Latvian Radio Choir & Genevieve Lacey
Musica Viva Australia
- Classical Music
Booking fees:
A booking fee of $8.50 per transaction applies
A booking fee of $8.50 per transaction applies
This performance is currently available as part of a Musica Viva Australia 2026 Season Subscription. Single tickets 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
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- 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.
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- Latvian Radio Choir
- Kaspars Putniņš
- Artistic Director
- Genevieve Lacey
- Recorders
