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Upbeat for Wednesday 17 June 2015

  • Rolf Gjelsten: Cellist

    2:01 PM.New Zealand String Quartet cellist Rolf Gjelsten plays the Dvorak Concerto with Auckland's St Matthew's Chamber Orchestra on Sunday. He tells Eva what it's like to be a soloist again, after so many… Read more Audio

2pm Rolf Gjelsten

Soloist for the St Matthew's Chamber Orchestra performance of Dvorak's Cello Concerto

Rolf Gjelsten
Photo: David Hamilton

2:20 David Alsop

Upbeat visual arts contributor

2:40 Rumon Gamba

British conductor working with the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra this week

Rumon Gamba by Andreas Nilsson
Photo: Andreas Nilsson

Music played in this show

J WRIGHT: Age
Jason Wright (elec)
Private

DVORAK: Concerto in B minor for cello and orchestra Op 104
Miklos Perenyi (vlc) Budapest Festival Orchestra / Ivan Fischer
Hungaroton  HCD 12868

D'INDY: Médée et Jason, from Médée Op 47
Iceland SO / Rumon Gamba
Chandos CHAN 10760

BARTOK:Violin Concerto No 2 Sz112, Allegro Molto
Isabelle Faust (vln), Swedish Radio SO / Daniel Harding
Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 2146

MOZART: The Magic Flute, Overture
Concerto Cologne / Anton Steck
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