Author Archives: Samuel Holloway
Cantatas and Chorales
The third and final concert in the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra’s three-concert Splendour Series, inspired by Bach.
Xerxes
New Zealand Opera present Handel’s Xerxes at the Auckland Arts Festival.
Macbeth
New Zealand Opera present Verdi’s Macbeth.
An Interview with the NZTrio
The NZTrio—comprising violinist Justine Cormack, cellist Ashley Brown and pianist Sarah Watkins—is soon to play the third concert in their Museum series. The Trio talks about their recent work and post-University life.
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Ode to Joy
For much of its recent history, Vienna has been something of a musical incubator, a fact celebrated in the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra’s current concert series Splendour of Vienna. The focus of the series is, understandably, the Classical and Romantic mainstays of Mozart, Beethoven and Mahler, though it is a pity that a substantial work from [...]
The Marriage of Figaro
New Zealand Opera present Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro.
The NZTrio
A recent Chamber Music concert performed by the NZTrio.
Mahler’s Symphony No. 8
At the New Zealand International Arts Festival, Mahler’s Eighth.
APO: Visions of Land and Sea,
The Creation
Two recent concerts performed by the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra.
Gautier Capuçon and the NZSO
The work, Bartók’s 1943 Concerto for Orchestra was the distinct highlight of a recent concert by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra.
Eugene Onegin
New Zealand Opera and Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra present Eugene Onegin.
Mahler’s Sixth
Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra perform Gustav Mahler’s Sixth Symphony.
175 East (August 13, 2009)
175 East is an unusually constituted ensemble, with an emphasis on the bottom end. It’s an idiosyncratic combination of flute, clarinet, cello, double bass, bass clarinet and trombone that has, for over ten years, performed some of the most interesting ‘new music for old instruments’.
Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra;
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra
Three recent concerts from New Zealand’s two finest orchestras.
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