Listen to the Heal You concert for Adelaide Festival broadcast live on ABC Classic
Conducted by Christie Anderson
Broadcast live on ABC Classic from Adelaide Town Hall on Thursday 13 March.
Presenter: Russell Torrence
Producer: Luke Altmann
Engineer: Tom Henry
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This recording will remain online on the ABC Classic website for 30 days.
Heal You is a transformative journey of healing, peace, and belonging.
Music has a profound ability to heal and restore, touching both the heart and mind in ways that transcend ordinary communication, and nothing expresses this more keenly than the human voice.
As part of our 2025 Adelaide Festival program, we articulate this healing with exquisite musical responses, from early 20th Century works; Josef Rheinberger’s Abendlied and Charles Villiers Stanford’s The Bluebird, and contemporary repertoire with prayers against violence, tyranny and homelessness, with Caroline Shaw’s and the swallow, Anne Cawrse’s Night/Light from the 2024 commission All Flesh is Fire, Anna Meredith’s Heal You and Jake Runestad’s Let my love be heard.
Also featuring music by Joanna Marsh, Ēriks Ešenvalds and Emeli Sandé.
Heal You Singers
SOPRANOS
Emma Borgas
Victoria Coxhill
Georgie Simmons
Imogen Tonkin
Brooke Window
ALTOS
Rachel Bruerville
Courtney Day
Sophie Schumacher
Emma Woehle
TENORS
Martin Penhale
Kit Tonkin
Rhys Williams
Graham Yuile
BASSES
Andrew Bettison
Jonathan Bligh
Aidan Foyel
Christopher Gann
Nikolai Leske
Program
and the swallow Caroline Shaw (b. 1982)
The Bluebird Charles Villiers Stanford (1852–1924)
Soloist: Brooke Window
Night/Light Anne Cawrse (b.1981)
Abendlied Josef Rheinberger (1839–1901)
Tuttarana Reena Esmail (b. 1983)
now I lay (with everywhere around) Joanna Marsh (b. 1970)
The Lightness of Being Sally Whitwell (b.1974)
Heal You Anna Meredith (b. 1978)
Only in Sleep Eriks Ēšenvalds (b. 1977)
Soloist: Emma Borgas
I Am The True Vine Arvo Pärt (b. 1935)
Peat Brown Hours Juliana Kay (b.1990)
Let My Love Be Heard Jake Runestadt (b. 1986)
Where I Sleep Emeli Sandé (b. 1987) & Shahid Khan (b.1981)
Arranged by Geoff Lawson
