The Ghost Trio presents a fitting finale to Wellington Chamber Music’s 2024...
Wellington Chamber Music presents: THE GHOST TRIO – SCHUMANN, HOLMES, SAARIAHO. RAVEL ROBERT SCHUMANN – Piano Trio No. 1 Op.63 LEONIE HOLMES – Dance of the Wintersmith (2017) KAIJA SAARIAHO – Calices...
View Article“A feather on the Breath of God” transports us all… Baroque Voices’ 30-year...
Baroque Voices – From Hildegarde to JS Bach – Sacred German Music for one to eight voices spanning seven centuries Music by Hildegarde of Bingen, “The Tannhauser”, Wizlau von Rügen, Caspar Othmayer,...
View ArticleA “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...
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