Dangerous liaisons investigated by New Zealand String Quartet in restored St...
New Zealand String Quartet (Helene Pohl and Monique Lapins violins; Gillian Ansell, viola; Rolf Gjelsten, cello) Beethoven: String Quartet no.1 in F, Op.18 no.1 Bartók: String Quartet no.1 in A minor,...
View ArticleNew Zealand Youth Choir delivers excellent concert, though absence of a major...
Anthems, spirituals and songs New Zealand Youth Choir, conducted by David Squire and Michael Stewart; soloists and narrators from the choir Sacred Heart Cathedral Sunday, 10 September 2017, 4pm The...
View ArticleUniversity cellists bring ensemble to St Andrew’s lunchtime concert series
New Zealand School of Music Celli Samuel Berkahn, Alex Hoare, Emily Peterson, Toby Pringle, Lavinnia Rae, Rebecca Warnes, Olivia Wilding, Inbal Megiddo (cellos) Bach: Suite no.6 in D, Prelude Albéniz:...
View ArticleOutstanding concert for peace, of Renaissance music, plus Arvo Pärt, plus...
The Tudor Consort, conducted by Michael Stewart, with Fiona McCabe and Catherine Norton (piano duet in Pacifc), Tom Chatterton (organ, The Beatitudes) ‘Dona nobis pacem’ Gesualdo: Da pacem Domine...
View ArticleAt St Mary’s, Karori: viola and organ music drawn from Bach, Elgar and an...
Karori Classics Christiaan van der Zee (viola), Douglas Mews (organ) Bach: Sonata for viola da gamba and harpsichord in G major, BWV 1027 Tenor aria from Cantata no. 5: ‘Ergiesse dich reichlich’...
View ArticlePremiere at Waikanae of composition by pianist Andrew Leathwick
Waikanae Music Society Wilma and Friends (Wilma Smith, violin; Caroline Herbert, viola; Alexandra Partridge, cello; Andrew Leathwick, piano) Beethoven: Piano Quartet in Eb, Op.16 Andrew Leathwick:...
View ArticleMuch attractive, well performed music from the Bach Choir
Mozart, Brahms, Bruckner, and Rheinberger Bach Choir of Wellington, conducted by Maaike Christie-Beekman, with Douglas Mews (organ and piano), Emma Sayers (piano), Nicola Holt (soprano), Jamie Young...
View ArticleA fine solo cello recital at St Andrew’s lunchtime concert
Inbal Megiddo, solo cello recital Bach: Cello Suite no.2 in D minor, BWV 1008 Pigovat: Nigun Hans Bottermund and Janos Starker: Paganini Variations St. Andrew’s on The Terrace Wednesday, 4 October...
View ArticleExcellent NZSO concert – Berlioz, Elgar and Tchaikovsky – draws disappointing...
Travels in Italy Berlioz: Harold in Italy Elgar: In the South (‘Alassio’) Tchaikovsky: Francesca da Rimini (Symphonic fantasia after Dante) New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, conducted by James Judd, with...
View ArticleJonathan Berkahn and friends with formal and informal music for lunchtime
Town and Country: folk tunes plain and fancy Items by Hummel, Dussek, Lyons, O’Carolan, Matteis, Alexander, Brahms, O’Brien, Wells, Griffiths and Berkahn Jonathan Berkahn and friends St. Andrew’s on...
View ArticleExcellent concert, with the old and the new, from NZTrio in a different City...
‘Soar’: NZ Trio (Manu Berkeljon, violin; Ashley Brown, cello; Sarah Watkins, piano) John Ireland: Phantasie Trio in A minor Anthony Ritchie: Childhood Dorothy Ker: Onaia Schubert: Piano Trio no.2 in E...
View ArticleA somewhat impromptu lunchtime recital proves a delight at St Andrew’s
Fleur Jackson (violin), Olivia Wilding (cello), Lucy Liu (viola), Ingrid Schoenfeld and Catherine Norton (piano) Beethoven: Piano sonata in C minor, Op 30/2, movements I and 3 Schumann: Cello Concerto...
View ArticleNZSO and Orchestra Wellington string players in Baroque chamber music at St...
Relishing the Baroque Hye-Won Kim, violin; Sophia Acheson, violin/viola (2,3 and 4); Ken Ichinose, cello; Joan Perarnau Garriga, double bass (2,4); Kristina Zuelicke, harpsichord (1,2 and 4) Corelli:...
View ArticleWellington Young Voices weave their own magic at Old St.Paul’s
‘Magic in the air’ Wellington Young Voices, conducted by Christine Argyle and Anya Nazaruk, accompanied by Rosemary Russell Old St. Paul’s, Thorndon Sunday 3 December 2017, at 4pm About 30 young...
View ArticleMasses in times of war celebrated by the Bach Choir under Ivan Patterson
Kodály: Missa Brevis Haydn: Mass in D minor, H 22/11 (Missa in Angustiis or ‘Nelson’ Mass) Bach Choir of Wellington, conducted by Ivan Patterson, with Douglas Mews (organ), Rowena Simpson (soprano),...
View ArticleOrganist Bruce Cash momentous performance of Messiaen’s La Nativité du Seigneur
Rejoice! Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992): La Nativité du Seigneur (1935) Bruce Cash (organ) St. Mary of the Angels Church Sunday, 17 December, 3pm To hear a splendid work of meditation for organ on the...
View ArticleLegal choristers and instrumentalists in anniversary class action supporting...
Crown Law Presents: Counsel in Concert: Musical Anniversaries; in aid of the Child Cancer Foundation Items by Monteverdi, Telemann, Haydn, Gershwin, The Beatles Lawyers’ choir and orchestra, with...
View ArticleNZSO opens the musical year with Bach, Rameau and Locatelli
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, led by Vesa-Matti Leppänen Bach: Brandenburg Concertos nos. 1 in F (BWV 1046) and 3 in G (BWV 1048); Air from the Suite no.3 in D, BWV 1068 Locatelli: Concerto in E...
View ArticleAtoll Records releases CD conspectus of Ken Wilson: Music For Winds
Music for Winds by Ken Wilson Atoll Records / CD Concerto for Clarinet and String Orchestra (1963) Patrick Barry and the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra strings, conductor Hamish McKeich Wind Quintet...
View ArticleMost accomplished performances of piano trios by Psathas and Brahms
Glow-worm Trio Laura Barton, violin; Daniel Smith, cello; Liam Wooding, piano John Psathas: Island Songs Brahms: Piano Trio No 2 in C, Op 87 St. Andrew’s on The Terrace Wednesday, 21 February 2018,...
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