Concert 1 2025
O Sing!
O Sing! takes up the theme of singing itself, in a diversity of music from Bach’s Singet dem Herrn to Luke Byrne’s Rainforest, via Romantic composers such as Brahms and Fanny Hensel. Much of this repertoire will be accompanying the choir on our tour to Switzerland in May.
PROGRAM
Heinrich Schütz - Singet dem Herrn
William Byrd - Sing joyfully
JS Bach - Singet dem Herrn
Anne Cawrse - How can I keep from singing ?
Gerald Finzi - My spirit sang all day
Sally Greenaway - Resonance
Nick Omiccioli - Song of joys
Josef Rheinberger - Morgenlied
Luke Byrne - Rainforest
Johannes Brahms - Es geht ein Wehen
Fanny Hensel - Nachtreigen
Conductor: Monica Buckland
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Concert 2 2025
O Mistress Mine
A lively program of Shakespeare settings by Vaughan Williams and Rebecca Clarke, among others, that take us over hill and over dale, from fairies and fantasy to the very real challenges of wooing fair maidens. It includes an outing into the more jazzy side of choral music with songs by George Shearing and John Rutter.
PROGRAM
Charles Wood - Full fathom five
Jaako Mäntyjärvi - Four Shakespeare Songs
Rebecca Clarke - A Lover’s Dirge
Iris Szeghy - Three Shakespeare Songs
Clive Lane - Dreaming Isle
Ralph Vaughan Williams - Three Shakespeare Songs
Alan Murray - O mistress mine
Matthew Harris - Three Shakespeare Songs
John Rutter - It was a lover and his lass*
George Shearing - Songs and Sonnets*
*Accompaniment: jazz piano + double bass
Conductor: Monica Buckland
Concert 3 2025
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O Adonai
O Adonai ended our year on a more contemplative note, as Concert 3 interweaves Arvo Pärt’s full set of “O” Antiphons with individual “O” settings by living composers, as well as works by Palestrina, Grieg, Bruckner and more.
PROGRAM includes:
Arvo Pärt - Sieben Magnificat Antiphonen
Anton Bruckner - Os justi
Hildegard von Bingen - O virtus sapientiae
GP da Palestrina - Alma Redemptoris Mater
Edvard Grieg - Ave maris stella
Roderick Williams - O Adonai
GP da Palestrina - Veni Domine et noli tardare
Rihards Dubra - O Radix Jesse
Thomas Tallis - O nata lux
James MacMillan - O Radiant Dawn
Ēriks Ešenvalds - O Emmanuel
Conductor: Monica Buckland
2025 European Tour: Singet!
Bel a cappella toured to Switzerland in May 2025 for a musical cultural exchange, presenting a cappella choral works by Australian composers in some of Europe’s most prestigious and historic venues in Zürich, Rheinfelden, St Gallen, Basel, Neuchâtel and Chaux-du-Milieu.
