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NORDIC FIRE<br />
8pm, Thursday 25 February<br />
Auckland Town Hall<br />
Steven Logan<br />
ENDURING SPIRIT<br />
8pm, Thursday 15 April<br />
Auckland Town Hall<br />
Natalia Lomeiko (Photo: Jane Blundell)<br />
THE ROMANTIC<br />
8pm, Thursday 13 May<br />
Auckland Town Hall<br />
Giordano Bellincampi (Photo: Benjamin Ealovega)<br />
THE NEW ZEALAND HERALD PREMIER SERIES<br />
Conductor Vincent Hardaker<br />
Director Andrew Beer<br />
Timpani Steven Logan<br />
Sibelius Finlandia<br />
Kalevi Aho Concerto for Timpani<br />
and Orchestra<br />
Magnus Lindberg Gran Duo for<br />
Woodwinds and Brass<br />
Grieg Holberg Suite<br />
New Zealand Assistant Conductorin-Residence<br />
Vincent Hardaker<br />
and Concertmaster Andrew Beer<br />
take us to Scandinavia. Sibelius’<br />
proud salute to his homeland is<br />
twinned with Grieg’s little gem, an<br />
absolutely perfect piece of music<br />
for strings.<br />
The wind and brass sections get<br />
to show off, too. Finnish composer<br />
Magnus Lindberg conceived of<br />
his broad, spacious piece as, in<br />
his words, ‘an orchestra where<br />
the strings didn’t arrive on time’.<br />
Lindberg’s compatriot Kalevi<br />
Aho wrote his exuberant Timpani<br />
Concerto in 2016, the same year<br />
that Steven Logan joined the <strong>APO</strong>.<br />
It’ll open your eyes and ears to<br />
the visual and aural drama of the<br />
big drums.<br />
Conductor Giordano Bellincampi<br />
Violin Natalia Lomeiko<br />
Kodály Dances of Galánta<br />
Shostakovich Violin Concerto No.2<br />
Nielsen Symphony No.4<br />
‘The Inextinguishable’<br />
Kodály takes a nostalgic trip to<br />
his boyhood in the Slovakian town<br />
of Galánta. Based on traditional<br />
Hungarian tunes, this sparkling<br />
piece lovingly evokes the village<br />
bands of Kodály’s earliest<br />
memories.<br />
Hints of reminiscence, too, in<br />
Shostakovich’s Second Violin<br />
Concerto. Shostakovich wrote<br />
it for his friend, the great David<br />
Oistrakh, and alluded to traditional<br />
music from Oistrakh’s childhood in<br />
Odessa. Natalia Lomeiko returns<br />
to New Zealand and the <strong>APO</strong> to<br />
perform this intense work.<br />
Continuing his survey of Nielsen’s<br />
music, Giordano Bellincampi<br />
reaches the Fourth Symphony. It’s<br />
best described by its composer:<br />
‘One word to indicate what Music<br />
alone is capable of expressing to<br />
the full ... music is life, and like it,<br />
inextinguishable.’<br />
Conductor Giordano Bellincampi<br />
Beethoven Symphony No.4<br />
Beethoven Symphony No.5<br />
After the revolutionary Third<br />
Symphony, Beethoven returned<br />
to his Classical roots. Lithe and<br />
sophisticated, the ebullient Fourth<br />
Symphony is the ultimate Haydn<br />
tribute, and is Beethoven at his<br />
most outgoing and confident.<br />
Then a complete change of mood.<br />
The extraordinarily original Fifth<br />
Symphony is a work of staggering<br />
power. It is unremittingly terse<br />
and intense, beginning shrouded<br />
in darkness and ending in blazing<br />
jubilation. It is one of the most<br />
famous pieces of music ever<br />
written, and rightly so. It doesn’t<br />
matter how well you know<br />
Beethoven 5, a performance is<br />
always an event.<br />
Presented in association with<br />
<strong>APO</strong>.CO.NZ 13
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