Excerpt 1: Heinrich von Herzogenberg, from The Passion (1896)

Trials before Caiaphas and Pilate

The Astra Choir, soloists and chamber orchestra conducted by John McCaughey.

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For 30 years, the concerts of Astra Chamber Music Society have ranged around Melbourne’s architectural environment. Each concert has had a site-specific design that takes advantage of the marvellous visual qualities, spatial possibilities, and acoustic personality of each building. The music, in turn, contributes a new quality to the perception of the buildings, now experienced by audiences as a sounding space - an area where cultural issues from music’s history are traversed, and new ideas in Australian composition are explored.

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[Opera music plays]