Melbourne Bach Chamber Choir presents a luminescent program of the familiar and the new: an Australian Requiem in its first Melbourne performance, a Bach motet and a twentieth-century American classic.

The concert features JS Bach’s wonderful Jesu meine Freude, Anne Cawrse’s Requiem, with words of the traditional Latin mass interspersed with excerpts from national treasure Michael Leunig’s The Prayer Tree and Morten Lauridsen’s cycle of settings of texts that reference “Light”.