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2025 Concerts

Concerts: Events

Coming Up

Saturday 7th June 2025, 2.30pm 

Sunday 8th June 2025, 7.30pm 

St Ambrose Church, Woodend

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Ensemble Gombert & Accademia Arcadia, directed by John O’Donnell

With soloists Elspeth Bawden, Christopher Roache, Christopher Watson & Jeremy Kleeman

In Purcell’s day, St Cecilia, patron saint of music, was celebrated in London with a new work commissioned annually. Perhaps the greatest of all these works is Purcell’s 1692 setting of poetry by Nicholas Brady commencing Hail! Bright Cecilia, and featuring the superb alto solo ’Tis Nature’s Voice, sung in the original performance by Purcell himself.

 

Hail! Bright Cecilia (Z.328), also known as Ode to St. Cecilia, was composed by Henry Purcell to a text by the Irishman Nicholas Brady in 1692 in honour of the feast day of Saint Cecilia, patron saint of musicians.

Annual celebrations of this saint's feast day (22 November) began in 1683, organised by the Musical Society of London, a group of musicians and music lovers. Welcome to all the pleasures (Z.339) was written by Purcell in 1683 and he went on to write other Cecilian pieces of which Hail! Bright Cecilia remains the best known. The first performance on 22 September 1692 at Stationers' Hall was a great success, and received an encore.

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ENSEMBLE GOMBERT HAS BEEN PERFORMING FOR OVER 30 YEARS AS OF 2020.

We acknowledge that we perform on the land of the Traditional Owners of country throughout Australia and recognise their continuing connection to land, waters and culture. We pay our respects to their Elders past, present and emerging.

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Ensemble Gombert is an association incorporated in the State of Victoria.
Registration No. A0031398G  |  ABN 25 668 952 613

Unit 409/1C, Michael St., Brunswick VIC 3056 Australia

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