Middle C

Classical music reviews since 2008
Te Whanganui-a-Tara · Wellington
Wednesday, 4 November 2026

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brass

4 reviews

Brass septet produces haunting and enjoyable chamber music at the MFC

Tuesday 30 April, 7:30 pm, 2019 Three trumpets, three trombones, one a bass trombone, and a tuba is not the usual combination for a chamber music concert, but seven principal brass players of London Symphony orchestras got together to…

NZSO Soloists – becoming as sounding brass

Thursday 28th July, 2011 The irony of former Principal Horn Ed Allen’s retirement from the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra virtually on the eve of the Orchestral Brass Soloists’ Tour wasn’t lost on the writer of a section of the concert…

Adam Chamber Music Festival, Nelson

Nelson Cathedral, Tuesday 27 January I should have known what to expect from the evening concert from the trombone quartet Bonanza – the name a creaky sort of pun. Though they’ve been around for 12 years, I had never heard them. I’m…