Listen & tracks
5 of 21 tracks have a preview · 17 works
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1 The Battle of Jericho Moses Hogan
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2 Locus iste Anton Bruckner
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3 Abendlied Josef Rheinberger
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4 Music for the Royal Fireworks George Frideric Handel Menuets
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5 Water Music George Frideric Handel Air
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6 Lauda Jerusalem Claudio Monteverdi
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7 Beati quorum via Charles Villiers Stanford
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8 Valiant-for-Truth Ralph Vaughan Williams
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9 Nunc dimittis Gustav Holst
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10 Ave verum corpus Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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11 Ode to Joy Ludwig van Beethoven
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12 Kondalilla Stephen Leek
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13 The Quacks Malcolm Williamson
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14 O magnum mysterium Morten Lauridsen
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15 There is a balm in Gilead Moses Hogan
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16 Didn’t my Lord deliver Daniel Moses Hogan
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17 I want Jesus to walk with me Moses Hogan
This encore collection is a portrait of what an audience asks to hear again: brief, polished choral pieces chosen for colour, craft and immediate appeal rather than for a single large-scale work.
Artists
Australian Chamber Choir
choir
The Australian Chamber Choir was founded by Douglas Lawrence in July 2007.
Douglas Lawrence
director
Melbourne organist Douglas Lawrence is Director of Music at The Scots' Church and Teacher of the Organ at the University of Melbourne. He founded the Choir of Ormond College and directed it from 1982 to 2006.
Elizabeth Anderson
composer
Elizabeth Anderson has performed on eleven international concert tours to Europe, Japan and Singapore, and is a regular guest lecturer and performer at universities and music schools throughout Australia.
Ludwig van Beethoven
composer
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827) was a German composer and pianist whose music stands at the centre of the Western classical tradition, bridging the Classical and Romantic eras.
George Frideric Handel
composer
George Frideric Handel (1685–1759) was a German-born Baroque composer who settled in London and became a naturalised British subject. He is celebrated for his operas, English oratorios, organ concertos and orchestral works.
Claudio Monteverdi
composer
Claudio Monteverdi (1567–1643) was an Italian composer, choirmaster and string player, and a crucial figure between the Renaissance and Baroque. A pioneer of opera and of the expressive seconda pratica, he left madrigals, major sacred works and three surviving operas still central to the repertory.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
composer
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. He wrote over 600 works, many of them pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, piano, operatic and choral music, and remains among the most enduringly popular of classical composers.
Charles Villiers Stanford
composer
Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (1852–1924) was an Anglo-Irish composer, teacher and conductor of the late Romantic era. His choral music for the Anglican tradition remains the work for which he is best remembered.
Ralph Vaughan Williams
composer
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958) was an English composer of nine symphonies, operas, ballets, and a large body of choral and vocal music. Drawing on Tudor polyphony and English folk-song, he helped free British music from its nineteenth-century German models.
Anton Bruckner
composer
Moses Hogan
composer
Moses Hogan (1957–2003) was an American composer, arranger and conductor best known for his settings of African-American spirituals. His choral arrangements remain central to the concert repertoire.
Gustav Holst
composer
Gustav Holst’s music moves from the cosmic sweep of The Planets to spare, singing folk and Christmas settings that choirs still reach for. His arrangements of English song and carols carry a clear line and a quiet ceremonial glow.
Morten Lauridsen
composer
Morten Lauridsen is an American composer of choral music. His motets and vocal cycles, including O magnum mysterium and Sure on this Shining Night, are sung throughout the world.
Stephen Leek
composer
Stephen Leek writes choral music built for real voices in real rooms: liturgical settings with unexpected colour, carols, and pieces shaped by long work with youth, community and professional choirs across Australia and abroad.
Josef Rheinberger
composer
Malcolm Williamson
composer
Malcolm Williamson wrote music that absorbed serial technique, Messiaen, jazz and popular song, then settled into a fundamentally tonal and lyrical language. His catalogue runs from piano sonatas and concertos to hymns, cassations and large choral scores.
Digital booklet
Digital booklet Notes, texts and credits — read online or download the PDF Download the PDFPerformers
- Australian Chamber Choir · choir
- Douglas Lawrence · director
Technical credits
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Recording Engineer
Martin Wright
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Editing Engineer
Vaughan McAlley
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Mastering Engineer
Martin Wright
Details
- List price
- $25.00 AUD
- Release date
- 25 Sep 2026
- Genre
- Choral & Sacred
- Musical work copyright
- © 2026 Australian Chamber Choir
- Sound recording copyright
- ℗ 2026 Move Records
- Catalogue
- MCD 674
- EAN
- 8721554299567
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Keys to Heaven
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A Baroque Christmas
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Soul
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Bach Motets
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Magnificat
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