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NZSO Todd Young Composers Award 2015, Part 1
Music by Zac Johns, Brandon Skelton, Josiah Carr, Oliver Huang-Hsu, and Reuben Jelleyman. Presented by Hannah Darroch (RNZ). Audio
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 6, 'Pathétique'
The work was premièred with Tchaikovsky on the podium in October of 1893 just nine days before his mysterious death. The Russian title 'Pateticheskaya' means "passionate" or "emotional", implying a… Audio
The Big Sing 2015 Programme 8
Featuring Voicemale (Westlake Boys' High School), Sings Hilda (St Hilda's Collegiate School), Con Anima (St Patrick's College, Wellington), Cantare (Westlake Girls' High School), Altissime (Samuel… Audio
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 5 in E minor
Tchaikovsky was now famous and had just completed a successful European tour by the time he wrote the fifth symphony. It seems that providence had smiled on him after years of struggle and self-doubt… Audio
TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No 4 in F minor
The fourth symphony is concerned with fate, a fate that Tchaikovsky felt dealt him a weak nature. Video, Audio
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 3, 'Polish'
The third symphony is unashamedly cheerful and has at its centre one of the most romantic pieces of music that Tchaikovsky ever wrote. The nickname 'Polish' relates to the finale which draws on… Audio
TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No 2, 'Little Russian'
Orchestra Wellington conducted by Marc Taddei. Recorded at the Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington. Audio
Salina FISHER: Rainphase
Performed by NZSO National Youth Orchestra conducted by José Luis Gomez. Video, Audio
TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No 1, Winter Daydreams
Tchaikovsky's first attempt at a symphony nearly drove him to a nervous breakdown, but none of that tension found itself into the symphony, instead the idea of winter seems to have been close to his… Audio
GLINKA: Kamarinskaya
Tchaikovsky called Glinka's Fantasy on two Russian Folksongs ‘the acorn from which the oak of Russian music grew'.
Orchestra Wellington/Marc Taddei Audio
Joseph CARRILLO: All the Stars
Performed by Baroque Voices directed by Pepe Becker. Recorded 9 May 2015 at St Joseph’s Church, Wellington by RNZ Concert. Audio
WEINBERG: Cello Concerto
It was not only in Nazi Germany that certain music was considered degenerate. Soviet leaders branded much contemporary music as 'Formalist'. Polish-born Mieczyslaw Weinberg (1919-1996) emigrated to… Audio
Christchurch Symphony Orchestra - Sea to Sky
Slava Grigoryan (guitar), Christchurch SO/Benjamin Northey
LILBURN: Overture Aotearoa
WESTLAKE: Antarctica Suite
SIBELIUS: Symphony No 2 Op 43
Recorded and broadcast live from the Air Force Museum… Audio, Gallery
JS BACH: Jauchzet Frohlocket
City Choir Dunedin and Southern Sinfonia conducted by David Burchell Audio
MARSHALL: Into the garden
City Choir Dunedin, Southern Sinfonia conducted by David Burchell. Audio
Richard Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathustra
2014 NZSO National Youth Orchestra/Alexander Shelley Audio
Sarah BALLARD: Synergos
World première of NYO Composer in Residence, Sarah Ballard's Synergos, played by 2014 NZSO National Youth Orchestra conducted by Alexander Shelley Video, Audio
Tate Le Fia Manatua, Siyabangena & Ke Nna Yo Morena
'Tate Le Fia Manatua' by Steven Rapana and Benson Wilson
'Siyabangena' & 'Ke Nna Yo Morena' arranged by Ralph Schmitt
New Zealand Secondary Students' Choir/Andrew Withington Audio
Twa Tanbou
by Sydney Guillaume
New Zealand Secondary Students' Choir/Andrew Withington Audio