Tuesday, 7 August 2018, 6:30pm
Melbourne Recital Centre – Elisabeth Murdoch Hall
Sound of Science (lecture demonstration)
How have acoustics of buildings shaped the music that is composed to be performed within them?
Join acoustician Cameron Hough and Ensemble Gombert in discovering how church music changed from plainsong to polyphony in the more reverberant acoustic of Renaissance Italian churches to the contrapuntal cantatas by Bach in the drier acoustic of German churches.
Explore how the different acoustics of the Eisenstadt Palace and the Hanover Square Rooms influenced Haydn’s writing in his symphonies, and how Wagner created a completely new sound-world for opera in his new theatre at Bayreuth.
Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina Stabat mater
Johann Sebastian Bach Singet dem herrn (first section)
Soprano
Carol Veldhoven; Katherine Lieschke; Victoria Brown
Katharina Hochheiser; Claerwen Jones; Mandie Lee
Alto
Belinda Wong; Juliana Kay;
Yi Wen Chin; Niki Ebacioni
Tenor
Tim van Nooten; Peter Campbell;
Vaughan McAlley; Stuart Tennant; Michael Stephens
Bass
Nicholas Tolhurst; Andrew Murray;
Christian Smith; Mike Ormerod