From the end of Friday night tickets are only available at the door. We do not sell tickets on-line on the day of the concert. Tickets for this concert have sold well, but Phillips Hall is a large venue, so there will be a seat for you. And every seat is a good seat. We hope to see you there.

Bach’s cantata Christ lag in Todesbanden (BWV4) is a baroque masterpiece. As an Easter work it celebrates the resurrection with an abundance of joyous hallelujahs and also finds exquisite counterpoint with the grief of Passiontide. Bach makes the most of the chorale tune, cutting it every which way for fugues, chorale preludes, and a spine-chilling duet before closing the work and our concert with an assured four-part hymnal rendition, as was often the tradition.

The great and the good of Leipzig would have been very familiar with this hymn tune, which would have been as much a signal of Easter to them as our chocolate eggs are today. And we have matched Bach’s work with the equivalent Christ lag in Todesbanden by Johann Kuhnau, who was Bach’s predecessor as Kantor at the Thomaskirche in Leipzig. These two cantatas form the sandwich for our concert.

For the sandwich filling musical director, Amy Moore, has selected two German baroque versions of Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied.  The work by Heinrich Schütz is from the early baroque and still very much has a renaissance feel. This is in strong contrast to Bach’s celebrated version (BWV225) which is the epitome of high baroque, replete with ornamentation, giving plenty of notes for the chamber choir to sing.

Phoenix Choir perform with four professional soloists, string quartet and organ continuo under the direction of Amy Moore.

Phillips Hall, Blackheath
Gardiner Crescent, Blackheath NSW 2785

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