Allegro Largo Scherzo Finale

Bela Bartok: 44 Duos (excerpts) Katherine Hoover: Kokopeli Tigran Mansurjan: Lachrymae Ludwig van Beethoven: Serenade for Flute, Violin and Viola Karen Batten (flutes), Martin Jaenecke (violin, soprano saxophone) and Victoria Jaenecke, (viola) at the Adam Concert Room The Elios Ensemble’s Friday Lunchtime concert at the NZSM provided a delightful mix of sounds, in terms of [...]

My review of the recent Gloria Coates album on Classicsonline was chosen as one of the “best customer reviews”. Which is nice, given that I only talked  about one of the works on the album (the Lyric Suite). This isn’t to say that I don’t enjoy the other works, merely that I find the Lyric [...]

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 [...]

Jenny McLeod: Cat Dreams Gillian Whitehead: Hineteiwaiwa David Downes: Bliss Mechanism Michael Norris: tesserae… interstices John Rimmer: Ring of Fire It’s a crying shame that Stroma plays only two concerts a year, because the amount of work done by both performers and composers for these concerts must be immense. This concert, part of New Zealand [...]