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10 reviews
To the title of this review I was tempted to add the word “enterprising”, in referring to the inclusion in Wellington City Orchestra’s programme of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s little-known and until recently rarely locally-performed Third…
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…
Wednesday 16 May, 7:30 pm Te reo Maori for the numeral 3 is toru ; thus ‘Toru Trio’ is a redundancy. This instrumental trio comprises harp, viola and flute, modelled on Debussy’s war-time piece; all are players in Orchestra Wellington. All…
Wednesday, 23 November 2016, 12.15 pm A large audience greeted a wonderfully varied line-up of professional musicians – and of music. The opening work immediately grabbed one’s attention; Ginastera’s work was delightful and full of subtle…
Saturday, 28 May 2016, 7pm This harp duo was enjoyed by all those present, but the atrocious weather and the number of other music events on in the city may have contributed to the rather small audience – approx. 40 people.
Saturday, 14th November, 2015 I suppose there must be even more outlandish combinations of pairs of musical instruments than trombone and harp playing somewhere else in the world at this very moment, though none would, I think, bring…
Music by Debussy ( En bateau and La plus que lente ), Persichetti (Serenade No 10 for flute and harp), Bach (Flute sonata in G minor, BWV 1020), Piazzolla ( Bordello and Café from Histoire du tango )
Sunday, 26 October 2014 The Futuna chapel proved to be an ideal venue for harp music, being small and intimate, and very resonant, with its timber and concrete surfaces. There was no difficulty in hearing the quietest sounds, and the…
Works by Anthony Ritchie, Graeme Downes, Pepe Becker, Lyell Cresswell, Gillian Whitehead, Chris Adams, Claire Cowan, Ross Carey and Mark Smythe.
Tuesday, 17 July 2012, 12.15 pm An attractive concert was detracted from by the lack of a printed programme; the introduction by Carolyn Mills was eminently audible; not all her university student pupils emulated her in this respect,…
