Moving and delightful recital of German Lieder at St Andrew’s
Though we missed St Andrew’s lunchtime concert last week celebrating the survival of live music in public places, this was warmly encouraging with a back-to-normal audience, from two graduate students at Victoria University's School of Music. The last time I heard Will King was in Eternity Opera’s production of The Marriage of Figaro in 2017. Though I’d like to hear him again in opera, this recital showed him as a...A beautiful “Mozart hat-trick” from Orchestra Wellington
This was the third and final of the three programmes of Mozart presented on consecutive Saturdays in June 2020 by Amalia Hall and members of Orchestra Wellington, of which ensemble she is the concertmaster. Intended to be a kind of celebration of the nation’s lifting of “lockdown” conditions originally imposed by the Government to counter the presence of the Covid-19 virus, the concerts, though still limiting audience numbers to...Orchestra Wellington’s second concert featuring Mozart violin concertos and city-named symphonies
This second programme in Orchestra Wellington’s ‘recovery’ series of concerts at St Andrew’s continued with the twin themes: the last three of the five violin concertos written in 1775 when Mozart was 19 {if we don’t count the dubious violin concerto “No 7 (K 271a/271i)”}; and the three symphonies that bear place names. Now in the pandemic’s ‘alert level 1’, this was a full house, if we don’t count the...Orchestra Wellington restores live music to the city with Mozart at St Andrews
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This was the first of three concerts entitled "Amalia and Friends" featuring three violin concerti and three symphonies by Mozart: "Paris", "Prague" and "Linz".
After nearly three months of lockdown without live music, this first outing for Orchestra Wellington was an almost festive occasion for its Wellington audience. Over the past weeks the NZSO has invited us in to individual members' homes for cameo performances in the "