Chamber Music NZ: The Song Company

The Song Company: The Seasons & Sweet Dreams.

Singing together a cappella since 1984, the six members of the Song Company, and their director Roland Peelman, give around 130 concerts a year around the world. They wholeheartedly embrace music from all continents and eras, and they work with artists of the highest calibre to create a distinctive and dynamic new voice, relevant to audiences of today and tomorrow.

Regular international tours to Europe and Asia have taken The Song Company to some of the most prestigious festivals and venues around the world such as the Dubrovnik Festival, MDR Sommerfest, Festival of Flanders and the Dresdner Festspiele. Their concerts have prompted great critical acclaim.

The Seasons is a programme that leaps into spring, revels in the abundance of summer, grieves through the losses of autumn and faces winter head on. Works from composers as diverse as Heinrich Schütz and Paul McCartney reflect on our relationships with the eternal influences of the seasons.

Sweet Dreams takes us into the world of fantasy in an exploration of the subconscious mind where not only are our deepest desires and phobias hidden, but also our wildest, sweetest dreams. Madrigals and songs from Medieval and Renaissance times lead into modern-day musings, including works by Jack Body, who will be composer-in-residence with the Song Company in early 2010.

Sweet Dreams: including works by Wilbye, Weelkes, Gesualdo, Monteverdi, Warlock, Peter Sculthorpe, Jack Body

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