Allegro Largo Scherzo Finale

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet Overture Benjamin Britten: Passacaglia and Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes Dmitri Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1 The NZSM Orchestra, conducted by Kenneth Young, with Martin Riseley (violin), at St. Andrew’s on the Terrace, 14 May 2011 Before the concert… After their spectacular interpretation of Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 11 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

7. Schoenberg: Verklaerte Nacht; Schumann: Cello Concerto; Brahms arr. Schoenberg: Piano Quintet It will certainly be interesting to see how the combination of Schoenberg and Schumann succeeds here. Although it might seem as if the NZSO is moving somewhat out of the repertoire comfort zone with the one-and-a-half doses of Schoenberg, this is somewhat misleading. [...]