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Cd Review: Martha Argerich, Early Recordings
Deutsche Grammophon has taken Argentinian pianist Martha Argerich's 75th birthday very seriously. New releases include a Bueno Aires
Deutsche Grammophon has taken Argentinian pianist Martha Argerich's 75th birthday very seriously. New releases include a Bueno Aires
Nicky Spence's impassioned performance of Andre Caplet's 1917 song-cycle, Les Prieres inevitably takes on new resonances, after an
The race is on for the one of New Zealand's premier music competitions, the Lexus Song Quest. After five days working with Head Judge
Finals night looms for the cream of young chamber musicians.
Sir Andrew Davis, who conducts the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra's Illuminations concert, roars with laughter when I tell him how
Four days after winning the country's most prestigious song contest, Benson Wilson was at his Onehunga home helping to put away groceries
In August 1901, a Hugh McLeod, writing in The New Zealand Illustrated Magazine on the occasion of yet another performance of Il Trovatore
Sinfonia Domestica of Richard Strauss offered 44 minutes of uber-romantic immersion in the second half of the NZSO's Mozart & Strauss concert.
Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra's major 2016 commission, a sixth symphony by Ross Harris, was the musical and emotional core of Thursday's
Sir Andrew Davis prefaced an enthralling Eclairs sur l'au-Dela by saying how privileged he felt to be conducting this Messiaen work for his second and probably last time.
Auckland Chamber Orchestra, under the admirable Peter Scholes, set off tonight with a welcome taste of the local.
Suyeon Kang, the first Australian to take top honours in the Michael Hill International Violin Competition, has undertaken her winner's recital tour and concerto performance.
The Youth ensemble in thrilling form on eve of departure for Europe.
We had been told that Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade had been programmed at least 23 times in the orchestra's history and, once again, it proved a reliable audience magnet.
The music of Eve de Castro-Robinson is well represented on CD, with three fine albums on the Atoll label.
Town Hall to host Michael Hill International Violin Competition star.
The Lang Lang circus came to town, pitching a tent in our most exotic movie palace.
New Zealand Opera is bringing Sara Brodie's production of The Magic Flute to Auckland after a successful season in the capital.
Enso String Quartet still has the freshness and attack that spurred one critic to rationalise the group's smouldering power as half honey and half molten lava.
Experiencing Stephen Hough's magisterial Brahms Second Piano Concerto brought back a conversation in which the Englishman talked of the power that came from the work's sense of emotional containment.
Eve de Castro-Robinson introduced her Karlheinz Company programme as music that was vivid, visceral and singular.
Alex Taylor is one of our busiest composers, as happy and able to write symphonic scores for our country's major orchestras, as well as a host of smaller pieces.
Those familiar with the Deutsche Grammophon recordings of Alice Sara Ott may wonder what she is doing in on The Chopin Project.
The "world's most successful" pianist Richard Clayderman and internationally renowned Chinese concert pianist Lang Lang are coming to NZ this year.
Bramwell Tovey's Time Tracks was a blunt, noisy launch for the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra's Aotearoa Plus, its annual concert of "cutting-edge contemporary".
In 2015, Deutsche Grammophon released a double CD of Russian pianist Grigory Sokolov's 2008 Salzburg Festival recital.
It was distressing to see so many empty seats at the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra's Spirit of Anzac concert.
By the standards of present-day "Back-to-Baroquers", Mendelssohn was a musical meddler.
Harpsichordist Christophe Rousset and his three colleagues certainly gave us the perfect soundtrack for such a delicious fantasy.
Male choirs can have an advantage over their female counterparts when it comes to octaves, but women's voices in harmony have always had a unique appeal for composers.