The Australian Brandenburg Orchestra and countertenor Andreas Scholl feature in latest Bond installment.

The great 17th-century Venetian composer Antonio Vivaldi could not possibly have imagined that almost 400 years after his death his music would be adopted for the soundtrack of a film about an elite British spy. The same is probably true for Australian Brandenburg Orchestra’s Artistic Director Paul Dyer and German countertenor Andreas Scholl when they recorded their Vivaldi motets album in 2000. Yet this evening, when the greatly anticipated new James Bond movie Spectre has its Australian premiere in Sydney, the first Australians of the millions of movie-goers who will see the film worldwide in the coming weeks will hear a work from the ABO and Scholl’s Vivaldi collaboration, as part of the film’s soundtrack.

Daniel Craig as James Bond in Spectre

Although the film, which stars British actor Daniel Craig as 007, has not yet been screened in Australia, Paul Dyer shared with Limelight that the full five minutes of the haunting Cum dederit delectis suis sommun, from Vivaldi’s Nisi Dominus, is used in the film and accompanies a...