Tag Baroque music
Eastertide
Adelaide Baroque 23 March 2024 at St John’s Church, Halifax St. A sizeable audience attended both performances of the fitting sacred music for the week before Easter. The program was well-balanced and imaginative, including little known pieces from Brockes Passion.…
Musique Vivante 2nd July 2023
The intimate space of the Gallery Mezzanine 55 was inviting and vibrant on a cold Sunday afternoon. Thediverse and colourful pictures caught the eye and the harpsichord and music stands had an expectant air. We were promised ‘Reflections on life…
Adelaide Baroque
Illustrious and incomparable: The extraordinary woman of the Baroque Elder Hall June 18th 2023 The scene on entering the inviting Elder Hall on a cold Winter afternoon promised a fascinating concert. The harpsichord with its beautiful painted lid by the…
Adelaide Baroque – Let the Bright Seraphim
Adelaide Baroque’s latest concert demonstrated the precision, imagination and excellence that one expects from their productions. It was a pleasure to hear lesser-known works among more familiar ones performed by a close-knit, competent ensemble and brilliant soloists. Handel was a…
Adelaide Baroque
Adelaide Baroque at the Cathedral of St Francis Xavier in Adelaide March 31st 2023 Vivaldi ‘Nisi Dominus’ RV 608 and Alessandro Scarlatti ‘Stabat Mater’A beautiful venue for these two emotional religious works with the apt visuals complementing the music. The…
Palatial Treats: New North Adelaide Baroque Hall
Graham Strahle reports on a concert given by Tarrawatta Trio in the newly completed North Adelaide Baroque Hall on 4 December, 2022 “Small is beautiful” was the renowned maxim of E. F. Schumacher, the British writer who advocated small-scale, human-centred…
Adelaide Cantata Band
Chamber Concert Sunday 25 September St John’s Anglican Church, Halifax St, Adelaide Jessica Dean – soprano Jane Downer – Baroque oboe, oboe d’amore and oboe da caccia Brendan O’Donnell – recorder and voice flute Catherine Finnis – Baroque cello Glenys…
Baroque Organ Concertos
Organ: Josh van Konkelenberg Orchestra leader: Ben Dollman Saturday 24th September St Peter’s Cathedral. Organist Josh van Konkelenberg gave the audience a program of music from two of the Baroque greats: Bach and Händel (both born in 1685), with two…
William Morris, Arnold Dolmetsch and the Early Music revival
Adelaide has the largest collection of William Morris artworks outside Britain. There will be a talk accompanying Musiqiue Vivante's concert in All Soul's Church, St Peters, on Sunday 29th May at 2pm.
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