Ensemble Gombert performs Without Regrets

Melbourne’s outstanding chamber choir specialising in a cappella performances of Franco-Flemish music of the High Renaissance. This is a program of choral music by Australian composers, all of whom write originally and individually, but in a traditional vein. The concert takes its name from the major work, a Mass by Sydney composer Brooke Shelley, who modelled her composition on a High Renaissance Mass based on the chanson Mille regretz (A thousand regrets).

Vaughan McAlley’s De profundis also harks back to the Renaissance in its compositional technique, while Calvin Bowman’s double-choir settings of four of John Donne’s Holy Sonnets is more Romantic in its musical language. Joe Twist’s How shall we sing the Lord’s song in a strange land? takes its name from a verse of Psalm 137, but it is essentially a setting of the poem A Song of Hope by Oodgeroo of the Noonuccal tribe.

This upload was made possible thanks to support from the Department of Education and Training, and the Peggy and Leslie Cranbourne Foundation.

PROGRAM

VAUGHAN McALLEY (b. 1970)
De profundis

00:04:13
BROOKE SHELLEY (b. 1975)
Messe sans Regretz
I Kyrie
II Gloria
III Sanctus
IV Benedictus V Agnus Dei

00:18:09
JOSEPH TWIST (b. 1982)
How shall we sing the Lord’s song in a strange land?

00:25:26
CALVIN BOWMAN (b. 1972) Death be not proud
I If faithful souls
II Thou hast made me
III At the round earth’s imagined corners
IV Death be not proud

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