Monday, 16 September 2019, 6pm
Melbourne Recital Centre – Primrose Potter Salon
Without Regrets
Melbourne Recital Centre Local Heroes Series 2019
This is a program of choral music by Australian composers, all of whom write originally and individually, but in a traditional vein. The concert takes its name from the major work, a Mass by Sydney composer Brooke Shelley, who modelled her composition on a High Renaissance Mass based on the chanson Mille regretz (A thousand regrets).
Vaughan McAlley’s De profundis also harks back to the Renaissance in its compositional technique, while Calvin Bowman’s double-choir settings of four of John Donne’s Holy Sonnets is more Romantic in its musical language. Joe Twist’s How shall we sing the Lord’s song in a strange land? takes its name from a verse of Psalm 137, but it is essentially a setting of the poem A Song of Hope by Oodgeroo of the Noonuccal tribe.
Vaughan McAlley
De profundis
Brooke Shelley
Messe sans regretz
Joseph Twist
How shall we sing the Lord’s song in a strange land?
Calvin Bowman
Death be not proud
Soprano
Deborah Summerbell; Carol Veldhoven; Katherine Lieschke~;
Victoria Brown*; Claerwen Jones; Elizabeth O’Leary*
Alto
Belinda Wong*; Juliana Kay*;
Yi Wen Chin; Niki Ebacioni; Rebecca Collins
Tenor
Tim van Nooten; Peter Campbell;
Vaughan McAlley; Stuart Tennant; Michael Stephens*
Bass
Nicholas Tolhurst*; Andrew Fysh;
Thomas Bell; Mike Ormerod; Mark Thawley*
~Soloist in Twist
*Soloists in Shelley