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Alexander Lee (1802-1851), Thomas Haynes Bayly (words): Come where the aspens quiver]; Koen van Stade (tenor), Neal Peres Da Costa (pianoforte); Elizabeth Bay House, Sydney, 27 February 2022
Peres Da Costa, Neal; van Stade, Koen; Stephens, Matthew; Skinner, GraemePublished 2022-08-12This theatre song, with its chivalric evocations of troubadors and guitars, was first popularised by a star theatrical singer in 1820s London, Mrs (Harriet) Waylett. A decade later, in Sydney, the song was still being sung ...Open AccessAudiovisual -
Concert, From the Sydney Amateur Concerts 1826, SCM Early Music Ensemble, Neal Peres Da Costa (director), Sydney Conservatorium of Music, 27 May 2021
Peres Da Costa, Neal; Troy, Jakelin; Harris, Amanda; Martin, Toby; Skinner, Graeme; Tobin, JacintaPublished 2022-06-09This is a live audio-visual recording of a public concert that recreated a unique colonial concert experience. The featured musical works are drawn from the programs of the first ever series of public concerts held in ...Open AccessAudiovisual -
Concert, ‘On the Plains of Emu’ - Settler Art Music in Early NSW, Elizabeth Bay House, Sydney, 27 February 2022; presented by Sydney Living Museums and the Hearing the Music of Early NSW 1788-1860 project; Koen van Stade (tenor); Neal Peres Da Costa (pianoforte), Annie Gard (violin), Daniel Yeadon (violoncello) – on historically appropriate instruments
Peres Da Costa, Neal; Skinner, Graeme; Stephens, Matthew; Gard, Annie; Yeadon, Daniel; van Stade, KoenPublished 2022This selection recreates a typical household entertainment of songs, dances, and piano music, as might have been ‘got up’ by musical members and guests of wealthier ‘gentry’ and merchant families in 1830s NSW. All of the ...Open AccessAudiovisual -
Eliza Hamilton Dunlop (c.1796-1880), words: The Aboriginal mother [Oh! hush thee - hush my baby] (Tune: ’Twas when the seas were roaring, G. F. Handel) (Sydney, 1838); first modern performance; Koen van Stade (tenor), Neal Peres Da Costa (pianoforte); Elizabeth Bay House, Sydney, 27 February 2022
Peres Da Costa, Neal; van Stade, Koen; Stephens, Matthew; Skinner, GraemePublished 2022-08-12The Irish poet Eliza Hamilton Dunlop arrived in NSW with her family in January 1838, and over the next two years her series of eight ‘Songs of exile’ were successively published in Sydney newspapers. The most famous of ...Open AccessAudiovisual -
Eliza Hamilton Dunlop (c.1796-1880), words: Your Eyes Have the Twin-Star's Light (Tune: The Foggy Dew) (Sydney, 1839); first modern performance; Koen van Stade (tenor), Neal Peres Da Costa (pianoforte); Elizabeth Bay House, Sydney, 27 February 2022
Peres Da Costa, Neal; van Stade, Koen; Stephens, Matthew; Skinner, GraemePublished 2022-08-12The Irish poet Eliza Hamilton Dunlop arrived in NSW with her family in January 1838, and over the next two years her series of eight ‘Songs of exile’ were successively published in Sydney newspapers. The most famous of ...Open AccessAudiovisual -
Henri Herz (1803-1838): Variations brillantes sur un thème favori de l'opéra de Zampa [by Hérold]; Neal Peres Da Costa (pianoforte); Elizabeth Bay House, Sydney, 27 February 2022
Peres Da Costa, Neal; Stephens, Matthew; Skinner, GraemePublished 2022-08-12The French virtuoso pianist and composer Henri Herz was not only a star in Dublin and London, but was also well-known in 1830s Sydney, where pianos he had specially selected in London and Paris were exported to NSW and ...Open AccessAudiovisual -
Henry Rowley Bishop (1787-1856): Overture to Guy Mannering (arr. for pianoforte trio); Neal Peres Da Costa (pianoforte), Annie Gard (violin), Daniel Yeadon (violoncello); Elizabeth Bay House, Sydney, 27 February 2022
Peres Da Costa, Neal; Yeadon, Daniel; Gard, Annie; Stephens, Matthew; Skinner, GraemePublished 2022-08-12Following quickly on its first publication, Walter Scott’s 1815 novel ‘Guy Mannering’ was adapted for the lyric stage as an opera produced in London the following year, with a score ‘composed, selected, and arranged’ by ...Open AccessAudiovisual -
John Barnett (1802-1890), Harry Stoe van Dyk (words): The light guitar [Oh! leave the gay and festive scenes]; Koen van Stade (tenor), Neal Peres Da Costa (pianoforte); Elizabeth Bay House, Sydney, 27 February 2022
Peres Da Costa, Neal; van Stade, Koen; Stephens, Matthew; Skinner, GraemePublished 2022-08-12This theatre song, with its chivalric evocations of troubadors and guitars, was first popularised by a star theatrical singer in 1820s London, Madame (Lucia) Vestris. A decade later, in Sydney, the song was still being ...Open AccessAudiovisual -
M, of Anambaba [John McGarvie] (1829): The exile of Erin on the Plains of Emu [O! Farewell my country - my kindred - my lover] (Tune: The exile of Erin); Koen van Stade (tenor), Neal Peres Da Costa (pianoforte); Elizabeth Bay House, Sydney, 27 February 2022
Peres Da Costa, Neal; van Stade, Koen; Stephens, Matthew; Skinner, GraemePublished 2022-08-12This lovely song, published in the ‘Sydney Gazette’ in 1829, is a parody of the Irish nationalist song, ‘Erin go Bragh’ (‘The exile of erin’), to be sung to its tune. It ventriloquises the laments of a colonial exile - a ...Open AccessAudiovisual -
Rodolphe Kreutzer (1766-1831): Overture to Lodoiska (arr. for pianoforte trio); Neal Peres Da Costa (pianoforte), Annie Gard (violin), Daniel Yeadon (violoncello); Elizabeth Bay House, Sydney, 27 February 2022
Peres Da Costa, Neal; Yeadon, Daniel; Stephens, Matthew; Skinner, Graeme; Gard, AnniePublished 2022-08-10The English comic opera Lodoiska, a pasticcio (or compilation) from several continental operas of the same name, was first performed in London in 1794, and its overture, drawn from Kreuzter’s 1791 Paris Lodoiska, remained ...Open AccessAudiovisual -
Toward a general history of Australian musical composition: first national music, 1788-c.1860
Skinner, GraemePublished 2011-04-14This study is a first attempt at a history of musical composition in early colonial Australia. It demonstrates that the existing general literature gives an inadequate account of the role of composers, and the function and ...Open AccessThesis -
William Ellard (d. c. 1838/39): The much admired Australian quadrilles (Dublin and Sydney, 1835) (‘Dedicated by permission to Miss Hely of Engehurst’) [1] La Sydney; [2] La Wooloomooloo [sic]; [3] La Illawarra; [4] La Bong-Bong; [5] La Engehurst; Neal Peres Da Costa (pianoforte), Annie Gard (violin), Daniel Yeadon (violoncello); Elizabeth Bay House, Sydney, 27 February 2022
Peres Da Costa, Neal; Yeadon, Daniel; Gard, Annie; Stephens, Matthew; Skinner, GraemePublished 2022-08-12Dublin-born Francis Ellard, Sydney’s earliest specialist music publisher, advertised his first sheet music titles late in 1835. Ellard engraved all of his later sheet music himself and had it printed here in Sydney, but ...Open AccessAudiovisual -
William Joseph Cavendish (1789-1839); Fairy quadrilles and waltzes (Sydney, 1833); first modern performance; Neal Peres Da Costa (pianoforte), Annie Gard (violin), Daniel Yeadon (violoncello); Elizabeth Bay House, Sydney, 27 February 2022
Peres Da Costa, Neal; Yeadon, Daniel; Gard, Annie; Stephens, Matthew; Skinner, GraemePublished 2022-08-12Movements: [1] Pantalon (Radoma); [2] L’Été (Betanimena); [3] Poule (Kurry Jong); [4] Pastourelle (Woo-loo-moo-loo) [sic]; [5] Finale (Matitanana); [6] Waltz No. 1; [7] Waltz No. 2. Until he tragically drowned in Sydney ...Open AccessAudiovisual -
William Vincent Wallace (1812-1863), Robert Stewart (words): Echo’s song [Oh! I am Echo, Queen of sound] (Sydney, 1837); first modern performance; Koen van Stade (tenor), Neal Peres Da Costa (pianoforte); Elizabeth Bay House, Sydney, 27 February 2022
Peres Da Costa, Neal; van Stade, Koen; Stephens, Matthew; Skinner, GraemePublished 2022-08-12For two years from early 1836 to early 1838, Sydney was home to the young Irish violinist, pianist and composer William Vincent Wallace. The musical offspring of leading local families lined up for the honour of receiving ...Open AccessAudiovisual
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