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Wednesday 9 December, 12:15 pm Not only was this the last in the 2020 St Andrew’s lunchtime concert series (not counting the church’s Christmas carol service next Wednesday, 16 December); but the last concert organised by Marjan van…
Konstanze Artmann – violin, Rebecca Steel – flute, Calvin Scott – oboe, Oscar Laven – double bass, Kristine Zuelicke – piano
Bach’s Fugue is referred to a ‘Little’ to distinguish it from its longer and very grand ‘Great Fantasia and Fugue in G minor’. Bach wrote it for the organ and it was arranged for various different groups, including a wind quintet. It…
Wednesday, 26 September 2018 This further recital by music students from the New Zealand School of Music at Victoria University of Wellington attracted a rather smaller audience than is usual for these lunchtime concerts. However, everyone…
Friday 10 th August, 2018 I’ve copied out the titles of the pieces as per programme, which accounts for the unusual names for aria (arie), overture (ouverture) and partita (Parthia), the last of which I thought at first was some kind of…
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…
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…
Monday 26th September 2017 This was the New York-based ensemble Imani Winds’ first concert in New Zealand as part of a 10-venue tour organised by CMNZ. Every member of the group during their introductions for each of the concert’s items…
Wednesday, 9 August 2017, 12.15 pm Similarly to the crop of good string players from NZSM whom we heard at St. Andrew’s recently, so we now heard splendid woodwind players. The range of works by New Zealand composers in this rather…
Sunday 11 June, 2:30 pm The players from the NZSO who comprised five-sixths of the Zephyr Wind Ensemble have played together in varying combinations over the years, and several will have played with Diedre Irons.
Wednesday, 24 May 2017, 12.15 pm To hear young performers is always a pleasure; here we had seven young woodwind players, along with three pianists. The first piece used a student pianist, and the Bach work was unaccompanied. Hugh McMillan…
Sunday 14 August 2016, 2pm This time, pianist Catherine Norton, the promoter of Songbook, took a rest from the piano. Seasoned accompanist extraordinaire Bruce Greenfield did the honours.
Wednesday, 27 July 2016, 12.15pm Head of Woodwind at NZSM, Deborah Rawson, introduced the students taking part in the concert, and said she had asked them to find suitable works by New Zealanders. However, the unavoidable absence of a few…
New Zealand Music for Woodwind: Ken Wilson, John Elmsly, Douglas Lilburn, Natalie Hunt, Ben Hoadley, Jeremy Mayall, Anthony Ritchie
Friday 14 August, 6pm From time to time the various foreign embassies and their affiliates present concerts of their music and/or by their musicians. There was a musically inclined Italian ambassador a few years ago who arranged for…
Wednesday, July 22nd, 2015 Having recently enjoyed the concert given by the NZSM’s saxophone students, I found myself looking forward to hearing their “wind cousins”, the clarinettists, do their stuff.
Wednesday 27th May 2015 There’s more “classical” music written for the saxophone than you might think exists – after all the instrument has been around since 1846, and as such is more “established ” than its twentieth-century prominence in…
Michael Houstoun and Diedre Irons – pianists, and friends: Robert Orr (oboe), Bridget Douglas (flute), Rachel Vernon ( clarinet), Robert Weeks (bassoon), Ed Allen (horn)
Wednesday 12 November, 12:15 pm To return from a nearly two-month trip in Europe to a Wellington rich with such plentiful and excellent live music has been a considerable consolation. Not that I ever underestimated the phenomenon of a…
Wednesday 14 May 2014, 12:15 pm This was a concert I headed to with simply no idea of what to expect. It proved to be a delight from first to last. All the works explored the less frequently heard registers and timbres of the various…
Wednesday 24th July 2013 This concert featured students from the N.Z. School of Music’s Woodwind Department, which is headed by Deborah Rawson, longtime backbone of so much creative wind and saxophone activity in Wellington. The recital…
Wednesday 17th July 2013 This lunchtime programme was a rare opportunity to hear live performances of these wonderful wind ensembles from Mozart’s pen. They were presented with the assurance one would expect from such seasoned musicians,…
Quintessential – Karen Batten (flute), Madeline Sakofsky (oboe), Moira Hurst (clarinet), Preman Tilson (bassoon), Heather Thompson (French horn)
Wednesday, 29 May 2013 The puzzle of this concert was that it was advertised, and titled on the programme cover, as ‘Original and transcribed works from Vivaldi to today’, yet the earliest composer featured was Berlioz! However, I’m not…
Wednesday, 15 May 2013 A concert featuring two world premières is not a common event in New Zealand. However, this was the case on Wednesday.
Sunday 23rd September What a joy when one literally stumbles across a piece of music that then becomes a favorite! I didn’t even know wind quintets existed when, way back during my formative music explorations in the Palmerston North…
NZSM Woodwind students: Lena Taylor (flute), Emma Hayes-Smith (alto saxophone), David McGregor (clarinet), Andreea Junc (flute), Hannah Sellars (clarinet), Reuben Chin (soprano saxophone) and NZSM Saxophone Quartet (Chin, Hayes-Smith,…
Sunday 15 July, 2.30pm The famous Mulled Wine Concerts in the hall on The Parade, Paekakariki, staged the first performance by a new wind ensemble, to honour the stormy seas pounding the beach across the road. No ordinary wind ensemble,…
Wednesday, 2 May 2012, 12.15pm The playing of the ‘Wild Reeds’ was wonderfully uplifting right from the start of their programme. It may have been a wild wind with rain outside, but this ensemble, far from being wild, was precise and…
Michael Fowler Centre. Saturday 19 February 2011, 8pm It was delightful to hear unusual music from the wind ensemble made up of players from the wind sections of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. Flutes, oboes, clarinets, bassoons…
Quintet X : Nielsen: Wind Quintet – first movement, Armando Ghidoni: Adagio from Badaluk – Concerto for wind quintet, Poulenc: Sextet for winds and piano
Frank Martin: Ballade for flute and piano; Giovanni Bassano: Ricercata Quarta and Frais et Gaillard; Saint-Saens: Sonata for bassoon and piano; Ryo Noda: Improvisation 1 for solo alto saxophone; Telemann, arr. H. Roud: Fantasie for solo…
Naturally, there were varying levels of achievement amongst the students featured, but they all gave a good account of themselves. Throughout the concert (there was only one unaccompanied item), piano accompaniments were sensitively and…
Whirlwind: Eshian Teo (flute), Jose Wilson (oboe, cor anglais), Andrzej Nowicki (clarinet), Kylie Nesbit (bassoon), Alex Morton (French horn)