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27 July 2025
NZSO: Aotearoa Plus 2017
BOULEZ: Mémoriale (…explosante-fixe…originel)
FARR: Cello Concerto, Chemin des Dames
ADAMS: Naïve and Sentimental Music
Sébastien Hurtaud (cello), New Zealand SO/Hamish McKeich
Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington 05/05/17 (RNZ)
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Sound Lounge: Ancient springs and pagan worship inspire Leonie Holmes piece
27 Apr 2019When Auckland composer Leonie Holmes visited the ancient springs in Bath, England, once used by Ancient Romans and Celts, she turned her pagan imaginings into her chamber work Aquae Sulis. Read more Video
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Sound Lounge: Flo Wilson featurette
13 Apr 2019Check out some music by Auckland composer, performer and artist Flo Wilson, whose immersive installation 'Prelude For a Requiem' is open until 27 April 2019 at the Audio Foundation in Auckland. Read more Video
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Sound Lounge: Composer Dissection - John Psathas on Helix
6 Apr 2019A NZ composer dissects one of their works in plain and simple language. This time John Psathas on his epic piano trio Helix. Read more Video
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Sound Lounge: Three NZ compositions inspired by birds
30 Mar 2019Three examples of works by New Zealand composers inspired by birds - one introduced, one native and one imaginary. Read more Video, Audio
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Sound Lounge: Al Fraser's sonic journey through the primal realm
21 Mar 2019Al Fraser's latest album Toitu Te Puoro takes as it’s starting point the realm of primal, elemental energy or latent being, where all created things originate. Read more Video, Audio
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Sound Lounge: Kirsten Strom to be mentored by Saariaho at Etchings Festival, France
16 Mar 2019Kirsten Strom has been accepted as a Composer Fellow in this year’s Etchings Festival in Auvillar, France where she'll be mentored by some of the great established composers of our time, including one… Read more Video
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Sound Lounge: 1984 From Scratch music/video - Drum/Sing; Gareth Farr's deconstruction of ‘Now is the Hour'
9 Mar 2019Watch the seminal 1984 music/video Drum/Sing by From Scratch; Gareth Farr's He Poroporoaki (A Farewell) is a deconstruction of ‘Now is the Hour’ (Po Atarau), a song forever associated with the… Read more Video
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Sound Lounge: Karlheinz Company Suffrage 125 Celebration Concert
2 Mar 2019In 2018 The Karlheinz Company celebrated Suffrage 125 with a concert of works by female composers from New Zealand and abroad. Read more Video
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Sound Lounge: James Newton Howard's Violin Concerto; Whitehead's Serenade for Ann Morris
23 Feb 2019Plus haunting violin and tape delay music by Anita Clarke; piano music by NZ composer and improviser Steve Barry; and Relevant Tones looks at modern compositions that have still been influenced by… Read more Video
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Sound Lounge: Laurie Anderson & Kronos's Grammy-winning Landfall; Psathas's Three Psalms
16 Feb 2019Plus NZ experimental electronic music by Emi Pogoni and Flo Wilson; and Wilco guitarist Nels Cline is Seth's guest on Relevant Tones. Read more Video
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Sound Lounge: More 2019 Grammy-nominated works; Carol Shortis's setting of a Gaelic death dirge
9 Feb 2019We hear 2019 Grammy-nominated works by Missy Mazzoli, Mason Bates, Aaron Jay Kernis; More new music by Chinese-American composer Dy Yun from her album Dinosaur Scar; Carol Shortis's death dirge, An… Read more Video
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Sound Lounge: 2019 Grammy-nominated Air Glow by Du Yun is a daring work for trumpets and laptops; Mason Bates's Liquid Interface depicts water moving through all its states
2 Feb 2019There is so much great music in the world and we’ve discovered a lot of great works for programs. Sometimes we find so much great music we can’t possibly fit it all into a one-hour program. ‘Outtakes’… Read more Video
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