Late Night in the Cathedral – Adelaide Chamber Singers (9 March)

PROGRAM

Magnificat – Arvo Pärt

Kyrie (from Mass for 5 Voices) – William Byrd

Kyrie After Byrd (after Byrd – Kyrie: Mass for 5 Voices) – Roxanna Panufnik

Mille Regretz – Josquin des Prez

Missa Sans Regretz – Brooke Shelley

Leonardo Dreams Of His Flying Machine – Eric Whitacre

Ave Verum Corpus – William Byrd

Ave Verum Corpus Re-Imagined – Roderick Williams

If, as they say, the past is ‘a foreign country’ then we are its émigrés and our heritage abides in our cultural diaspora! Music of the past has inspired Panufnik, Pärt, Williams and Shelley and their point of departure is glorious polyphony from the cradle of choral music – the Renaissance. And for Whitacre and Leonardo da Vinci? Theirs is an altogether different flight of the imagination!