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Gracie In Grazia In Thanksgiving
Event Date: 13/11/2022, 02:30 pm
Bach Akademie Australia crowns an epic 2022 concert season in Chatswood
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As audiences return to the concert halls after a profoundly challenging two years,
Bach Akademie Australia (BAA) and its redoubtable Artistic Director, violin virtuoso Madeleine Easton, present Grazie in Grazia:
two November concerts dedicated to the spirit of thanksgiving - at Our Lady of Dolours, Chatswood and City Recital Hall, Angel Place.
The program marks a journey from Italy to Germany with works by Monteverdi, Marini, Merula, Gabrieli, Schütz and - of course - the celestial, immortal Johann Sebastian Bach.
“All of us have been through indescribable hardships over the last two years,” says Madeleine, “for each of us different but no less profound.
Upon reflection, it is clear that being grateful for what we have here and now, has helped sustain us through the pandemic.”
It is in this spirit that BAA presents Claudio Monteverdi’s Mass of Thanksgiving, written to give thanks after the great plague of 1631.
Also featured is Monteverdi’s celebrated student Heinrich Schütz whose life was also deeply affected by plague and war,
and who became one of J.S. Bach’s greatest inspirations and mentors.
The powerful climax is Bach’s greatest and most joyful Christmas Cantata BWV 63 ‘Christen, ätzet diesen Tag’,
remembering that - in Madeleine’s words “After all is said and done - it is joy that music brings us.
And there’s none better than J.S. Bach to take us out of the darkness and into the light.”
Location:
Our Lady of Dolours Church, 94 Archer Street,
Chatswood New South Wales,2067
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