Allegro Largo Scherzo Finale

I managed to mix up the programmes for the final NZSO tour, which meant that I missed the concert with the premiere of Leif Segerstam’s Symphony No. 191 Presumably it will turn up on RNZ Concert sometime, but right now I can only comment on the attention that the concert has received in the Dominion [...]

1 November at Wesley Church Traditional, arranged by Carol Shortis: Polskie Kwiaty Simon Eastwood: Jericho: Walls Will Fall Henryk Górecki: Three Pieces in Olden Style Witold Lutoslawski: Melodie Ludowe Krzysztof Penderecki: Allegro Moderato from Sextet Henryk Górecki: Totus Tuus Karol Szymanowski: Rymy Dzieciece  – Children’s Rhymes Op. 49 Karlo Margetic: Hommage  à W.L. Carol Shortis: [...]

Well, my hopes/predictions really could not have been further off the mark. The elephant in the room is the absence of any opera (unless you count Simon O’Neill’s Wagner recital). There is a reasonable amount of chamber music on hand – almost all on the weekend of the 6th-7th of March’, but nothing really outside [...]