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Hearing the Music of Early NSW
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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
Published 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 -
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
Published 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 -
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
Published 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
Published 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 -
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
Published 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