A “Tosca” to be relished – Wellington Opera in full cry
Wellington Opera presents: GIACOMO PUCCINI – Tosca (opera in three acts) Libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa & Luigi Illica Cast Cesare Angelotti – Samson Setu (bass) Sacristan – Wade Kernot (bass) Mario...
View ArticlePoetry and drama at the keyboard from pianist Quang Hong Luu
Quang Hong Luu St.Andrew’s 2024 Lunchtime Concert Series presents: QUANG HONG LUU (piano) – a programme of 19th Century Romantic Piano Music FRANZ LISZT – “Funérailles” from Harmonies Poétiques et...
View ArticleWellington City Orchestra’s mix of enchantment and exoticism at St.Andrew’s
Wellington City Orchestra presents: MOZART – Overture “Cosi fan tutte” K.588 MOZART – Concerto for Flute and Harp in C Major K.299 RIMSKY-KORSAKOV – Symphony No. 3 in C Major Op.32 Karen Batten (flute)...
View ArticleWellington’s Youth Orchestras show the way through is together!
“SYMPHONIC FUSION” Wellington Youth Orchestra and Wellington Youth Sinfonietta Mark Carter (WYO) and Christiaan van der Zee (WYS) – conductors Xavier Ngaro (violin) SUPPE – Overture “Poet and Peasant”...
View ArticleOrchestra Wellington’s “The Jazz Age”– innovative, big-boned and fulsome!
Orchestra Wellington presents: “The Jazz Age” KEITH MOSS – A Kalahari Eclogue Arohanui Strings and Orchestra Wellington GEORGE GERSHWIN (arr. RUSS GARCIA) – Porgy and Bess Deborah Wai Kapohe (soprano)...
View ArticleLuu Hong Quang’s Liszt recording proclaims its lustre on Rattle Records
FRANZ LISZT – Etudes d’execution transcendante S.139 (Transcendental Etudes) Luu Hong Quang (piano) Rattle Records RAT-D152 2024 Reviewed “Middle C” November 2024 Vietnamese pianist Luu Hong Quang is...
View ArticleOrchestra Wellington – heroically fulfilling the need for music
Orchestra Wellington presents: A MODERN HERO EVE de CASTRO-ROBINSON – Hour of Lead BENJAMIN BRITTEN – War Requiem Morag Atchison (soprano) Daniel Szesiong Todd (tenor) Benson Wilson (baritone) Orpheus...
View ArticleWellington City Orchestra – heartily home-grown with Lilburn and Anthony...
Donald Maurice (conductor) and Inbal Megiddo (‘cello) rehearse Shostakovich with the Wellington City Orchestra, December 2024, at St.Andrew’s Church, Wellington DOUGLAS LILBURN – Overture “Aotearoa”...
View ArticleMichael Houstoun’s Well-Tempered Bach –“through all the tones and semitones”
JS BACH – The Well-tempered Clavier Books One and Two BWV 545-593 Michael Houstoun (piano) Rattle Records RAT D155 2024 (4) Recording Producer – Kenneth Young Recorded by John Kim and Steve Garden at...
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