New Zealand Youth Choir and Voices NZ Chamber Choir join forces for two concerts in the Auckland Arts Festival celebrating the centenary of Benjamin Britten
New Zealand Youth Choir and Voices NZ Chamber Choir join forces for two concerts in the Auckland Arts Festival celebrating the centenary of Benjamin Britten.
This is a familiar baroque character dressed in classical clothes. To appease the fashion-conscious Viennese, Mozart’s patron, Baron van Swieten, commissioned him to arrange Handel’s masterwork to suit contemporary tastes.
The spine-tingling call of a conch shell, the strains of Hildegard von Bingen and medieval organum intertwined with traditional Maori, Samoan, and Taiwanese chant.
The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra's Odes to Joy features Beethoven's Symphony No 9 and Kaitiaki a new NZSO commission by Gareth Farr, with words by Witi Ihimaera.