Music Festival launches to packed houses: Photos

By Bronislaw Sozanski
Updated January 16 2017 - 12:57pm, first published 10:14am

The opening weekend of the Organs of the Ballarat Goldfields Festival has witnessed the performance of outstanding music. With some emphasis on improvisation and spontaneity a fresh approach was achieved with the more familiar music while the unfamiliar was a joyous discovery. Friday night’s  concert “Homage to Rameau”, at St. Patrick’s Cathedral, brought together some of the finest early music specialists from Melbourne, excellent vocal soloists and the Newman College Choir, directed by Garry Ekkel. The instrumentalists delivered Rameau’s colourful orchestration and rhythmic variety with a natural ease while the singers clearly understood the dramatic narrative of the excerpts from his opera “Hippolyte et Aricie”.

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