Gemma New conducting NZSO in Ravel's Bolero at the 75th Jubilee Concert Photo: NZSO/Latitude Creative
Performed by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra conducted by Gemma New.
This short, buoyant overture makes an irresistible curtain-raiser. Shostakovich composed it in 1954 for a concert at the Bolshoi Theatre celebrating the thirty-seventh anniversary of the October Revolution.
Recorded 9 September 2022, Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington by RNZ Concert
Producer: David McCaw
Sound Engineer: Darryl Stack