We start 2020 with a bright baroque concert of Vivaldi’s Gloria and Magnificat performed with strings and soloists.
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Vivaldi
Gloria e Magnificat
a celebration of the baroque with choir,
soloists and string orchestra
16 & 23 May
Hoskins Uniting Church, Lithgow
St Hilda’s Anglican Church, Katoomba
Later in 2020 we have a complete change of mood with a performance of Rossini’s operatic Stabat Mater with four splendid soloists complementing the dramatic chorusses. This is scheduled for the weekend of 8/9 August and followed by the Blackheath Choir Festival where both the main choir and the chamber choir will perform.
Rossini
Stabat Mater
an operatic masterpiece with dramatic
chorusses and lyrical solo arias
8 & 9 August
Venue to be confirmed
We will finish off the year with Rheinberger’s The Star of Bethlehem, a Romantic cantata of the Christmas story in a special arrangement for wind ensemble by Rowen Fox, which Phoenix Choir premiered in 2017 to great acclaim.
Rheinberger
The Star of Bethlehem
a popular Christmas cantata with
shepherds, angels and wisemen
following the star
21 & 28 November
For 2021, you can look forward to Handel’s oratorio Israel in Egypt in the middle of the year, a major project which we will perform with large choir and full orchestra under the Sing in the Mountains banner.
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