Coming up in 2019...
Handel - Israel in Egypt
Sunday 17 November, 3.00pm (pre-concert talk with Graham Abbott at 2.15pm)
Brisbane City Hall Auditorium
Balcony (reserved seating): $55 / $50 concession
Stalls (general admission): $50 / $45 concession
Under 18 (stalls only): $15
Tickets available at the door or through 4MBS.
This collaboration with Brisbane Chorale and Camerata brings Handel's magnificent oratorio back to Brisbane after more than a 2-decade absence.
Soloists include Sarah Crane (soprano), Emily Turner (soprano), Jessica Low (mezzo soprano), and Nick Kirkup (tenor), Shaun Brown (baritone) and Daniel Smerdon (baritone). In addition, organist Christopher Wrench will open the concert with movements from Handel’s sparkling Organ Concerto No 13.
Conducted by acclaimed music personality Graham Abbott, this is a spectacle not to be missed!
Join us at 2.15pm for a pre-concert talk with Graham Abbott.
This is sure to sell out, so get in early to book your tickets!
Sunday 17 November, 3.00pm (pre-concert talk with Graham Abbott at 2.15pm)
Brisbane City Hall Auditorium
Balcony (reserved seating): $55 / $50 concession
Stalls (general admission): $50 / $45 concession
Under 18 (stalls only): $15
Tickets available at the door or through 4MBS.
This collaboration with Brisbane Chorale and Camerata brings Handel's magnificent oratorio back to Brisbane after more than a 2-decade absence.
Soloists include Sarah Crane (soprano), Emily Turner (soprano), Jessica Low (mezzo soprano), and Nick Kirkup (tenor), Shaun Brown (baritone) and Daniel Smerdon (baritone). In addition, organist Christopher Wrench will open the concert with movements from Handel’s sparkling Organ Concerto No 13.
Conducted by acclaimed music personality Graham Abbott, this is a spectacle not to be missed!
Join us at 2.15pm for a pre-concert talk with Graham Abbott.
This is sure to sell out, so get in early to book your tickets!
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And another video, with a message from Graham Abbott...
Click on the link below to see our Australian Cultural Fund crowdfunding project for Israel in Egypt. All donations over $2 are tax deductible, and donations of $50 and over will be acknowledged in our printed concert program. We'd love to have your support!
https://australianculturalfund.org.au/projects/handels-israel-in-egypt/ Sing Noel - Carols on the Cliffs
A service of Lessons and Carols Sunday 15 December, 5.10pm St Mary’s Anglican Church, 455 Main St, Kangaroo Point Free admission Join us for our annual service of Christmas Lessons and Carols, with readings, carols and community singing, reflecting on the coming of Christmas. Enjoy organ music for the season played by Christopher Wrench from 5.10 pm, and be sure to join us for drinks on the lawn after the service in the summer twilight, overlooking Brisbane. "Luminescence" CD
This lovely recording from 2016 includes the following repertoire, and was recorded to mark our 21st year as an ensemble.
For full texts and translations and the digital CD booklet, please go to the link at the bottom of the "Luminescence" page via the "Buy CD Online" button below. Keren Terpstra (Australia) Light Joseph Twist (Australia) Ubi Caritas Phillip Gearing (Australia) Only the Light Frederik Sixten (Sweden) The Fleeing Child is Jesus Morten Lauridsen (USA) Sure on this shining night Paul Mealor (UK) Ubi Caritas Arvo Part (Estonia) 7 Magnificat Antiphons David Hamilton (New Zealand) Ecce Beatam Lucem Giselle Wyers (USA) The Waking Randall Thompson (USA) Choose something like a star Ola Gjeilo (Norway) Ubi Caritas Eriks Esenvalds (Latvia) Stars |
What people are saying about Canticum...
About Love and Mercy, 2019
"Yesterday afternoon, I went to the Canticum Choir's concert in Caloundra. I was absolutely BLOWN AWAY! I felt as if I'd died and gone to heaven. I couldn't wipe the smile off my face. I felt as if my body was levitating to the ceiling of the church."
Audience member, 2019
About Hopes of Heaven, 2018
Yesterday afternoon I had the greatest joy to attend Canticum Chamber Choir's Hopes of Heaven Concert. I was very nearly reduced to silent tears on numerous occasions. Oh the music! The music was exquisitely moving. It was composed, sung, played, and conducted so very well. I am in awe and very proud of you all! Well done everyone indeed and thank you for such a beautiful concert!
Audience member, 2018
About Seven Last Words from the Cross, 2018
"Thank you so much for the stunning and extraordinary performance on Friday night. I can’t even find the words to describe how the performance seemed to get inside me so I was feeling as though I were part of the story. Anyway, it sure was amazing.”
Audience member, 2018
About Lagrime di San Pietro, Good Friday Musical Meditation, 2017
"What a professional group! We could put you in a concert hall in Paris or Milan and you wouldn't be out of place."
Audience member, 2017
About Women of the Pieta, Brisbane Baroque Festival, 2016
"a delightful part of the Brisbane Baroque Festival, well conceived and planned and superbly executed. As has been my previous experience, Emily draws out the best from Canticum, and on this occasion the women of the choir sang with precision and warmth. It was an interesting experience to hear the women sing Vivaldi in 4 voices – it was a delicate and rich but no less strong sound quite different from that produced by men singing the bass and tenor lines"
Canticum Follower, 2016
About Northern Light, Southern Star, 2015
"Attended afternoon concert by Canticum Chamber Choir - the last words of the James Agee poem "sure on this shining night I weep for wonder" is as good a description of their luminescent singing as any compliment I could give - congratulations to the choir and to Emily Cox"
Canticum Follower, 2015
About Dido and Aeneas, Brisbane Baroque Festival, 2015
"Of course, Purcell’s most memorable characters are the witches ... they don’t just steal the show, they hot-wire it, drive it away into a wall and then cackle about the whole thing in the pub afterwards"
Limelight Magazine Live Reviews, April 2015. See full review here
About Good Friday Musical Meditation, 2014
"..and so thank goodness for Emily Cox and her superb semi-professional Canticum Chamber Choir, now in its 20th year. The Sacred Heart Church at Rosalie was full to overflowing on Good Friday with people eager to hear some of the most sombre and moving music ever composed, ranging from the Tudor composer Thomas Tallis to the 20th century Hungarian Gyorgy Deak-Bardos and his agonising Eli Eli with its shattering choral glissandi"
Daily Review, 2015. See full review here
About Dream of Gerontius, 2014
"this performance was a testament to her influence (Emily Cox) in many directions, particularly demonstrated by her choirs, the Brisbane Chorale and Canticum Chamber Choir, whose vocal forces produced Priest’s Assistants, Angelicals, Demons, Voices on Earth and Souls in Purgatory. Precision, clarity, control and great musicality characterised their singing"
4MBS Classic FM, 2014. See full review here
"Yesterday afternoon, I went to the Canticum Choir's concert in Caloundra. I was absolutely BLOWN AWAY! I felt as if I'd died and gone to heaven. I couldn't wipe the smile off my face. I felt as if my body was levitating to the ceiling of the church."
Audience member, 2019
About Hopes of Heaven, 2018
Yesterday afternoon I had the greatest joy to attend Canticum Chamber Choir's Hopes of Heaven Concert. I was very nearly reduced to silent tears on numerous occasions. Oh the music! The music was exquisitely moving. It was composed, sung, played, and conducted so very well. I am in awe and very proud of you all! Well done everyone indeed and thank you for such a beautiful concert!
Audience member, 2018
About Seven Last Words from the Cross, 2018
"Thank you so much for the stunning and extraordinary performance on Friday night. I can’t even find the words to describe how the performance seemed to get inside me so I was feeling as though I were part of the story. Anyway, it sure was amazing.”
Audience member, 2018
About Lagrime di San Pietro, Good Friday Musical Meditation, 2017
"What a professional group! We could put you in a concert hall in Paris or Milan and you wouldn't be out of place."
Audience member, 2017
About Women of the Pieta, Brisbane Baroque Festival, 2016
"a delightful part of the Brisbane Baroque Festival, well conceived and planned and superbly executed. As has been my previous experience, Emily draws out the best from Canticum, and on this occasion the women of the choir sang with precision and warmth. It was an interesting experience to hear the women sing Vivaldi in 4 voices – it was a delicate and rich but no less strong sound quite different from that produced by men singing the bass and tenor lines"
Canticum Follower, 2016
About Northern Light, Southern Star, 2015
"Attended afternoon concert by Canticum Chamber Choir - the last words of the James Agee poem "sure on this shining night I weep for wonder" is as good a description of their luminescent singing as any compliment I could give - congratulations to the choir and to Emily Cox"
Canticum Follower, 2015
About Dido and Aeneas, Brisbane Baroque Festival, 2015
"Of course, Purcell’s most memorable characters are the witches ... they don’t just steal the show, they hot-wire it, drive it away into a wall and then cackle about the whole thing in the pub afterwards"
Limelight Magazine Live Reviews, April 2015. See full review here
About Good Friday Musical Meditation, 2014
"..and so thank goodness for Emily Cox and her superb semi-professional Canticum Chamber Choir, now in its 20th year. The Sacred Heart Church at Rosalie was full to overflowing on Good Friday with people eager to hear some of the most sombre and moving music ever composed, ranging from the Tudor composer Thomas Tallis to the 20th century Hungarian Gyorgy Deak-Bardos and his agonising Eli Eli with its shattering choral glissandi"
Daily Review, 2015. See full review here
About Dream of Gerontius, 2014
"this performance was a testament to her influence (Emily Cox) in many directions, particularly demonstrated by her choirs, the Brisbane Chorale and Canticum Chamber Choir, whose vocal forces produced Priest’s Assistants, Angelicals, Demons, Voices on Earth and Souls in Purgatory. Precision, clarity, control and great musicality characterised their singing"
4MBS Classic FM, 2014. See full review here
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