Classic Melbourne

Melbourne Bach Choir: A Christmas Fanfare
2024-11-30 17:00 - 19:00 (Australia/Melbourne) | Auburn Uniing Church
Melbourne Bach Choir presents A Christmas Fanfare

Carols and seasonal music for choir, brass and organ

Melbourne Bach Choir: Serenity
2023-06-24 14:00 - 15:30 | Ballarat Central Uniting Church, 103 Lydiard Street South, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
“Serenity” features beautiful timeless music that includes the Maurice Duruflé Requiem and shorter works by JS Bach, Brahms, Duruflé, Fauré, Messiaen and Rheinberger
Saturday 24 June at 2pm, Ballarat Central Uniting Church, 103 Lydiard Street South, Ballarat Vic 3350
TICKETS: Adult – $45; Pensioner – $35; Student – $20
Ballarat: https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing?eid=1052157&
Melbourne: https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing?eid=1051329& – Saturday 1 July 2023 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM
NB Tickets will also be available on the door

Melbourne Bach Chamber Choir: Mozart Vespers, Bach Treasures
2022-04-16 20:00 - 22:00 | Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank Boulevard, Melbourne, VIC, 3004, Australia
Melbourne Bach Chamber Choir makes its Melbourne Recital Centre debut with a program of much-loved works by Mozart and J.S. Bach.
Rick Prakhoff conducts and Madeleine Easton, Director of Bach Akademie Australia, leads the orchestra. Mozart’s Solemn Vespers, including the sublime Laudate Dominum, is joined with the best known of Bach’s Orchestral Suites, source of the Air on the G String, and the joyful Easter cantata No.66, Erfreut euch, ihr Herzen.
Artists
Melbourne Bach Chamber Choir and Orchestra
Rick Prakhoff conductor
Madeleine Easton orchestra leader
Lorina Gore soprano
Shakira Dugan mezzo-soprano
Timothy Reynolds tenor
Christopher Tonkin baritone
Tickets
Premium $110 ($95 Concession)
A reserve $90 ($80 Concession)
B reserve $80 ($65 Concession)
C reserve $60 ($50 Concession)
Student
Premium $95
A reserve $65
B reserve $50
C reserve $40
Two-Concert Package
Buy tickets to Melbourne Bach Choir’s St Matthew Passion and Mozart Vespers, Bach Treasures and save $10.

Verdi Requiem - Melbourne Bach Choir & Zelman Memorial Symphony Orchestra
2019-09-08 14:30 - 18:00 | Melbourne Town Hall, Corner of Swanston and Collins Streets, Melbourne, Vic, 3001, Australia
Melbourne Bach Choir and Zelman Memorial Symphony Orchestra are proud to bring you the Verdi Requiem with a cast of four superb Australian soloists under the baton of Rick Prakhoff.
Soprano Helena Dix recently made her New York Metropolitan Opera debut. Last November she sang the Verdi Requiem with London Philharmonic Orchestra at the Royal Albert Hall. Jacqueline Dark is a multiple Helpmann and Green Room Award- winning mezzo-soprano. Australian tenor Paul O’Neill has, over the past decade, forged a compelling international career in opera houses and concert halls throughout Europe and Australasia. Adrian Tamburini is well-known to Zelman Symphony audiences having sung in Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 and Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 13, Babi Yar.
Often described as Verdi’s greatest opera, his Requiem is an expansive yet tightly knit masterpiece of monumental drama and intense emotion.

In Memoriam - Mozart Requiem
2018-09-08 20:00 - 22:00 | Melbourne Recital Centre, 31, Sturt Street, Southbank, VIC, 3006, Australia
Mozart’s timeless Requiem is the centrepiece of this concert of works written on similar themes, beginning with Mozart’s expressive Passion aria for soprano, Kommet her, ihr frechen Sünder (1779).
JS Bach’s cantata Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen (whose opening later became the Crucifixus of his Mass in B minor) includes Bach’s first extended solo for oboe in the beautiful aria for alto, a duet for bass and tenor, and a mournful tenor aria.
Remembrance is the specific focus of two heartfelt 20th-century miniatures, Stravinsky’s In memoriam Dylan Thomas for tenor and small ensemble, and Arvo Pärt’s haunting Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten.
Rick Prakhoff conducts the Melbourne Bach Choir, orchestra, and four outstanding soloists. Jaqueline Porter (Soprano), Sally-Anne Russell (Mezzo-Soprano), Andrew Goodwin (Tenor), and Andrew Jones (Baritone).
