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About Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra
The New Zealand Herald Premier Series – Boléro
8pm, Thursday 17 October
Auckland Town Hall
Conductor Kazuki Yamada
Piano Louis Schwizgebel
Arvo Pärt Fratres
Bartók Music for Strings, Percussion and Celeste
Ravel Piano Concerto in G
Ravel Boléro
Meditative, timeless, unutterably beautiful, Pärt’s Fratres is something that seems to exist outside of this world.
Bartók inhaled the essence of Hungarian folk music and from it made his own language. In the Music for Strings, Percussion and Celeste, we have the mysterious sounds of a moonlit night and the rustic energy of a village dance.
Ravel’s featherweight concerto is infused with the essence of jazz, but it is jazz through a very Ravellian filter. Then, an endlessly repeated rhythm, a sinuously feline melody, an imperceptible but implacable crescendo: it is the most hypnotic piece in the business, Ravel’s always-exhilarating Boléro.
The New Zealand Herald Premier Series – Zarathustra
8pm, Thursday 31 October
Auckland Town Hall
Conductor Giordano Bellincampi
Cello Harriet Krijgh
Mozart Symphony No.29
Haydn Cello Concerto No.1
R. Strauss Also sprach Zarathustra
Although born a generation apart, Mozart and Haydn were dear friends and these two pieces are well paired. One of Mozart’s sunniest symphonies bounces off Haydn’s cheerful concerto, played by the outstanding Dutch cellist Harriet Krijgh.
Then Strauss’s huge tone-poem. It is best known for that music in 2001: A Space Odyssey, but there’s much more to it than that, including some seriously glorious music for the strings and a sparkling solo for the concertmaster. It is a piece that offers Maestro Bellincampi and the APO a chance to really shine.
The New Zealand Herald Premier Series – Conflict & Triumph
8pm, Thursday 14 November
Auckland Town Hall
Conductor Giordano Bellincampi
Violin Ning Feng
Salina Fisher New work
Beethoven Violin Concerto
Nielsen Symphony No.5
The extraordinarily talented young New Zealand violinist and composer, Salina Fisher, was the youngest ever winner of The SOUNZ Contemporary Award, and she’s won it again since. We are eagerly waiting to hear what she’s got in store for us in her new piece.
APO favourite Ning Feng returns with Beethoven’s titanic concerto, one of the summits of the violinist’s repertoire.
Giordano Bellincampi continues his survey of his compatriot Carl Nielsen’s music with this remarkable symphony. The then-recent First World War is echoed in staggeringly violent music, with a rogue snare drum doing its best to upend the orchestra.
Templar Great Classics – Pastoral
7.30pm, Thursday 3 October
Auckland Town Hall
Conductor Douglas Boyd
Violin Amalia Hall
Elgar Introduction and Allegro
Saint-Saëns Violin Concerto No.3
Beethoven Symphony No.6 ‘Pastoral’
The dynamic Scottish conductor Douglas Boyd returns with a programme of pure pleasure. Elgar’s carefree Introduction and Allegro gives the APO strings a moment in the sun.
The prodigiously talented New Zealand violinist Amalia Hall made her début with the APO at the age of nine. She joins us for Saint-Saëns’ delightful champagne concerto.
Getting out of Vienna and into the country was vital for Beethoven, and in this piece he pours his love of nature into ever more magnificent music: singing of birds, streams, a storm with thunderbolts and lightning, and the rainbow after the downpour.