Chamber Music concert in New Plymouth was one to savour
A number of regular Chamber Music NZ patrons missed Monday evening’s concert. A great pity as both the playing and the programme were superb. Written near the end of Brahms’s life the Trio for clarinet, cello and piano contains many appealing melodic lines. British clarinettist Julian Bliss, along with cellist Ashley Brown and pianist Sarah […]
Messiaen works a privilege to hear
Major interest in this concert was the performance of Quartet For The End of Time by Messiaen – composed and first performed with Messiaen as the pianist while a prisoner of war ” vastly different for this performance in elegant surroundings played on superb quality instruments. Messiaen was deeply religious and mystical in character, aspects […]
Fast-paced programme a crowd hit
Zoom, the first of NZTrio’s 2016 Loft concerts did just that for a taut 70 minutes of music, with matching Zoom cocktails available at the downstairs bar for thirsty patrons. An enthusiastic audience enjoyed stylish playing as well as succinct and friendly spoken introductions to unfamiliar repertoire. Later, they could take part in some hip, up-to-the-second audience research, recording spontaneous responses […]
Shen, Nalin
Meng Yuan 朦塬 for piano trio and guzheng (2014) Meng Yuan 朦塬 for piano trio (2016)
Lightbox CD excerpts
Karlo Margetić: Lightbox (2012) exc. Rachel Clement: shifting states (2003) i. sabbia (sand) – exc. ii. filigrana (filigree) – exc. iii. bullicante (with bubbles) – exc. iv. millefiori (thousand flowers) – exc. v. sommerso (submerged) – exc Alex Taylor: burlesques mécaniques (2012) i. prologue – exc. ii. [d]rag iii. interlude iv. a spanner – exc. […]
VICTORIA KELLY, HOROMONA HORO & NZTRIO – TOI HUAREWA/THE SUSPENDED WAY
NZTrio and Horomona Horo (Master taonga puoro player) workshopped together with composer Victoria Kelly in the development of Victoria’s new work Toi Huarewa – a work for piano trio and taonga puoro. Click here to read about the process on Victoria’s Blog.
Yudane, Wayan
Entering the Stream (2009) – c. 10′
Young, Ken
Piano Trio (2015) – c. 17′
Whitehead, Gillian
Ka maranga ngā kapua (2021) – c. 8′ Te waka o te rangi (2019) – c. 4′ The river flows on… (written for NZTrio and Cambodian ensemble Tray So, 2011) – c. 20′ Piano Trio (2004) – c. 20′
Ung, Chinary
In Memorium, for amplified piano trio and voices (2011) – c. 10′
