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MUSICAL<br />
LANDSCAPES<br />
8pm, Thursday 7 October<br />
Auckland Town Hall<br />
Carlos Miguel Prieto (Photo: Benjamin Ealovega)<br />
Conductor Carlos Miguel Prieto<br />
Guitar New Zealand Guitar Quartet<br />
Michael Abels Global Warming<br />
Rodrigo Concierto andaluz<br />
Copland Appalachian Spring: Suite<br />
Ginastera Variaciones concertantes<br />
Writing at the end of the Cold<br />
War, the American composer<br />
Michael Abels was seized by the<br />
warming of international relations,<br />
and his piece springs from the<br />
optimism of that time.<br />
Rodrigo’s flamenco-inspired<br />
concerto, for the unusual<br />
combination of four guitarists and<br />
orchestra, takes us to Andalucía<br />
to bask in the sun while breathing<br />
in fragrant flowers. Open skies<br />
and rolling hills too in Copland’s<br />
timeless masterpiece, but this time<br />
in rural Pennsylvania.<br />
And from Ginastera, another folkinspired<br />
work for multiple soloists.<br />
This time, however, twelve members<br />
of the orchestra step briefly into the<br />
spotlight, one variation for each.<br />
MAHLER 5<br />
8pm, Thursday 18 November<br />
Auckland Town Hall<br />
Conductor Giordano Bellincampi<br />
Wagner Rienzi: Overture<br />
Wagner Tristan und Isolde: Prelude<br />
and Liebestod<br />
Mahler Symphony No.5<br />
These excerpts from two of<br />
Wagner’s operas show him at very<br />
different stages of his musical<br />
life. Rienzi marked his first public<br />
success and the overture is<br />
thrilling and audacious, but when<br />
we reach the ecstasy of Tristan<br />
und Isolde, we witness an artist at<br />
the full height of his powers.<br />
We have a similar experience<br />
of genius realised in Mahler’s<br />
Fifth Symphony, whose second<br />
half centres around the famous<br />
Adagietto, a blissful love song<br />
to his wife. This huge piece<br />
encompasses an enormous range,<br />
starting with a magnificently<br />
despairing funeral march and a<br />
turbulent scherzo before switching<br />
mood entirely and ending with<br />
uncontained jubilation.<br />
Presented in collaboration with the Australian<br />
National Academy of Music (ANAM)<br />
Giordano Bellincampi (Photo: Benjamin Ealovega)<br />
THE RADICAL<br />
8pm, Thursday 25 November<br />
Auckland Town Hall<br />
Conductor Giordano Bellincampi<br />
Soprano Amanda Atlas<br />
Mezzo-soprano Sally-Anne<br />
Russell<br />
Tenor Jared Holt<br />
Bass-baritone Teddy Tahu Rhodes<br />
with the Freemasons New Zealand<br />
Opera Chorus<br />
Beethoven Symphony No.8<br />
Beethoven Symphony No.9<br />
Beethoven’s whimsical, genial<br />
Eighth Symphony is the work of an<br />
unrivalled artist who also happens<br />
to be a fellow human, laughing and<br />
joking like the rest of us.<br />
Our universal humanity is the<br />
explicit concern of his next<br />
symphony, but it’s on an entirely<br />
different scale. For the heavenstorming<br />
Ninth, the orchestra<br />
alone wasn’t enough: voices<br />
were necessary for Beethoven’s<br />
ecstatic vision. ‘All men shall<br />
become brothers,’ they sing. ‘I<br />
embrace you, O you millions –<br />
this kiss is for all the world!’<br />
With this music and its vast,<br />
elemental force, Beethoven<br />
speaks to us across the<br />
centuries and into infinity.<br />
Teddy Tahu Rhodes (Photo: Peter Coulson)<br />
THE NEW ZEALAND HERALD PREMIER SERIES<br />
Supported by the Rua & Clarrie Stevens<br />
Charitable Trust<br />
<strong>APO</strong>.CO.NZ 17
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