Category Archives: Music
The Year and Decade in Review: Music
The best albums, singles and live performances of the ‘noughties’.
APO: Visions of Land and Sea,
The Creation
Two recent concerts performed by the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra.
Jordan Reyne on How The Dead Live
The dark folk/experimental musician talks about the making of her final album.
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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.
Joseph Mount on Metronomy
Metronomy’s front-man talks making music, sci-fi movies, and other priorities.
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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’.
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Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra;
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra
Three recent concerts from New Zealand’s two finest orchestras.
Francis Falceto:
A Stranger in a Welcoming Land