Artists
Location
Auckland Town Hall, Auckland NZ
Date
August 9, 2018Pictures
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terrylev
Could there be a more deliciously tempting overture than Samuel Barber's School for Scandal, the American's effervescent orchestral debut at the age of 21?
Tobias Ringborg certainly made it so with Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra and the tingle of expectation running through a packed Auckland Town Hall augurs well for the Swedish maestro when he conducts NZ Opera's La Boheme next month.
After Barber's teasing flurries and darting wit, Rachmaninov's popular Second Piano Concerto dealt out more primal emotions, Russian style. Soloist Henry Wong Doe took on its many challenges with ease, totally unruffled by glittering passagework and bringing just the right heft to forests of chords.
There was admirable restraint in the Adagio sostenuto, making us forget its melody's later pop notoriety while reminding us that it is still one of music's most beautiful nocturnes this side of Chopin. Doe's encore was the perfect sorbet after a solid main course: a cool, chiselled take on Eve Castro-Robinson's White Interior.
Tobias Ringborg certainly made it so with Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra and the tingle of expectation running through a packed Auckland Town Hall augurs well for the Swedish maestro when he conducts NZ Opera's La Boheme next month.
After Barber's teasing flurries and darting wit, Rachmaninov's popular Second Piano Concerto dealt out more primal emotions, Russian style. Soloist Henry Wong Doe took on its many challenges with ease, totally unruffled by glittering passagework and bringing just the right heft to forests of chords.
There was admirable restraint in the Adagio sostenuto, making us forget its melody's later pop notoriety while reminding us that it is still one of music's most beautiful nocturnes this side of Chopin. Doe's encore was the perfect sorbet after a solid main course: a cool, chiselled take on Eve Castro-Robinson's White Interior.
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terrylev
Korngold Symphony
Barber -School for Scandal