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NZTrio: Hypnotique

From Music Alive, 4:30 pm today
NZTrio 2025 - Hypnotique

Photo: Jen Raoult

The NZTrio—featuring soloists Amalia Hall on violin, Matthias Balzat on cello, and Somi Kim on piano—performs in the "Hypnotique", which is centred around a chamber arrangement of Arnold Schönberg’s Verklärte Nacht. This concert presents a varied repertoire executed by the prominent New Zealand-based chamber group.

The programme includes Gabriel Fauré’s Piano Trio in D minor Op 120, Elena Kats-Chernin’s Calliope Dreaming, and Lyell Cresswell's Moto perpetuo. Alongside these pieces, Pascal Le Boeuf contributes his original composition Obliquely Wrecked and provides the arrangement for Schönberg's work.

Recorded by RNZ Concert, Concert Chamber, Auckland, 16 November 2025
Producer: Emre Ekici
Engineer: Adrian Hollay