A Baroque Christmas New Zealand tour.
Following its successful tour in 2015, the University of Melbourne Choir of Newman College once again joins forces with the celebrated New Zealand early music ensemble, The Affetto Players, to perform sprightly carols and sumptuous motets from the Baroque era.
Celebrate the joy of Christmas as one of Australia's leading
chamber choirs and The Affetto Players perform a sparkling array of music by JS Bach, Handel and Praetorius.
Highlights include the voice of Mezzo-soprano Stefanie Dingnis echoed by a trumpet in Handel's Eternal source of light divine and Carols such as Joy to the World and In dulci jubilo in their original Baroque form.
Peter Reid will be playing the evocative pūtātara, (a Māori conch) to accompany a procession from The Play of Herod.
Johann Sebastian Bach's motets Kommnf, Jesu komm for a double choir will be one of the pinnacles of the solo choir repertoire.
