A Superb Concert
FULL REVIEW: This was a superb concert. Not just for the quality of the playing – which was predictably wonderfully focused – but rather for a beautifully balanced programme, which encompassed some important corners of Western music, plus a new work of some substance. Any new work from Kenneth Young needs to be heard and […]
Helix CD excerpts
John Psathas: Helix Archon : Metron (exc.) The Biggest Nothing of Them All (exc.) Tarantismo (exc.)
A Salutary Experience
FULL REVIEW: For those who have experienced NZTrio only on CD, and only in new music, this concert was a salutary experience, as it displayed their talents in music from the musical mainstream. The Chopin Piano Trio dates from 1829 so it is a very early work, and it displays little of the characteristic Chopin […]
NZTrio LIVE at Auckland Town Hall April 2010
Joaquin Turina: Piano Trio No.1 Opus 35 (exc.) Jennifer Higdon: Fiery Red (exc.) Robert Schumann: Piano Trio No.2 Mit Energie und Leidenschaft (exc.) Lebhaft, doch nicht zu rasch (exc.) Langsam, mit inniger Empfindung (exc.) Mit Feuer (exc.)
O Cambodia CD excerpts
O CAMBODIA Him Sophy: The First Strike Part 1 (exc.) Part 2 (exc.) Jack Body: O Cambodia Anthem (exc.) Proverb (exc.) Smot (exc.) Chinary Ung: In Memorium (exc.) Gillian Whitehead: The river flows on Prophecy (exc.) Sokha’s Story (exc.) The river flows on (exc.)
Lightbox
Lightbox (2012) 12:43 Karlo Margetić (NZTrio commission) shifting states (2003) 12:27 Rachel Clement (NZTrio commission) ii. filigrana (filigree) 2:02 iii. bullicante (with bubbles) 1:36 iv. millefiori (thousand flowers) 2:43 v. sommerso (submerged) 3:47 burlesques mécaniques (2012) 11:42 Alex Taylor (NZTrio commission) i. prologue 0:48 ii. [d]rag 0:24 iii. interlude 0:38 iv. a spanner 1:12 v. […]
Lightbox
Hot off the press, Lightbox features recent commissions by some of the finest of the current generation of New Zealand composers. Taking its title from Karlo Margetić’s SOUNZ Contemporary award-winner, Lightbox features works by Claire Cowan, Rachel Clement, Alex Taylor, Samuel Holloway, Gao Ping, and Chris Gendall. Download in iTunes. Buy Now
800 Million Heartbeats
NZTrio plays music of Stuart Greenbaum. With this new album, their first on the ABC Classics label, the Trio presents music by award-winning Australian composer Stuart Greenbaum. The Greenbaum sound has clear connections to jazz, pop and minimalism but goes beyond these important influences: ‘I often conceive of music in terms of journeys, but I […]
Take a bow
FULL REVIEW: On their third album for Rattle, NZTrio are again in their performance element tilling the fertile soil of some of New Zealand brightest emerging composers. The title track is a multi-layered and hued piece by Karlo Margetic, where a simple piano melody sets an almost searching tone, taken up by spiraling violin and […]
Top local ensemble stunningly updates the Kiwi piano trio
There’s a delicious convergence of the arts on NZTrio’s new Lightbox CD, tantalisingly wrapped in the scuffed fluoro hues of Jim Speers’ English Electric. Speers’ prize-winning sculpture is a lightbox, and such is the presence of this Rattle recording that, thanks to producer Wayne Laird and engineer Steve Garden, with a little bit of whimsy, you might […]
