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Do you enjoy unaccompanied choral music, beautifully sung and presented with style and a touch of wit?

Viva Voce is one of New Zealand's most acclaimed chamber choirs, and perhaps its most popular.

concerts.

  • timor et tremor
    Sunday 20 April 5pm. St Michael's Church. Beatrice Rd, Remuera

    timor et tremor No, not an earthquake in Indonesia, but nevertheless a topic so scary we've left its title in the original Latin. It's ... fear. (And trembling.) Fear of the known and the unknown. Of the hereafter. Of fear itself. Fortunately the relevant music's also rather beautiful, because it's not just about feeling the fear; it's also about facing and conquering it. We perform - in the tremendous acoustics of St Michael's - Bach's formidable eight-part motet Fnrchte dich nicht, and haunting works by Purcell, Lassus, Morley, Finzi, Tavener and Hamilton, while reprising for the first time in 13 years Allegri's awe-inspiring Miserere. A frightfully good concert.

  • love on the rocks
    Sunday 17 August 5pm. Auckland Town Hall. Concert Chamber

    Love on the Rocks We've done love before - who hasn't! - but usually in the context of people getting together ... the soppy, hopeful bit. And yet, just occasionally, its course doesn't run smooth; if love, as the song has it, is like a ship on the ocean, then sometimes we miss the lighthouse. Here, back home in the Concert Chamber, we'll be in lighter vein, singing a wide range of part-songs, madrigals, folk lyrics, swing standards and popular arrangements, all on the vexed subject of our fragile, vulnerable hearts ... and why perhaps we should just keep them on ice!.

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  • an early christmas
    Sunday 30 November 5pm. Auckland Town Hall. Great Hall

    Still quite a few shopping days till Christmas though most pieces in this concert were written long before the age of the mall. But while these mainly Baroque works are known for some reason as “early music”, they aren't too early to enchant with their candlelit beauty. So we will present a selection of uplifting and magical nativity music for choir and orchestra by the likes of J S Bach, Charpentier and Schntz, as well as Vaughan Williams' lovely Fantasia on Christmas Carols, featuring baritone soloist Teddy Tahu Rhodes - winner of the 1991 Mobil Song Quest and the choir's most famous singing ex-member. In the tradition then of our recent “Boy Wonder!” and “The Full Monte”, a concert to prepare you for the festive season ... nice and early.
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