Australian Music Centre | Breaking sound barriers

Event Details

The Latvian Radio Choir spreads its wings and flies with Australia’s own recorder queen, Genevieve Lacey. Join them as they look to the skies for dancing planets and soaring birds in the music of Pēteris Vasks. Get lost in the sheer beauty of Arvo Pärt’s Magnificat and listen to the world’s first singers in Hollis Taylor’s Bird on Byrd. Then experience an uplifting new commission from iconic Latvian composer, Ērik Ešenvalds, setting the words of multi-award-winning Australian author and poet, Alexis Wright..

Featured non-Australian music: Caroline Shaw: And the Swallow; Van Eyck: Engels Nachtegaeltje; Pärt: Magnificat and Nunc dimittis; Mendelssohn: Psalm XXII ‘Mein Gott, warum hast du mich verlassen’; Palestrina: Diminutions on Pulchra es anima mea; Pēteris Vasks: Our Mothers' Names; Ēriks Ešenvalds: Ceremony of Swans (New commission)

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Featured artists

• Music of Hollis Taylor
• Presented by Musica Viva Australia