Concert Series
Brisbane’s inner-city Cathedral of St Stephen hosts a well-respected series of concerts throughout the year. These are usually held on Sunday afternoons, and present a variety of choral and instrumental concerts performed by artists who enjoy international, national and local recognition.
The concerts are budget-priced, and refreshments are available at intermission. Cathedral parking can be accessed from Charlotte Street entrance. Disabled access is also available. 2024 Concerts Lenten Series : Thursdays 12noon -12:25pm before Mass. A time for reflection through Lent until Easter
D'Arne Sleeman and Ireni Utley will sing Pergolesi's Stabat Mater over two weeks, from "Stabat Mater dolorosa" to "Vidit suum dulcem natum" in February, and "Eja mater fons amoris" to "Quando corpus morietur" in March. Accompanied on organ by Dominic Perissinotto.
Franz Liszt (1811-1886) – Variations on Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen (Weeping, crying, sorrow, sighing) S179 The Variations on "Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen" is a Bach-inspired work. Liszt took the chromatic bass line from the opening chorus of Bach's Cantata No. 12 and the very similar part from the Crucifixus of Bach's B-minor Mass as the basis for the work, which began life as a relatively simple prelude for solo piano in 1859. The text for the chorus begins "Tears, complaints, care, fear, anguish, and stress are the bitter bread of Christians," and when Liszt's daughter Blondine died in 1862 he expanded the prelude into an extended elegy, a set of 30 variations using the sinking chromatic line much as Bach would have in a passacaglia, a Baroque form of continuous variation. Liszt transcribed the work for organ in 1863, after he had moved to Rome. He incorporates some of the soprano part of Bach's chorus in a syncopated form in the sixth variation, after which he begins a very free elaboration, leading to a central section of more extroverted technical display. After the demonstrative 30th variation, a wayward recitative ushers in the chorale tune from the final movement of the cantata, "Was Gott tut, das ist wohl getan" (What God Does, Is Done Well). So, like the cantata, Liszt's variations reverse the sighing sorrow of its beginning, ending with hopeful affirmation.
Coming up:
Advent Series: Sundays 3pm in December to celebrate with Advent Season
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