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Overview
The Latvian Radio Choir spread their wings and fly with Australia’s own recorder queen, Genevieve Lacey. Join them as they look to the skies for dancing planets and soaring birds in the music of Pēteris Vasks. Get lost in the sheer beauty of Arvo Pärt’s Magnificat and listen to the world’s first singers in Jon Rose and Hollis Taylor’s Bird on Byrd. Then experience an uplifting new commission from iconic Latvian composer, Ēriks Ešenvalds, setting the words of multi-award-winning Australian author and poet, Alexis Wright.
“The girl thought that she could hear ghost music,
black swans whispering,
descending in never-ending ribbons,
gathering into flocks of thousands.”
Alexis Wright, The Swan Book
This event is part of Musica Viva Australia’s 2026 Season. View the full QPAC program here.
Watch Musica Viva Australia’s Trailer for their Latvian Radio Choir and Genevieve Lacey Tour below:
Program
Caroline Shaw And the Swallow
Van Eyck Engels Nachtegaeltje
Pärt Magnificat and Nunc dimittis
Mendelssohn Psalm XXII ‘Mein Gott, warum hast du mich verlassen’
Hollis Taylor and Jon Rose Bird on Byrd (New commission)
Palestrina Diminutions on Pulchra es anima mea
Vasks Our Mothers' Names
Ēriks Ešenvalds Ceremony of Swans (New commission)
Artists
- Latvian Radio Choir
- Artistic Director Kaspars Putniņš
- Recorders Genevieve Lacey
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