Agatha Christie's Poirot and Miss Marple - Theme Music

Poirot Theme Music

The soundtrack to Agatha Christie's Poirot, featuring the haunting main theme and many variations thereon over the nearly 30 years of production, will forever be associated with David Suchet as Poirot. 

Television Theme Music of Agatha Christie's Poirot. 

YouTube, uploaded by Prodromos Michailidis. Accessed August 12, 2023.

In total, there are 70 episodes produced over 13 Poirot series.

The 13 series

The following is a list of episodes for the British crime drama Agatha Christie's Poirot, featuring David Suchet as Poirot, which first aired on ITV from 8 January 1989 to 13 November 2013. In total, 70 episodes were produced over 13 series.

Miss Marple Theme Music

Miss Marple Main Theme, with Joan Hickson as Miss Marple. 

This is a celebration of the music for Agatha Christie's Miss Marple starring Joan Hickson. Composed by Ken Howard and Alan Blaikley, the music is from CD released in 1993, performed by Video Symphonic.  YouTube, uploaded by writebrobp. Accessed June 3, 2019.  Ken Howard is an English songwriter, lyricist, author and television director. Alan Blaikley is also a songwriter and composer.

Sydney Philharmonia Choirs' Centenary in 2020: Celebrating 100 Years

Choral Music / Choral Singing

(Sadly, SPC's concerts -  St. John Passion Re-Imagined, Mendelssohn's Elijah, and A Centenary Celebration - have been cancelled due to coronavirus crisis. We have faith and hope this pandemic will end soon.) 

The year 2020 is a special year for Sydney Philharmonia Choirs as it celebrates 100 years of singing and music-singing with a future-focused program, shining light on Australian composers, and on the organisation’s longstanding commitment to collaboration, community and connection.

Sydney Philharmonia Choirs marks 100 years since 12 church choristers first met in 1920, forming the original “Hurlstone Park Choral Society”. It also pays tribute to the many collaborations and partnerships that have seen the organisation mature over the decades, reinforcing its position as Australia’s leading choral organisation, recognised around the world for their contribution to Sydney’s vibrant artistic and cultural identity.

To fulfill the artistic vision for SPC's Centenary, at the heart of the celebrations is Sydney Philharmonia's commissioning of “100 Minutes of New Australian Music”, to be premiered as part of the Choirs’ 2020 Season.  This new music will be created for SPC by emerging and established composers. From the most well-known composers, “100 Minutes of New Australian Music” embraces a diverse expertise, representative of the rich makeup of Australia’s music community: with pieces by Brett Dean, Elena Kats-Chernin, Deborah Cheetham, Joseph Twist, Brooke Shelley, James Henry, Nardi Simpson, Will Yaxley, Matthew Orlovich, Daniel Brinsmead, Maria Lopes, and Andrew Anderson.

These world premiere performances will feature throughout the year and on SPC's European tour. Works from these 12 Australian composers will make their debut as part of the initiative, including four on the international stage, as part of a European tour in October.

Comprising a variety of works created to varying length, scale and theme, the composite “100 Minutes of New Australian Music” will showcase a uniquely Australian contribution to the art form of choral music.

Sydney Philharmonia Choirs' Dvorak Requiem

CHORAL MUSIC / Sydney Philharmonia Choirs


Sydney Philharmonia Choirs presents:
DVORAK REQUIEM
Saturday,  21 September 2019, 8PM
Concert Hall, Sydney Opera House 

Free pre-concert talk in the Northern Foyer 45 minutes prior to the concert.
Sponsored by Fine Music FM.

(Note: This is the last concert of the Sydney Philharmonia Choirs' Festival Chorus at the Sydney Opera House due to the major renovation of the Concert Hall, for completion 2022.)

Experience the moving drama of Antonin Dvorak's finest choral creation. In this concert, 350-voice Festival Chorus – the philosophical heart of the Sydney Philharmonia Choirs organisation – joins forces with the talented young musicians of the Sydney Youth Orchestra and some of Australia’s finest vocal soloists under the baton of Maestro Brett Weymark, Sydney Philharmonia Choirs' Artistic and Music Director. Don’t miss this rare opportunity!

Dvořák’s Requiem hasn’t appeared in Sydney Philharmonia Choirs programming since the 1980s. This ‘Mass for the Dead’ is generally regarded as his finest creation for voices and orchestra and over the course of an hour-and-a-half it takes musicians and listeners on a deeply moving journey of drama and reflection.

This requiem was commissioned by the Birmingham Festival in 1891, when Dvořák was already an established composer of international repute, although the New World Symphony and the Cello Concerto were still a few years away. The premiere was a huge success, prompting George Bernard Shaw to mock the English fondness for requiems: ‘the public loves everything connected with a funeral.’ But behind the sneer is a truth. Choirs and audiences really do love requiems – the catharsis, the drama and the beauty of contemplation. It’s as if through the shared experience of music, we can come to terms with the prospect of our own mortality.

Soloists:

Taryn Fiebig, Soprano
Fiona Campbell, Mezzo soprano
Andrew Goodwin, Tenor
Michael Honeyman, Baritone