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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 -
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
Published 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 -
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 -
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 -
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
Published 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