791. A slightly scattergun concert begins with the OA Orchestra playing a handful of popular hits,…
    The Tallis Scholars

    Melbourne Recital Centre: The Tallis Scholars – Concert One

    Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    With its cathedral of sound, the intricate harmonies of Nicholas Gombert’s eight-part Credo opens this first of two performances, marking the Scholars first Melbourne appearance in three years. The delicate beauty of Thomas Crecquillon’s Andreas Christi famulus transports listeners to the courts of 16th-century Europe, before the thrilling contrast of…
    The Tallis Scholars

    Melbourne Recital Centre: The Tallis Scholars – Concert Two

    Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    In this awe-inspiring performance weaving through sacred music spanning nearly a millennium, The Tallis Scholars showcase what critics have described as their ‘gloriously golden tone’ (The Guardian). From the mystical chants of Hildegard von Bingen through to the ethereal harmonies of Arvo Pärt, the crystalline voices of the The Tallis…
    The Tallis Scholars

    Canberra Theatre Centre: The Tallis Scholars

    Canberra Theatre Centre Canberra, ACT, Australia
    Prepare to be transported by the award-winning British vocal ensemble, The Tallis Scholars, as they bring their exquisite sound to the Canberra Theatre Centre for one night only. Known for their stunning a cappella performances and celebrated for their mastery of sacred vocal music, The Tallis Scholars present a superbly curated program inspired…
    The Tallis Scholars

    QPAC: The Tallis Scholars – Chant

    QPAC Corner Melbourne St and Grey St, South Bank, QLD, Australia
    Acclaimed vocal ensemble The Tallis Scholars return to QPAC this October with a superbly curated program inspired by Gregorian chant. Featuring works across eight centuries, from medieval composer and visionary Hildegard von Bingen, to one of today’s most popular living composers, Arvo Pärt, audiences will be transported to an exquisite…
    Garden of Earthly Delights

    Luminescence Chamber Singers: Garden of Earthly Delights

    Soldiers' Memorial Hall, Bundanoon 3 Railway Ave, Bundanoon, NSW, Australia
    A garden teeming with temptation and desire, grotesque creatures and improbable scenes of surrender: the uninhibited world of Hieronymus Bosch’s 500-year-old triptych “De tuin der lusten”. Baffling his Dutch contemporaries and the casual tourists in Madrid’s Prado in equal measure (not to mention generations of art critics) Bosch’s Garden of…