APO Season Brochure 2023

Annelien Van Wauwe (Photo: Marco Borggreve)
MOZART’S CLARINET
7.30pm, Thursday 28 September
Auckland Town Hall
Sergey Khachatryan (Photo: Marco Borggreve)
Conductor Jun Märkl
Basset Clarinet Annelien Van Wauwe
Mozart Clarinet Concerto
Toshio Hosokawa Circulating Ocean
Debussy La Mer
For the shock of the wind and the waves,
and the smack of salt spray, look no further
than Debussy’s La Mer.
The Japanese composer Toshio Hosokawa
was inspired by the water cycle (‘mist rising
from the sea, clouds forming, rain falling
down to earth’) but saw it as a metaphor for
‘the cycle of human life, of our attachment
to nature, of our striving for emptiness,
removal of boundaries and perfection’.
Annelien Van Wauwe plays Mozart’s
golden concerto on the basset clarinet, the
historic, less-often heard type of clarinet
for which he originally wrote it.
SYMPHONIC DANCES
7.30pm, Thursday 19 October
Auckland Town Hall
Conductor Chloé van Soeterstède
Violin Sergey Khachatryan
Prokofiev Classical Symphony
Mendelssohn Violin Concerto
Rachmaninov Symphonic Dances
The Symphonic Dances was the last music Rachmaninov
wrote, and in many ways it is a summation of his life’s work.
We hear his darkly brilliant orchestration, his heritage, and –
possibly for the first time in his music – an affirmation of life
over death.
Mendelssohn’s immortal Violin Concerto is one of those
pieces which is always fresh and vital, especially in the
hands of the superb violinist Sergey Khachatryan. So too
is Prokofiev’s tribute to Haydn, a gleeful appropriation of
18th century music with his trademark quicksilver wit.
The APO Young Companion ticket gives you the
opportunity to bring up to three guests, aged 16 and
under, along to a concert for free when you buy a full price
adult or senior ticket. apo.co.nz/+YC
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