Music for Passiontide (including Pergolesi's Stabat Mater)

Name: Music for Passiontide (including Pergolesi's Stabat Mater)
Start: 2025-04-18T15:00:00+10:00
End: 2025-04-18T15:00:00+10:00
Location: Christ Church South Yarra

Featuring the combined voices of two of Melbourne's finest community choirs, Box Hill Chorale and Star Chorale, and outstanding soloists - Stella Horvath (soprano), Michael Burden (alto) and Jack Jordan (tenor) - this concert features a beautiful program of music for Passiontide, performed on Good Friday.
The concert will feature a rare performance of the Vienna choral version of Pergolesi's final famous masterpiece: the "Stabat Mater” of 1736, as well as excerpts from Handel's "Messiah", Orlando Gibbons' "This Is The Record of John", and miniature masterpieces by J.S. Bach, Wolfgang Mozart and Karl Jenkins. Under the direction of conductor Andrew Wailes, the concert will also feature strings of the Royal Melbourne Philharmonic Orchestra, and chamber organist William Schmidt, and will be performed in the magnificent setting and superb acoustics of historic Christ Church South Yarra.

Friday 18 April 2025 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM (UTC+10)

Giovanni Battista PERGOLESI:

Stabat Mater (Vienna Version)

George Friderick HANDEL:

Messiah excerpts

Orlando GIBBONS:

This Is The Record Of John

J.S. BACH, W.A. MOZART and K. JENKINS

Miniature Masterworks

Featuring:

Andrew Wailes, conductor
William Schmidt, chamber organ
Stella Horvath, soprano
Michael Burden, alto
Jack Jordan, tenor
Box Hill Chorale
The Star Chorale
Royal Melbourne Philharmonic Orchestra
For further information please visit www.starchorale.org or www.boxhillchorale.org.au