We are a world and classical music choir based on the beautiful Central Coast just north of Sydney, Australia. We are passionate about polyphony! We love to sing music from regions around the world which have a strong tradition of singing in harmony. ...  moreWe are a world and classical music choir based on the beautiful Central Coast just north of Sydney, Australia. We are passionate about polyphony! We love to sing music from regions around the world which have a strong tradition of singing in harmony. Music from Eastern Europe, Georgia, Africa and Jamaica etc finds its way into our repertoire. We also love to sing some beautiful classical works and Mozart, Bortniansky and Bach is much loved by the singers. Most of our music is unaccompanied, except when our very talented instrumentalists (guitar, harp, cello, ukes, bodhran...) bring their instruments.  less

Another work from the Stone&Tara Songbook this week. 'In Lucem' is a song of hope and love. The emotional lyrics are inspired by the biblical book of Job, the man who lost everything he had. We are providing a translation of the Latin lyrics below. In...  moreAnother work from the Stone&Tara Songbook this week. 'In Lucem' is a song of hope and love. The emotional lyrics are inspired by the biblical book of Job, the man who lost everything he had. We are providing a translation of the Latin lyrics below. In Lucem You will forget your sorrow. You will be happy, you will clothe yourself in light. Your sadness will be made a vague memory. We will shout and sing and reap in joy. We will laugh again, we will love again. Our sadness will be like a river Traveling across the earth, flowing into the ocean. You will forget your sorrow. You will be happy, you will clothe yourself in light.  less

[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the Choir]   Shama is from Bangladesh. She loves choral singing, but wonders if all choral music is religious:   “I love singing and have been singing sinc...

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www.facebook.com/ensemblenobiles www.twitter.com/NobilesLeipzig www.youtube.com/NobilesLeipzig Ensemble Nobiles presents ADVANCE AUSTRALIA FAIR to celebrate AUSTRALIA DAY. live recording: 24.01.2015, Leipzig/Germany We are looking forward to...  morewww.facebook.com/ensemblenobiles www.twitter.com/NobilesLeipzig www.youtube.com/NobilesLeipzig Ensemble Nobiles presents ADVANCE AUSTRALIA FAIR to celebrate AUSTRALIA DAY. live recording: 24.01.2015, Leipzig/Germany We are looking forward to our AUSTRALIA TOUR 05th-17th March 2015 sponsored by Australian Bach Society, Goethe-Institut and City of Leipzig. See you in Melbourne, Brisbane, Canberra or Sydney!  

Erik Satie's Sarabande No. 1 is one of my favourite piano pieces. For a long time, I felt there was an a cappella choral piece hiding within it, in plain sight. One day I got inspired and gave it a try. Creating a choral adaptation of a piano piece ha...  moreErik Satie's Sarabande No. 1 is one of my favourite piano pieces. For a long time, I felt there was an a cappella choral piece hiding within it, in plain sight. One day I got inspired and gave it a try. Creating a choral adaptation of a piano piece has its challenges. I tried to keep faithful to Satie's original musical inspiration and created lyrics to go with my arrangement that evoke an early summer morning, one of my favourite times of the year. Several months later, I applied to be a participant at one of the Vancouver Chamber Choir's Interplay workshops funded by the SOCAN Foundation and to my delight I was accepted. "As dawn breaks" was one of the pieces that this amazing choir sight read for me on the spot. VCC director Jon Washburn and choir members then provided me with valuable feedback, for which I am very grateful. NB: One day I woke up to the realization that I had independently written four choral works, each of which had evoked a different season, and so it seemed natural to group ...    less

Aestas Vocis performs the renowned Durufle's surreal and mesmerizing arrangement of the Latin text. Performed at their summer concert, "Songs of Faith and love," at Westminster Presbyterian Church, Munster, IN.

Birds' Lullaby, 3 Canadian Nocturnes, movement III) text: Emily Pauline Johnson music: Nathaniel Barnes singer: Matthew Curtis I Sing to us, cedars; the twilight is creeping With shadowy garments, the wilderness through; All day we have carol...  moreBirds' Lullaby, 3 Canadian Nocturnes, movement III) text: Emily Pauline Johnson music: Nathaniel Barnes singer: Matthew Curtis I Sing to us, cedars; the twilight is creeping With shadowy garments, the wilderness through; All day we have carolled, and now would be sleeping, So echo the anthems we warbled to you; While we swing, swing, And your branches sing, And we drowse to your dreamy whispering. II Sing to us, cedars; the night-wind is sighing, Is wooing, is pleading, to hear you reply; And here in your arms we are restfully lying, And longing to dream to your soft lullaby; While we swing, swing, And your branches sing, And we drowse to your dreamy whispering. III Sing to us, cedars; your voice is so lowly, Your breathing so fragrant, your branches so strong; Our little nest-cradles are swaying so slowly, While zephyrs are breathing their slumberous song. And we swing, swing, While your branches sing, And we drowse to your dreamy whispering. http://www.choirplace.com...    less

The Graduate Choir NZ performs "A Mother as lovely as You" on TVNZ's Praise be. Māori folk melody "Hoea ra" (sometimes known as "Come, O maidens") by Pariare Tomoana (~1875 - 1946). David Smith and Harry Connelly adapted it and added a verse for use a...  moreThe Graduate Choir NZ performs "A Mother as lovely as You" on TVNZ's Praise be. Māori folk melody "Hoea ra" (sometimes known as "Come, O maidens") by Pariare Tomoana (~1875 - 1946). David Smith and Harry Connelly adapted it and added a verse for use as a Mother's Day tribute. This choral arrangement was made by Terence Maskell in 2006 for The Graduate Choir NZ for its Mother's Day recital at that time. --- The Graduate Choir NZ Director of Music: Terence Maskell http://www.graduatechoir.co.nz http://www.facebook.com/TheGraduateChoirNZ http://www.twitter.com/GraduateChoirNZ --- Praise be http://tvnz.co.nz/praise-be --- Recorded 31 August 2011 at Pitt St Methodist Church, Auckland, New Zealand. http://www.methodistcentral.org.nz ---  less

"HASTA MI FINAL" (de Il Divo). W.HECTOR, S.MAC, R.PEREZ Coral Santiago Apóstol Director: Mariano García Solistas: Antonio Oliva, Antonio Sánchez, Alejandro Guerrero, Paqui Aguilera XXI Encuentro de Coros de Alpiarça Casa dos Patudos, Alpiarça (Po...  more"HASTA MI FINAL" (de Il Divo). W.HECTOR, S.MAC, R.PEREZ Coral Santiago Apóstol Director: Mariano García Solistas: Antonio Oliva, Antonio Sánchez, Alejandro Guerrero, Paqui Aguilera XXI Encuentro de Coros de Alpiarça Casa dos Patudos, Alpiarça (Portugal) 10 de mayo de 2014 ----- CORAL SANTIAGO APOSTOL Casarrubuelos (Madrid) www.coralsantiagoapostol.com www.facebook.com/coralsantiagoapostol twitter: @CSApostol coral@coralsantiagoapostol.com Teléfono: (+34) 656161440 CORO ENCANTO de Casarrubuelos (Madrid) www.coroencanto.com www.facebook.com/coroencantocasarrubuelos twitter: @Coro_Encanto info@coroencanto.com Teléfono: (+34) 656161440  less