• Bedřich Smetana – Triumphal Symphony in E Major
  • Benjamin Britten – Gambling: 'Nights are days' - Parasites
  • Benjamin Britten – The Fall: 'You are tired from a long journey' - Tempter
  • Benjamin Britten – The Parasites: 'Welcome, welcome, stranger!'
  • Benjamin Britten – The Departure: 'Go, if you must go' - Servants

Nexus | Poles Apart – 10 March 2010

SMP Ensemble at St. Andrew’s On the Terrace Jack Body: Turtle Time Anton Killin: A Priori Simon Eastwood: Jericho: Walls Will Fall Karlo Margetic: Hommage à W.L.. Jan W. Morthenson: Unisono Charles Ives: The unanswered question Interval John Adams: "John Philip Sousa" Francis Poulenc: Sonata for clarinet and bassoon Henryk Gorecki: Piano Sonata No. 1 [...]

Peaks of Cloud – 7 March 2010

Keith Lewis (Tenor) and Michael Houstoun (Piano) at the Wellington Town Hall Henry Purcell: So when the glittering Queen of night; Not all my torments; Cold Song; Evening Hymn Jenny McLeod: Peaks of Cloud Benjamin Britten: On this Island Samuel Barber: Three songs from Ten Early Songs; Three songs from Collected Songs; Two songs from [...]

Some Unqualified Advice

I haven’t exactly been thrilled with the way that the art music side of the New Zealand Festival of the Arts has been handled (which was probably fairly evident from my post about the lineup). Of course, I really have no idea about the kind of pressures involved in a running an event like this, [...]