Live Music
S FISHER: Mata-Au for string trio
Benjamin Baker (vln), Amanda Verner (vla), Matthias Balzat (cello) Performed at the Martinborough Music Festival in the Martinborough Town Hall, 23 September, 2023 Audio
FRANCAIX: Trio for oboe, bassoon and piano
Robert Orr (ob), Todd Gibson-Cornish (bssn), Laurence Matheson (pno) Performed at the Martinborough Music Festival in the Martinborough Town Hall, 23 September, 2023 Audio
RACHMANINOV: Cello Sonata in G minor Op 19
Todd Gibson-Cornish (bssn), Wilma Smith, Donald Armstrong (vlns), Wenhong Luo (viola), Ashley Brown (cello) Performed at the Martinborough Music Festival in the Martinborough Town Hall, 22 September… Audio
TCHAIKOVSKY: Souvenir de Florence
Benjamin Baker, Donald Armstrong (vlns), Wenhong Luo, Amanda Verner (violas), Ashley Brown, Matthias Balzat (cellos) Performed at the Martinborough Music Festival in the Martinborough Town Hall, 22… Audio
ELGAR: Romance for bassoon in D minor Op 62
Todd Gibson-Cornish (bssn), Wilma Smith, Donald Armstrong (vlns), Wenhong Luo (viola), Ashley Brown (cello) Performed at the Martinborough Music Festival in the Martinborough Town Hall, 22 September… Audio
NZCT Chamber Music Contest 2023
Thousands of Kiwi secondary school musicians and composers perform together and enjoy the thrill of making music each year in the largest and longest running chamber music event of its kind. Here are… Audio
APO: The Greats
NZ violinist Benjamin Morrison returns from Vienna to perform with the APO in a dynamic performance of Brahms and Schubert conducted by Giordano Bellincampi.
Orchestra Wellington: Fantastic Symphonies
Experience the rage, fury and opium-addled love of French composer Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique - the original anthem to sex, drugs and rock and roll. Here it is paired with it's sequel Lelio, …
Orchestra Wellington: New World
This concert features soloist Amalia Hall (violin) and features the overture to Mozart’s Don Giovanni, Sama, a new Violin Concerto by Michael Norris, and Dvořák’s New World Symphony.
Yeyeong Jin wins the Michael Hill International Violin Competition 2023
Yeyeong Jin’s heartfelt performance of the Brahms Violin Concerto secured first place in this prestigious event and prizes including $40,000 cash, a recording contract, a multi-city tour and the loan… Audio
Orchestra Wellington: Houstoun/Triumph!
New Zealand's best-loved pianist Michael Houstoun brings 2019's epic Orchestra Wellington season to a triumphant close!
APO: Kia Kaha!
This concert from 2020 has an overarching theme of tribute and hope. It is dedicated to all those who lost their lives to COVID-19, the people they left behind and everyone working to eliminate the…
NZSO: Bold Worlds
Enjoy the best of British music and two of its biggest names - composer / conductor Sir James MacMillan, and percussionist Colin Currie join the NZSO to celebrate the 2017 British & Irish Lions rugby…
Orchestra Wellington: Transfigured Night
Music by Bach and Beethoven, with a cadenza by Brahms completes this trio from three of the great 'Bs' of classical music. Beloved pianist and NZ classical music personality Diedre Irons is the…
BRAHMS: Symphony No 2 in D Op 73
Performed by the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Jessica Cottis in the Douglas Lilburn Auditorium of the Christchurch Town Hall, 6 May, 2023 Audio
DVORAK: Violin Concerto in A minor Op 53
Performed by Benjamin Morrison (violin), with the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Jessica Cottis in the Douglas Lilburn Auditorium of the Christchurch Town Hall, 6 May, 2023 Audio
PEACOCKE: White Horses
Performed by the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Jessica Cottis in the Douglas Lilburn Auditorium of the Christchurch Town Hall, 6 May, 2023 Audio
NZSO: Bloch & Shostakovich Enduring Spirit
LIVE: Celebrated as an inspirational conductor of Romantic and post-Romantic classical music, the New Zealand debut of Sir Donald Runnicles sees his artistry combined with that of cellist Nicolas…
APO: Má Vlast / My Homeland
Bohemia inspired Smetana to compose this musical panorama of history and landscape. Legends of fearsome warriors; Vyšehrad, the mighty fortress of ancient kings; the bucolic countryside; the battles…
APO: Best of Beethoven - The Revolutionary
The APO's ‘Pastoral’ Symphony is a tender, affectionate picture of the countryside where Beethoven pours out his joy at being in nature. The Seventh Symphony skips and leaps with vigour, yet also with…