Coming Soon in 2018...
Hopes of Heaven
- a wish for peace in our time
Sunday 1 July, 2.30pm
St Johns Cathedral, 373 Ann Street, City
$30 / $22 / under 16 free - tickets available through Canticum, at the door from 2pm on concert day, or through 4MBS.
In this centenary year commemorating the end of World War I, Canticum presents a programme of emotion-laden works, including Brisbane-based composer Phillip Gearing’s Pro Patria Mori - a compelling choral cycle using texts of eminent soldier poets from the Great War, including Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg and John McCrae.
Canticum is delighted to welcome the talented Justine Favell to play the demanding piano accompaniment, and equally delighted that the composer will be singing the work with us on this occasion.
Complementing this, works by Eric Whitacre (When David Heard), Healey Willan’s soaring An apostrophe to the Heavenly Hosts, and works by Grieg, Tveit and Pärt will transport the listener through darkness into light.
This project is kindly supported by the Lord Mayor’s Suburban Initiative Fund and Central Ward Councillor.
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"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 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
"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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