Late afternoon sunlight
Sunday, 1 May 2022 This was the first concert of a new season for Wellington Chamber Music, and the organisers must have been anxious. The pandemic has changed audiences and the business of giving concerts. Would they come?
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10 reviews
A programme of brilliantly scored Romantic era music from Wellington Youth Orchestra
Sunday 4 October, 3 pm The listing in Middle C’s Coming Events had misread details about this concert; the conductor was identified as Miguel Harth-Bedoya. In fact, he had conducted a rehearsal of the orchestra a few weeks before.
Amici Ensemble consolidates its reputation as valuable, adventurous Wellington adornment
Sunday 16 September 3 pm We have owed a great deal to this splendid, many-facetted ensemble over the years, held together by NZSO Associate Concertmaster Donald Armstrong. Most ‘chamber music’ groups are either trios or quartets, and…
Swedish-New Zealand ensemble beguiles Waikanae with varied pieces: brand new, interesting, much loved
Sunday 29 July 2018, 2:30 pm On picking up my printed programme when entering the hall, I recalled the last chamber music concert I reviewed: Wellington Chamber Music Trust’s concert at St. Andrew’s Church in Wellington on 15 July, where…
Talents and skills of university woodwind students in St Andrew’s lunchtime recital
Wednesday, 23 May 2018, 12.15 pm It is interesting to hear music students at different levels of their courses, and of ability and achievement. All these students, though, performed well and provided engaging music. In most cases they were…
Atoll Records releases CD conspectus of Ken Wilson: Music For Winds
Monday 19 February 2018 A worthy addition to Atoll’s now substantial catalogue of recordings of music by New Zealand composers, this CD should delight many music-lovers. That it is already doing so is proved by its place at number three on…
Orchestra Wellington, Orpheus Choir, clarinet in brilliant Mozartian form
Saturday 20 August 7:30 pm To put together programmes celebrating periods in a composer’s life has been made pretty easy by the conscientious compilers of catalogues, either by musicologists or by the composers themselves. Some have been…
CMNZ scores with brilliant clarinet and piano trio at the End of Time
Thursday 28 July, 7:30 pm A programme of what, twenty years ago, might have been seen as a bit forbidding, drew a very good house at this concert, and at the end they responded very enthusiastically.
Stunning clarinet playing and a “Great” symphony courtesy of the WCO
Sunday 3rd July 2016 Mozart’s Overture to his opera/pantomime “The Magic Flute” began the Wellington Chamber Orchestra’s latest Sunday concert at St.Andrews in grand and ceremonial fashion, though it wasn’t long before the music slyly…
An experience to be savoured – Kari Kriikku with the NZSO
Friday, 30th October, 2015 The concert certainly lived up to its title – this was no genteel, well-manicured, orderly assemblage of dulcet, well-rounded tones, but a feisty, attention-grabbing trio of pieces which, thanks to on-the-spot…