Lamentation & Joy 2020

A ravishing feast of music featuring some of Sydney's finest musicians.

The performance will include members of Pinchgut Opera, The Song Company, Australian Brandenburg Orchestra and brass players of the Sydney Symphony and Opera Australia Orchestras.

All works will be performed one voice per part, featuring a number of antiphonal Gabrieli motets, Allegri's 'Miserere', as well as Tallis' 'Lamentation of Jeremiah I' _and Tomkins' 'When David Heard' for men's voices. Also in this concert will be Bach's earliest known cantata '_Nach dir, Herr, verlanget mich', Buxtehude's 'Der Herr ist mit mir', as well as Bach's great motet 'Jesu Meine Freude'.

Programme:

• Jesu Meine Freude | Johann Sebastian Bach

• In ecclesiis | Giovanni Gabrieli

• Magnificat | Giovanni Gabrieli

• Miserere | Gregorio Allegri

• When David Heard | Thomas Tomkins

• Lamentations of Jeremiah I | Thomas Tallis

• Suscipe clementissime Deus | Giovanni Gabrieli

• Nach dir, Herr, verlanget mich | Johann Sebastian Bach

• Der Herr ist mit mir | Dieterich Buxtehude

Featuring:

• Soprano | Chloe Lankshear, Claire Burrell-McDonald, Amber Johnson

• Alto | Michael Burden, Oscar Smith

• Tenor | Elias Wilson, Thomas Hallworth

• Bass | Hayden Barrington, Jack Stephens

• Organ | Hamish Wagstaff, Samuel Giddy

• Violin | James Tarbotton, James Armstrong

• Bassoon | Tiger Chou

• Cello | Sophie Funston

• Double Bass | Linh Nguyen

• Trombone | Scott Kinmont, Nigel Crocker, Nick Byrne,

• Greg van der Struik, William Kinmont & Brett Page

• Trumpet | David Elton & Simon Wolnizer

COVID-19 SAFETY

We will be limiting the number of people in the Cathedral in accordance with current Public Health Orders and ensuring appropriate physical distancing at all times.

Hand sanitiser will be available and audience members over the age of 12 are required to wear masks.