Pre-Concert Talk: The Choir of King's College, Cambridge
Join Doctor David Larkin as he provides insight into the varied program of The Choir of King's College, Cambridge.
Please note the program order has changed slightly since the recording of this pre-concert talk. This confirmed order is:
Program 1: Sydney (Sydney Opera House), Perth (Perth Concert Hall), Brisbane (QPAC), Adelaide (Adelaide Town Hall).
HANDEL Zadok the Priest
GABRIEL O magnum mysterium
MESSIAEN Les Anges, from La Nativité du Seigneur
LAURIDSEN O magnum mysterium
MESSIAEN Transports de joie, from L’Ascension
BAINTON And I Saw a New Heaven
Damian BARBELER (music) & Judith Nangala CRISPIN (poem) Charlotte (2023)*
DURUFLÉ Requiem, Op. 9
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Program 2: Sydney (City Recital Hall), Melbourne (Hamer Hall & Melbourne Recital Centre) Canberra (Llewellyn Hall)
GABRIELI O magnum mysterium
BULL Almighty God, which by the leading of a star
TALLIS Videte miraculum
GRANDI Hodie nobis de caelo
DURUFLÉ Four Motets on Gregorian Themes
Damian BARBELER (music) & Judith Nangala CRISPIN (poem) Charlotte (2023)*
LAURIDSEN O magnum mysterium
Instrumental version – arranged by Owen Elsley for winds and brass.
STRAVINSKYMass
WEIR Vertue
*World premiere performances. Commissioned for Musica Viva Australia by Richard Wilkins.
Dr David Larkin
David Larkin is a senior lecturer in musicology at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, specialising in nineteenth-century music. He joined the University of Sydney in 2010, after two years as a postdoctoral research fellow attached to the School of Music, University College Dublin sponsored by the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences.
His music education began at the Royal Irish Academy of Music in Dublin, where he studied piano, violin and organ. He graduated from University College Dublin in 1999 with a first-class honours B.Mus degree, and in 2002 was awarded the M.Litt degree with distinction for a thesis exploring the musical and personal connections between Liszt and Wagner. In 2007, he gained his PhD from the University of Cambridge for a dissertation entitled ‘Reshaping the Liszt-Wagner Legacy: Intertextual Dynamics in Strauss’s Tone Poems.’