NZSM classical voice students show their talents at St Andrew’s
NZSM Classical Voice Students With Amber Rainey, piano accompanist St. Andrew’s on The Terrace Thursday, 9 August 2018, 12.15 pm A Thursday lunchtime concert apparently does not have the appeal of the...
View ArticleSpringtime winds at St Andrew’s from the NZSM
New Zealand School of Music Woodwind Students St. Andrew’s on The Terrace Wednesday, 26 September 2018 This further recital by music students from the New Zealand School of Music at Victoria University...
View ArticleAroha Quartet with animated, robust, delightful evening concert at St Andrew’s
Aroha String Quartet (Haihong Liu and Anne Loeser, violins; Zhongxian Jin, viola; Robert Ibell, cello) ‘Light and Dark’ Haydn: String Quartet in C, Op.76 no. 3 ‘Emperor’ Ross Carey: Elegy (Toccatina)...
View ArticleViolin and piano competition winners show robust musical and technical gifts...
Waikanae Music Society Ioana Cristina Goicea (violin) and Andrey Gugnin (piano) Schubert: Rondo in B minor, D.895, “Rondo Brilliant” Enescu: Sonata no.3 “In Romanian folk Style” Brahms: Sonata no.3 in...
View ArticleNZSM cellists under Inbal Megiddo play cello favourites, some rare, some in...
New Zealand School of Music Cellos, led by Inbal Megiddo Music by Mozart, Grűzmacher, Bach, Vivaldi, Brubeck, Gershwin, Joplin St. Andrew’s on The Terrace Wednesday, 3 October 2018, 12:15 pm lnbal...
View ArticleDiverting, varied, guitar recital by NZSM students
New Zealand School of Music Guitars Music by Brahms, de Falla, Ravel, Philip Houghton, Barrios St. Andrew’s on The Terrace Wednesday, 10 October 2018, 12.15pm It was not easy to understand what were...
View ArticleHeroic welcome for the new digital organ in St Paul’s Cathedral
Cathedral Festival for the digital organ Joseph Nolan, organ Bach,: Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor, BWV 582 Franck: Prelude, Fugue and Variation Marcel Dupré: Variations sur un Noël Widor: Symphonie...
View ArticleChoral concert to celebrate new digital organ at Cathedral of Saint Paul
Organ Festival: Choral anthems Choirs and Choristers of Wellington Cathedral of St. Paul, Choir of the Metropolitan Cathedral of the Sacred Heart (Directors Michael Stewart and Michael Fletcher,...
View ArticleEdo de Waart reaffirms his comprehensive Mahlerian authority and insight with...
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, conductor Edo de Waart Mahler: Symphony no.7 in B minor, Op.36 Michael Fowler Centre Friday, 9 November 2018, 6:30 pm The concert was one of Edo de Waart’s ‘Masterworks’...
View ArticleFirst-class performance of a Brahms masterpiece by Vivanti String Sextet
Vivanti String Sextet: Yuka Eguchi, Malavika Gopal (violins), Victoria Jaenecke, Martin Jaenecke (violas), Ken Ichinose, Rowan Prior (cellos) Brahms: String Sextet no.1 in B flat, Op.18 St. Andrew’s...
View ArticleNZSO in splendid Beethoven: the first and the last, under Edo de Waart
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra (led by Donald Armstrong). conductor Edo de Waart Beethoven: Symphony no.1 in C major, Op.21 Symphony no 9 in D minor, Op.15 Madeleine Pierard (soprano), Kristin...
View ArticleBaroque music, rare and familiar, in a happy St Andrew’s concert
HyeWon Kim (violin), Jane Young (cello), Kris Zuelicke (harpsichord) Leclair: Sonata in C, Op.2 no.3 Cervetto, Giacomo Basevi: Sonata in F, Op.2 no.9 J.S. Bach: Italian Concerto, BWV 971 (1st movement)...
View ArticleWellington Chamber Orchestra with rewarding and interesting music from...
Wellington Chamber Orchestra conducted by Ian Ridgewell, with Matthew Stein (trumpet) Gerald Finzi: The Fall of the Leaf, Op.20 Alexander Arutiunian: Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra Charles Villiers...
View ArticleFrom The Night Watch –“Love Me Tender”– a Baroque-style celebration of love’s...
Vivaldi: Flute Concerto in G minor “La Notte”, RV439 Handel: Duet: Che vai pensando folle pensier, HWV184 Concerto Grosso in D minor, Op.3 .no.5 HWV316 JS Bach: Cantata: Gottes Zeit ist die...
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