Nikau Ensemble at St Mark’s Lower Hutt with Mozart and Dohnányi
Nikau Chamber Ensemble (Konstanze Artmann, violin; Karen Batten, flute; Christiaan van der Zee, viola; Margaret Guldborg, cello) Mozart: Quartet in C, KA [i.e. Appendix to Koechel’s catalogue] 171...
View ArticleMonumental complete organ works of Bach continue from organists of St Paul’s...
The Bach Project: Michael Stewart and Richard Apperley play the complete organ works of J.S. Bach throughout 2015 Michael Stewart, organ Wellington Cathedral of St. Paul Friday, 23 October 2015,...
View ArticleSistema Hutt Valley’s Arohanui Strings and related ensembles offer wonderful...
Arohanui Strings – Sistema Hutt Valley Music by Michael McLean, Mozart, Bartók, Joplin, Warlock, Moe Ruka, Beethoven and trad. St. Mark’s Church, Lower Hutt Wednesday, 28 October 2015, 12.15pm To...
View ArticleAudience rapture with splendid performance from Tudor Consort
The Tudor Consort conducted by Michael Stewart Tomás Luis de Victoria: Officium Defunctorum Alonso Lobo: Motet: Versa est in luctum Sacred Heart Cathedral Saturday, 31 October 2015, 7.30pm The Tudor...
View ArticleRites of Spring – from the sublime to “cor blimey” in all respects
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra Rite of Spring Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending Walton: Cello Concerto Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Jaime Martín, with...
View ArticleFinal concert in marathon Bach organ project at Cathedral of Saint Paul
The Bach Project: Michael Stewart and Richard Apperley play the complete organ works of J.S. Bach throughout 2015; final concert Michael Stewart, Richard Apperley, organ Wellington Cathedral of St....
View ArticlePalliser Viols and Pepe Becker enjoyed at St Andrew’s lunchtime concert
‘Curious Fancies’; pieces for viols, and viols and voices by Pierre Phalèse, Orlando Gibbons, Alfonso Ferrabosco, Tobias Hume, Thomas Tallis, William Byrd, John Jenkins Palliser Viols (Lisa Beech,...
View ArticleFine a cappella singing from Supertonic Choir and Tawa College Blue Notes
Christmas at the Gallery Music by Mendelssohn, Whitacre, Pompallier, Stanford, David Hamilton, Rheinberger, Childs, Swider, Britten, Frank Martin, and well-known carols Supertonic Choir and Tawa...
View ArticleHappy Christmas concert from Nota Bene at The Prefab in Jessie Street
Nota Bene Chamber Choir, conducted by Mark Dorrell Prefab Hall, Jessie Street Thursday, 17 June 2013, 6.30pm From the moment I arrived in a packed Prefab Hall, standing room only, and found the last...
View ArticleInbal Megiddo and friends stage fifth Cellophonia at School of Music
New Zealand School of Music Te Koki Cellophonia Concert David Popper: Requiem Handel, arr. Claude Kenneson: Adagio and Allegro from Organ Concerto in G minor, Op.4 no 3 Elgar: Salut d’amour, Op.12,...
View ArticleEnterprising concert of New Zealand music at St Andrew’s lunchtime
New Zealand Music for Woodwind: Ken Wilson, John Elmsly, Douglas Lilburn, Natalie Hunt, Ben Hoadley, Jeremy Mayall, Anthony Ritchie Peter Dykes (oboe), Deborah Rawson and Peter Scholes (clarinets),...
View ArticlePopular trios from NZSO players at St Andrew’s at lunchtime
Haydn: Piano Trio in G, Hob.XV:25 “Gypsy” Mendelssohn: Piano Trio in D minor, Op.49 Koru Trio: Anne Loeser (violin), Sally Isaac (cello), Rachel Thomson (piano) St. Andrew’s on The Terrace Wednesday,...
View ArticleA richly-informed austerity – music by Heinrich Schütz, from the Tudor Consort
Heinrich Schütz: Musikalische Exequien (Funeral Music), SWV 279-281 Matthäus-Passion (St. Matthew Passion), SWV 479 The Tudor Consort, conducted by Peter Walls Soloists: John Beaglehole (tenor), Simon...
View ArticleBreaking the song recital drought with a fine, adventurous recital of...
Songbook: ‘Stormy Weather’; songs of the wind Songs by Wolf, Massenet, Poulenc, Vaughan Williams, George Crumb, Lilburn, Copland, Gurney, Brahms, Rimsky-Korsakov, Frank Bridge, Debussy, Schubert, R....
View ArticleSuperb song tribute for the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, from...
“The Cloud Capp’d Towers”: Shakespeare in the Land of the Long White Cloud Nota Bene, directed by Peter Walls, with Nigel Collins (the Bard), Fiona McCabe (piano) and Joel Baldwin (guitar); vocal...
View ArticleAroha Quartet revisits Waikanae Music Society with polished, well-balanced...
Waikanae Music Society Aroha String Quartet (Haihong Liu and Simeon Broom, violins; Zhongxian Jin, viola; Robert Ibell, cello) Haydn: String Quartet in G, Op.33 no.5 Piazzolla: Tango ballet suite...
View ArticleFull house for Edo de Waart and the NZSO in magnificent Eroica and an epic...
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra Edo de Waart’s Masterworks: Brahms & Beethoven Lilburn: Festival Overture Brahms: Concerto for violin and cello in A minor, Op.102 (Double Concerto) Beethoven:...
View ArticleNew Zealand String Quartet, minus 2nd violin, avoids any string quartets in...
New Zealand String Quartet (Helene Pohl, violin; Gillian Ansell, viola; Rolf Gjelsten, cello) with Jian Liu (piano) Schubert: String trio in B flat, D.471 Beethoven: Cello sonata no.4 in C, Op.102/1...
View ArticleSecondary Students’ Choir celebrates thirtieth anniversary: stylistic and...
New Zealand Secondary Students’ Choir in Concert directed by Andrew Withington, accompanied by Brent Stewart, with Rebecca Ryan (soprano) Sacred Heart Cathedral Friday, 22 April 2016, 7.30pm As I said...
View ArticleA thousand years of church music in well chosen programme for voice and organ
‘Today the Lonely Winds’: Sacred music for organ and voice (St. James’s Church and Wellington Organists Association) Anonymous items; pieces by Frescobaldi, Monteverdi, St. Bernard of Claivaux, Jacob...
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