The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra has announced its 2014 concert schedule, including six concerts in Dunedin to be held from April through November.
We list below the Dunedin concerts. For full details of the NZSO’s 2014 concert season, visit www.nzso.co.nz/concerts/season/2014.
Visions of Happiness
WAGNER Siegfried Idyll
KORNGOLD Violin Concerto
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 4
PIETARI INKINEN conductor
MIKHAIL OVRUTSKY violin
Wednesday 9 April, 7:30pm
Russian Fire
RACHMANINOV Caprice Bohémien
SCHUMANN Piano Concerto in A Minor
SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 15
ALEXANDER LAZAREV conductor
ALEXANDER MELNIKOV piano
Wednesday 21 May, 7:30pm
Shakespeare in Music
KORNGOLD Much Ado About Nothing Suite
MENDELSSOHN Incidental music from
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
WALTON Henry V Suite
R. STRAUSS Macbeth
ALEXANDER SHELLEY conductor
Thursday 31 July, 7:00pm
The Creation
HAYDN The Creation
NICHOLAS MCGEGAN conductor
MADELEINE PIERARD soprano
ANDREW STAPLES tenor
JONATHAN LEMALU bass-baritone
with CITY CHOIR DUNEDIN
Wednesday 3 September, 7:00pm
Bold Worlds
JANÁCEK Sinfonietta
DEAN Trumpet Concerto Dramatis Personae
MUSSORGSKY (arr. RAVEL) Pictures at an Exhibition
DMITRI SLOBODENIOUK conductor
HÅKAN HARDENBERGER trumpet
Wednesday 15 October, 7:00pm
In the Hall of the Mountain King
MOZART Symphony No. 31 ‘Paris’
TCHAIKOVSKY Variations on a Rococo Theme
GRIEG Holberg Suite
GRIEG Peer Gynt Suite No. 1
BEN NORTHEY conductor
NAREK HAKHNAZARYAN cello
Thursday 27 November, 7:00pm