Sydney Philharmonia Choirs - To Be Sung in Water

Choral Singing / Chamber Music

 

Sydney Philharmonia Choirs 
21 November 2015, 11AM & 5PM
Sydney Opera House  

 

Join the SPC - Chamber Singers for this intimate performance.  

The Utzon Room of the Sydney Opera House is the perfect backdrop for a concert that celebrates vocal music inspired by water. As well as two world premieres by Australian composers Rosalind Page and Luke Byrne, hear the sublime vocal music of Eric Whitacre, Frederick Delius and Ralph Vaughan Williams. Be surprised by the possibilities of choral music with Stars by the lauded Latvian composer Ēriks Ešenvalds, a piece that employs water-tuned glasses for celestial effects.


PROGRAMME:

• MATTHEW ORLOVICH (Words: Victor Carell) Tides of Ocean
  
• GIOVANNI da PALESTRINA (Text: Psalm 42:1)  Sicut Cervus
  
• ARR. JAMES ERB  Folksong "Shenandoah"
  
• ARR. HIGGINBOTTOM  Traditional Somerset Folksong "O Waly, Waly"
  
• ROSALIND PAGE (Fragments by Steinn Steinarr, Charles Baudelaire's L'Invitation au Voyage and August STrindberg's Dreamplay)  Time and Water (world premiere)
  
• FREDERICK DELIUS  Two Unaccompanied Part Songs: To be sung of a Summer night on the water  
  
• ARR. RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS  Just as the tide was flowing- No.3 from 5 English folk songs  
  
• SAMUEL BARBER  (Words: Louise Bogan) To be sung on water
  
• CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI  (Words: Torquato Tasso) Ecco Mormorar L’Onde
  
• DAN WALKER (Words: Roger McDonald)  The Pool
  
• ERIC WHITACRE (Words (Octavio Paz)  Water Night
  
• ERIKS ESENVALDS  A drop in the ocean
  
• HEINRICH SCHUETZ   Vasto Mar
  
• JUDITH BINGHAM  & SIR CHARLES WILLIERS STANFORD (Words: Judith Bingham and Mary E. Coleridge)  The Drowned Lovers (reworking of Bluebird by Stanford)
  
• LUKE BYRNE (Words: Adapted from historical sources)  Desert Sea (world premiere)
  
• ERIKS ESENVALDS (Words: Sara Teasdale) Stars
  

 'To Be Sung in Water' Setting, Utzon Room, SOH

Saturday 21st November, 11am
Meet Music Director Brett Weymark over a cup of coffee after the performance

Saturday 21st November, 5pm

Meet Music Director Brett Weymark over a glass of wine after the performance.

Utzon Room, Sydney Opera House
Conductor: Brett Weymark
Sydney Philharmonia Choirs Chamber Singers

Review:

• To Be Sung On Water (Sydney Philharmonia Choirs). Reviewed by Clive Paget on November, 2015.
  

 

 

Resources: 

 

To be sung on Water. Australian Music Centre. Accessed October, 2015. 
Sydney Philharmonia Choirs. (as available)l
Sydney Philharmonia Choirs Repertoire Programme. 

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