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Moana & the Tribe
Live & Proud [ Sony & BMG Entertainment New Zealand / DVD - released 5/Nov/2007 ] |
SCARLATTI / STANFORD / RHEINBURGER
Musica Sacra - masses Musica Sacra / Indra Hughes (conductor) [ Atoll Records New Zealand / CD - released 25/Oct/2002 ] "For this intriguing programme alone this is a 'must have' disc: with such distinct and compelling singing it stands as one of the most impressive choral discs I've heard for a very long time." (International Record Review June 2005) |
JANET JENNINGS / GABRIEL FAURÉ
Jennings / Faure: The Earth Child Natasha Te Rupe-Wilson (soprano), Somi Kim (piano) [ Atoll / CD - released 6/Jan/2023 ] "Janet Jennings is a fine writer for voices, and her setting of five Mansfield poems gets its world premiere here, accompanied by the same composer's previously recorded Sit Down With Me Awhile and Fauré's La chanson d'Ève." NZ Listener |
GARETH FARR
Farr: Warriors from Pluto New Zealand Chamber Orchestra. Strike. Deborah Wai Kapohe, Marc Decio Taddei [ Trust / CD - released 7/Dec/2001 ] New recording featuring two startlingly dramatic works for chamber orchestra |
New Zealand Guitar Quartet
The Passing of A Black Star [ Rattle Records / CD - released 18/Aug/2017 ] "The Passing of a Black Star is a tribute to David Bowie. Like many Bowie fans, I was shocked and saddened by his passing. The inspiration for this piece was Bowie's final album Blackstar, and the work encapsulates my emotions following his... |
ALBAN BERG / HUGO WOLF
Berg: String Quartet / Lyric Suite / Wolf: Italian Serenade New Zealand String Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 3/Jul/2007 ] The New Zealand String Quartet play masterpieces by Berg and Wolf |
GILLIAN WHITEHEAD / GARETH FARR / TABEA SQUIRE / ROSS HARRIS / LOUISE WEBSTER / SALINA FISHER
Notes From A Journey II New Zealand String Quartet [ Atoll / CD - released 24/Nov/2023 ] WINNER: New Zealand Music Awards Classical 2024 |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: String Quartet No.15 in G Major D887 New Zealand String Quartet [ Trust / CD - released 18/Nov/2013 ] New Zealand String Quartet: Schubert represents a milestone in the Quartet's career of over 25 years with a recording of Franz Schubert's masterpiece, String Quartet in G Major, D.887. As Schubert's final and most epic string quartet, it is essential... |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: String Quartet No 3 / Clarinet Quintet New Zealand String Quartet, with James Campbell (clarinet) [ Naxos / CD - released 28/Mar/2017 ] Brahms wrote his String Quartet in B flat major, Op. 67 in 1876 and its largely unclouded and cheerful qualities culminate in a theme and variations finale of exceptional imagination and mastery of form. His last chamber music was inspired by a great... |
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra
Rhapsody [ Viscount / CD - released 15/Jun/2009 ] |
MICHAEL F. WILLIAMS
Williams: Letters From The Front New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Benjamin Northey, Madeleine Pierard & Paul Gittins [ Atoll Records / CD - released 11/Dec/2020 ] Michael Williams is a well-known figure in New Zealand composition. He has received commissions from most of the country's major musical institutions including the NZSO, NBR New Zealand Opera and Chamber Music New Zealand and his music is regularly... |
CHRISTOPHER BLAKE
Blake: Symphony - Voices The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Bramwell Tovey [ Atoll Records New Zealand / CD - released 11/Jun/2019 ] A dramatic symphonic journey through T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land", recorded live. |
AURORA AUSTRALIS
Aurora Australis: Asia Pacific Festival 2007 New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Contemporary Music Ensemble Korea, Strike Percussion Ensemble, STROMA, New Zealand Trio, etc [ Atoll / Lilburn Trust / 2 CD - released 20/Jul/2012 ] |
GIACOMO MEYERBEER
Meyerbeer: Overtures and Entr'actes from the French Operas New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Darrell Ang [ Naxos / CD - released 10/May/2014 ] "The New Zealand Symphony…plays with spirit and has been well trained. Singaporean conductor Darrell Ang brings to these performances an obvious love for the music, infusing them with taut rhythms, crisp attacks, and bountiful energy." Fanfare |
GARY DAVERNE
Youth of Auckland New Zealand Symphony Orchestra / Gary Daverne [ Viscount / CD - released 15/Jun/2009 ] |
ANTHONY RITCHIE
Ritchie: Symphony No. 6 New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Hamish McKeich [ Rattle Records / CD - released 1/Sep/2023 ] Symphony No. 6 is a meditation on love, death, and the afterlife. From the plaintive saxophone solo at the start to the mysterious flights of spirits in the third movement and the grieving of the finale, this symphony takes the listener on an... |
MARSHALL / LILBURN / TCHAIKOVSKY / MacCUNN / SAINT-SAENS / etc
Wild Music - New Zealand Orchestral Music New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Hamish McKeich [ Trust / CD - released 9/Aug/2004 ] Superb performances of pieces by New Zealand composers Marshall and Douglas Lilburn as well as Tchaikovsky, Dvorák, Elgar, and Saint-Saëns. |
ALEXANDER ZEMLINSKY
Zemlinsky: Die Seejungfrau / Sinfonietta New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, James Judd [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Aug/2009 ] "James Judd… galvanises the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra into playing this challenging score with sensitivity and a good deal of virtuosity." BBC Music |
DOUGLAS LILBURN
Lilburn: A Song of Islands / Aotearoa Overture / Forest / etc New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, James Judd [ Naxos / CD - released 5/Oct/2006 ] "A Kiwi legend is handsomely served by his homeland. James Judd and his New Zealand forces find an openness and an energy in the music that evokes all the majesty of that country's landscape." Editor's Choice - Gramophone Magazine (Dec 2006) |
BERNARD HERRMANN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Herrmann: The Devil and Daniel Webster / Currier and Ives / etc New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, James Sedares [ Koch International Classics / CD - released 5/Jun/1994 ] "Koch International's amazing James Sedares zeroes relentlessly in on the essence of Bernard Herrmann's playfully prickly personality in graphically pictorial versions of the Currier and Ives Suite (a first recording) and deeply moving... |
