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From touchingly pure Sephardic Jewish prayer to the grandeur of Elgar and Rachmaninov via heaven-resounding paeons by Gabrieli, Pachelbel and Charpentier. This concert opens with Telemann’s rousing motet on Luther’s A Mighty Fortress and features Beethoven’s wonderful setting of The Heavens are Telling.

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 Georg Philip Telemann (1681–1767), psalm 46, Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott           

Edward Elgar (1857–1934), psalm 48, Great is the Lord (opus 67)

Nicola LeFanu (b. 1947), psalm 65

Giovanni Gabrieli (c. 1555–1612), psalm 66, Plaudite omnes terra            

Allesandro Grandi (1590–1630), psalm 67, Deus misereatur nostri

Chant from an offertory from Roman Catholic liturgy, psalm 76          

Severus Gastorius (1647–1682), psalm 8, Sommarpsalm (op een melodie van Gastorius)  

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827), psalm 19, Die Himmel rühmen

Jewish Prayer in Sephardic Style/Kärleken till livet, psalm 29, (anonymous; Georg Totari)                          

Sergej Rachmaninov (1873–1943), psalm 104, Blagoslovi duche moya             

Giovanni Bernardino Nanino (c. 1560–1623), psalm 113, Laudate pueri

Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643–1704), psalm 111, Confitebur tibi

Johann Pachelbel (1653–1706), psalm 100, Jauchzet dem Herrn alle Welt

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Queensland Ballet's male dancers in rehearsal for Soldiers’ Mass by contemporary choreographer Jiri Kylian. The piece explores the horrors of war through the eyes of young soldiers, and is part of Queensland Ballet’s The Masters Series.

Image Lyndon Mechielsen, The Australian

 

Supported by Amnesty International.
Commissioned work supported by the Commissioning Circle.

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