End of Semester Concert: Baroque Ensemble and Early Voices

The Early Music Studio and Early Voices proudly presents a semester’s work from its students. Biber’s remarkable Battalia evokes the excitement, fear, and loss, and drunken soldiers getting ready to fight: watch out for the cellos, who will be firing rounds across the auditorium! Rebel’s Les Caractères de la Danse brings together the finesse of French dance with the raw energy of Italian virtuosity, and McGibbon’s Theme and Variations showcase the remarkable baroque language of Scotland. Featured vocal works include the aria “cum dederit” from Vivaldi’s Nisi Dominus, and the beloved Beatus Vir by Monteverdi, and the recorder ensemble transports you to the 16th century with a chanson that embodies the disillusion felt by one of the greatest Habsburg Emperors. The programme closes with Vivaldi’s Beatus Vir combining instrumental and vocal forces in a setting of same text as Monteverdi’s, and written in a style from the other end of the baroque period. 

PROGRAMME

Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber Battalia 

Antonio Vivaldi Nisi Dominus: Cum dederit
Soloist - Sophia Gyger

Recorder Ensemble: Tielman Susato, Mille Regretz; Johann Mattheson, Sonata Op 1/3

Johann Mattheson Sonata Op 1/3 

William McGibbon Theme and Variations

Claudio Monteverdi Selva morale e spirituale: Beatus vir
Soloists - Stella Horvath, Sophia Gyger, Matthew O’Leary, Nicholas Matters, Alexander Humphreys

INTERVAL

JF Rebel, Les Caractères de la Danse 

A Vivaldi Beatus Vir
Soloists - Maya Charles Sedergreen, Stella Horvath, Kate Pengelly, sopranos; Lucy Hood, alto; Nicholas Matters, Matthew O’Leary, tenors; Alexander Humphreys, bass.

CREDITS

Early Voices Director:  Stephen Grant

Early Music Studio tutors
Rachael Beesley, Tim Willis, violin
Shane Lestideau, violin and viola
Josie Vains, cello
Greg Dikmans, traverso
Ryan Williams, recorders
Donald Nicolson, continuo

Image credit: Siege of Vienna, 1683. Frans Geffels

PARKING

The City of Melbourne has recently changed the parking restrictions around the Southbank Campus. Parking control hours are now expanded to 7am–10pm, seven days per week, and are capped at three hours. A $2-per-hour fee after 7pm is also now in place. There is no change to the $4-per-hour peak rate between 7am–7pm. Parking inspectors are regularly in the area fining drivers who overstay their meter, so we encourage everyone to be aware and avoid an expensive fine. More information. 

ACCESSIBILITY

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IMPORTANT INFORMATION

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