Voices of the Italian Baroque

The Baroque era gave us splendid architecture and magnificent art. It also inspired glorious music that resonated under the gilded domes and painted ceilings of Italy’s great chapels, that echoed from balcony to balcony in St Mark’s Venice.

Sydney Philharmonia Choirs invites you to step back to a visionary age when music evoked powerful emotions with striking and dramatic musical imagery — even in church!

This transcendent program begins with Domenico Scarlatti’s intense, almost graphic setting of the Stabat Mater followed by expressions of faith and joy, and a fervent mass setting by Monteverdi. Through it all you’ll hear the Chamber Singers, weaving together in 4, 8, 10 or more parts as they move you to ecstasy, and tears, in this celebration of the Italian Baroque.

Presented by Sydney Philharmonia Choirs