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Unison Voices - Breath of Ecstasy
Unison Voices is a project-based adult choir founded last year by their conductor, Stephan Gericke. The Choristers are from all walks of life with one thing in common - the love of making beautiful music. In this virtual concert they will showcase performances for choir and small ensemble by inspiring contemporary choral composers: Trotta, Whitacre and Gjeilo. The concert’s title, Breath of Ecstasy, is derived from Michael John Trotta’s setting of Sara Teasdale’s Love Songs. This work was commissioned to celebrate the centennial of Sara Teasdale winning the first Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1918. The concert starts with this seven-movement work for choir, oboe and string quartet. Programme: 1. For a breath of ecstasy – Michael John Trotta 2. Glow – Eric Whitacre 3. The seal lullaby – Eric Whitacre 4. Luminous night of the soul – Ola Gjeilo Oboe: Clorinda Panebianco Violin: Calayde Davey/ Linnet Labuschagne/ Christopher Evans Viola/Piano: Tessa Olivier Cello: Werndt van Staden/ Nathalie Roué This virtual concert is a celebration of choral music and poetry, soothing music for the soul and an exploration on the theme of love. It offers a breath of musical ecstasy to break the boundaries of life during lock-down.
The Minuet Suite Re-imagined Bach
Presented by Biblioteek produksies. Daniel Zachariah Franks: upright bass, violins, mandolin, and oud Elton Goslett: guitars Dr. Marc Rontsch: guitars 335 years and 6 days after Johann Sebastian Bach came into the world on 21 March 1685, South Africa went into Covid-19 lockdown… In his 65 years, Bach composed 1128 pieces. During #lockdown2020, us musicians had plenty of time to go through our favourite Bach pieces and see which among them we could best twist and turn into our unique style. And so we present ‘The Minuet Suite’, three Bach minuets re-imagined in gypsy-jazz style, straight from the tip of Africa. PROGRAMME: Minuet 1 (Originally BWV Anh 116) We’ve ‘mutated’ this melody and given it a typical gypsy-jazz arrangement. The mandolin and principal violin play the melody in unison, while the 5-string violin doubles it down an octave and the bass walks the changes along to the guitar’s rhythm. Minuet 2 (Originally BWV 822) This arrangement also features unison mandolin and violin parts on the head with the oud doubling the melody an octave lower. All gypsy-jazzified… Minuet 3 (Originally BWV Anh 114) We call this one ‘faux-Bach’ but we love it nonetheless. We play this Bach-esque melody closer to the tempo of a traditional gypsy waltz.
Chopin Poet of the Piano Episode 2
Episode 2. Music Appreciation by Elizabeth Handley
CHOPIN POET OF THE PIANO Episode 1
Episode 1. Music Appreciation by Elizabeth Handle
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Love(Opera) in the time of Corona from Vienna
Leah Manning (Soprano) Sergio Tallo-Torres (Tenor) Robert Lillinger (Piano) Love (Opera) is a classical concert from Vienna, showcasing the prettiest soprano and tenor arias and duets from celebrated operas and operettas, if there ever was a performance that celebrates love and music in perfect harmony, this must be it. In July 2019 Leah and Sergio performed together in Verdi’s Opera Rigoletto at Brooklyn Theatre, Pretoria, and South-Africa. They regularly perform together in Vienna. The six performances was sold out. The music must not stop and a concert was recorded in Vienna that complies with strict and special government rules in Corona Times. This implied that the two singers had to sing duets two meters apart, which are one of the weirdest elements to incorporate in opera. The name of the concert was inspired by the very famous novel from Garcia Marques, Love in the time of Cholera. Make sure to do your part and support the artists in the first operatic concert performance on Brooklyn Theatre TV.
Mozart Exsultate Jubilate
Ilze Coetzee (soprano) & Marnus Greyling (organ) St. George's Anglican ChurchZürich Rieger Pipe organ The magnificent Rieger
Derek Gripper LIVE in Melbourne Last show before Lockdown
Derek finished the sixteenth of his Australian concerts in Melbourne