Orchestra Wellington opens its 2018 season with Golden City: a concert featuring its concert master Amalia Hall as soloist in Bartók’s Violin Concerto No 2. The young New Zealand violinist is just back from performing in Uzbekistan. She will tackle the demanding concerto which Bartók wrote in 1938 as the shadows of fascism loomed large over Europe. That tension finds plenty of expression in the music’s rapid twists and turns, always both challenging and fascinating
6 Jun 2018
