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This performance is currently available as part of a Musica Vivia Australia 2026 Season Subscription. Single tickets go on sale at 9AM AEST on Wednesday 15 October.


The Latvian Radio Choir spreads its wings and flies 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 Hollis Taylor’s Bird on Byrd. Then experience an uplifting new commission from iconic Latvian composer, Ērik Ešenvalds, setting the words of multi-award-winning Australian author and poet, Alexis Wright.

[Lacey plays with] wit, sensuality, and mind-boggling flamboyance The Guardian

This chorus’s expertise in music pushes voices to extremes, from ethereal high tones to uncannily sustained bass drones The New York Times

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

  • 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
    Pēteris Vasks
    Our Mothers' Names
    Ēriks Ešenvalds
    Ceremony of Swans (New commission)

    Special thanks to Ensemble Patrons Ian Dickson AM & Reg Holloway for their generous support of this tour.

  • Latvian Radio Choir
    Kaspars Putniņš
    Artistic Director
    Genevieve Lacey
    Recorders