Cav and Pag
September 20, 2011
New Zealand Opera present Pietro Mascagani and Ruggiero Leoncavallo’s Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci.
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Cantatas and Chorales
July 30, 2011
The third and final concert in the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra’s three-concert Splendour Series, inspired by Bach.
From Brandenburg to Bartók
July 11, 2011
The first in the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra’s three-concert Splendour Series, inspired by Bach.
Xerxes
March 4, 2011
New Zealand Opera present Handel’s Xerxes at the Auckland Arts Festival.
Macbeth
October 1, 2010
New Zealand Opera present Verdi’s Macbeth.
An Interview with the NZTrio
August 23, 2010
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.
Ode to Joy
July 22, 2010
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 Second Viennese School (of pioneering atonal and serial composers) or a contemporary composer (such as the brilliant Beat Furrer) does not feature. That said, Musical Director Eckehard Stier’s surprising placement of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 alongside significantly lesser-known pieces by Wolf and Schoenberg in the first concert of the series (Auckland Town Hall, July 15) made for an strong, intelligent programme that still drew a full house.
The Marriage of Figaro
June 7, 2010
New Zealand Opera present Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro.
The NZTrio
April 24, 2010
A recent Chamber Music concert performed by the NZTrio.
Mahler’s Symphony No. 8
March 2, 2010
At the New Zealand International Arts Festival, Mahler’s Eighth.
APO: Visions of Land and Sea,
The Creation
November 21, 2009
Two recent concerts performed by the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra.
Gautier Capuçon and the NZSO
October 6, 2009
The work, Bartók’s 1943 Concerto for Orchestra was the distinct highlight of a recent concert by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra.
Eugene Onegin
September 25, 2009
New Zealand Opera and Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra present Eugene Onegin.
Mahler’s Sixth
September 1, 2009
Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra perform Gustav Mahler’s Sixth Symphony.
175 East (August 13, 2009)
August 23, 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
August 7, 2009
Three recent concerts from New Zealand’s two finest orchestras.