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		<title>NZSQ Storytellers 2026 Concert Three’s enthralling vibrancies from home and worldwide</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2026 12:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[NZSQ Storytellers 2026 Concert Three SARA ARAIN – The Internal Eclipse LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN – String Quartet No.11 in F Minor Op.95 BENJAMIN BRITTEN – String Quartet No. 3 in G Major Op.94 CLAIRE COWAN – Sweet Suite : Hansel &#38; Gretel &#8211; highlights for String Quartet New Zealand String Quartet Martin Riseley, Peter Clark <a class="read-more" href="https://middle-c.org/2026/11/nzsq-storytellers-2026-concert-threes-enthralling-vibrancies-from-home-and-worldwide/">Read More</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Nature and art, architecture and philosophy &#8211; Orchestra Wellington&#8217;s epic 2026 &#8220;Revelations&#8221;</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter Mechen]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2026 12:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[ORCHESTRA WELLINGTON 2026 – “Revelations” NATALIE HUNT – Nocturne in Black and Gold – The Falling Rocket CLAUDE DEBUSSY – Nocturnes FERRUCCIO BUSONI – Piano Concerto The concert also included items by the Sistema Group Arohanui Strings Jian Liu (piano) Marc Taddei (conductor) Arohanui Strings Sistema Youth Orchestra and associated players Orpheus Choir of Wellington <a class="read-more" href="https://middle-c.org/2026/10/nature-and-art-architecture-and-philosophy-orchestra-wellingtons-epic-revelations/">Read More</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>NZ Trio with sonorous help from friends, continues to enchant</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter Mechen]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2026 12:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[NZTrio+ at Old St.Paul’s Cathedral GARETH FARR – Ahi (for violin, ‘cello and piano) &#8211; Amalia Hall (violin)  / Matthias Balzat (‘cello) / Somi Kim (piano) CAROLINE SHAW – Thousandth Orange (for violin, viola, ‘cello and piano) with Alexander McFarlane (viola) FRANZ SCHUBERT – Piano Quintet in A Major Op.114 D.667 “Trout” (for violin, viola, <a class="read-more" href="https://middle-c.org/2026/09/nz-trio-continues-to-enchant-and-with-plenty-of-sonorous-help-from-friends/">Read More</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Orchestra Wellington&#8217;s &#8220;Colossal&#8221; triumphantly ticks all the descriptive and presentation boxes</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter Mechen]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 12:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Marc Taddei with Orchestra Wellington and Wellington District Brass Ensemblepresents “Colossal” JOSHUA PEARSON – Digital Fenua: Fakatili Te Kiloga Fau (world premiere) HECTOR BERLIOZ – Requiem: Grand Messe des Morts Kyle Stegall (tenor) Orpheus Choir, Wellington (Brent Stewart, director) Te Kōkī Orchestra / Wellington Brass Band / Trust Porirua City Brass Hutt City Brass / <a class="read-more" href="https://middle-c.org/2026/09/orchestra-wellingtons-colossal-triumphantly-ticks-all-the-descriptive-and-presentation-boxes/">Read More</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Dolfin-Lin Duo &#8211; positively tingling with spontaneous re-discovery!</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter Mechen]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 12:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Wellington Chamber Music presents: Dolfin-Lin Duo – Balazs Dolfin (‘cello) / Tony Chen Lin (piano) ZOLTÁN KODÁLY  &#8211;  Magyar Rondo (Hungarian Rondo) (1917) ANTON WEBERN  &#8211;  Sonata for ‘Cello and Piano (1914) JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH  &#8211;  Sonata for Viola da Gamba and Harpsichord in D Major  BWV 1028 GAO PING  &#8211;  Sonata No. 2 for <a class="read-more" href="https://middle-c.org/2026/09/the-dolfin-lin-duo-positively-tingling-with-spontaneous-re-discovery/">Read More</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>SPACE JUMP – An exhilarating listening leap from NZTrio into firmament-like territories</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter Mechen]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 05:16:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[FAZIL SAY – Space Jump for Piano Trio (2013) REENA ESMAIL – Piano Trio (2019) KEITH MOSS – Field Notes in Autumn (2026 &#8211; NZ Trio commisssion) ROBERT SCHUMANN – Piano Trio No 2 in F Major NZTrio  (He taonga wairere) Amalia Hall (violin), Matthias Balzat (cello), Somi Kim (piano) Wellington Central Library – Te <a class="read-more" href="https://middle-c.org/2026/09/space-jump-an-exhilarating-listening-leap-from-nztrio-into-firmament-like-territories/">Read More</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>A feast of classic and contemporary Finnish music &#8211; from Pietari Inkinen and the NZSO</title>
		<link>https://middle-c.org/2026/08/a-feast-of-classic-and-contemporary-finnish-music-from-piertari-inkinen-and-the-nzso/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter Mechen]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 12:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[New Zealand Symphony Orchestra  &#8211; Myths and Legends 2026 Pietari Inkinen conducts the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra  &#8211; Photo, Phoebe Cassidy, NZSO SIBELIUS _ Pohjola’s Daughter MAGNUS LINDBERG – Violin Concerto No.2 Vesa-Matti Leppänen (violin) SIBELIUS – Four Legends (Lemminkäinen Suite) Lemminkäinen and the Maidens of Saari Lemminkäinen in Tuonela The Swan of Tuonela Lemminkäinen’s <a class="read-more" href="https://middle-c.org/2026/08/a-feast-of-classic-and-contemporary-finnish-music-from-piertari-inkinen-and-the-nzso/">Read More</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>New Zealand String Quartet bring to us music with “the beauty of loneliness,  pain, strength and freedom”</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter Mechen]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 12:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[New Zealand String Quartet – Storytellers Music by Henry Purcell, Anthony Ritchie, Fanny Mendelssohn, Salina Fisher and Benjamin Britten Prefab Hall, Jessie St., Mt.Cook, Wellington Wednesday 12th August Review by Leila Lois, for “Middle C” We are seated in the glowing wooden wood panelled warehouse structure of Prefab Hall, ensconced down a laneway in Wellington’s <a class="read-more" href="https://middle-c.org/2026/08/new-zealand-string-quartet-bring-to-us-music-with-the-beauty-of-loneliness-pain-strength-and-freedom/">Read More</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Classics and commemoratives from the splendid Aroha Quartet</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter Mechen]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 12:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Wellington Chamber Music presents the Aroha String Quartet The Aroha Quartet: Eli Vincent (viola), Konstanze Artmann (violin), Haihong Liu (leader), Robert Ibell (&#8216;cello)  &#8211; photo, Wellington Chamber Music HAYDN – String Quartet Op. 64 No,6 BARBER – String Quartet Op.11 ROSS CAREY – Toccatina (Elegy &#8211; 2010) BEETHOVEN – String Quartet No. 10 “Harp” Op.74 <a class="read-more" href="https://middle-c.org/2026/08/classics-and-commemoratives-from-the-splendid-aroha-quartet/">Read More</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>NSZO&#8217;S Let There Be Light illuminates Saariaho, Prokofiev and Tchaikovsky</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter Mechen]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Shan Liu (piano) with Jaime Martín and the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra &#8211; photo, New Zealand Symphony Orchestra KALJA SAARIAHO (1952-2023) – Lumiere et Pesanteur SERGE PROKOFIEV (1891-1953 – Piano Concerto No. 3 In C Major Op.26 PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY (1840-1893 – Symphony No. 4 in F Minor Op.36 Shan Liu (piano) Jaime Martín (conductor) <a class="read-more" href="https://middle-c.org/2026/07/nszos-let-there-be-light-illuminates-saariaho-prokofiev-and-tchaikovsky/">Read More</a>]]></description>
		
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