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2011 SUBSCRIPTION SERIES
Concert One -
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Concert Two - Fauré
Requiem | Concert Three - Mozart Requiem | Concert Four - Handel Messiah
Event One - Odes to Joy: Beethoven 9th Symphony
| Event Two - Carmina Burana
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It’s Chinese New Year and Auckland Choral brings you a FREE event showcasing highlights of the year. This inspirational and varied one-hour concert features something for everyone: the spine-tingling opening chorus from Carmina Burana, ‘Spring’ from Vivaldi’s Four Seasons and well-known music by Fauré and Mozart. A truly multicultural experience when we are joined by the Music Association of Auckland. Internationally renowned choral composer, David Hamilton conducts his Me he korokoro tui, a mix of Maori and English, contemporary and traditional. It speaks of being united together in song and refers to the tui, New Zealand’s most musical song-bird. Complete a balmy summer evening out with a visit to the Chinese Lantern Festival in nearby Albert Park!
Emma Roxburgh | Lilia Carpinelli | Lara Hall, Violin | Elizabeth Lau
The Music Association Auckland
Pipers Sinfonia
Auckland Choral
Uwe Grodd, Conductor
Friday 18 February, 6:30 pm
Auckland Town Hall
FREE ENTRY
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Emma Roxburgh |
Lilia Carpinelli |
Lara
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Elizabeth Lau |
Uwe Grodd |
The Journey was commissioned from Leonie Holmes for the Manukau Symphony Orchestra’s first performance in the TelstraClear Pacific Events Centre, Manukau, in 2005. The inspiration comes from the two texts used – a traditional Maori blessing, and a text by Tessa Stephens focusing on the themes of connection and togetherness. We feature 200 singers on stage as The Music Association of Auckland choir, who sang at the first performance, join us. A special journey not to be missed. Commissioned by the Manukau Symphony Orchestra, Robin Toan’s Sinfonia Concertante will have it’s world premiere. Toan is one of New Zealand’s leading young composers, with her works gaining international attention and awards. A perennially favourite choral work is Gabriel Fauré’s Requiem. This beautiful setting of the Mass uses sumptuous colours and beguiling orchestration to transfix the listener. At the centre is its most famous movement, the sublime soprano aria “Pie Jesu." Also part of the programme is Fauré’s Cantique de Jean Racine to complete this assortment of music that is, The Journey.
Emma Roxburgh | David Griffiths
Auckland Choral
Manukau Symphony Orchestra
Uwe Grodd, Conductor
Saturday 21 May, 7:30 pm
TelstraClear Events Centre, Manukau
Sunday 22 May, 5:00 pm
Auckland Town Hall
Bookings at The Edge
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Emma
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David Griffiths |
Uwe
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Mozart’s Requiem comes veiled in mystery and evokes in the listener a sense of wonder at the brilliance of its creator. The Requiem combines the luminous beauty of his last opera, The Magic Flute, with the stern solemnity of the great Viennese church music tradition. No Judgment Day has ever evoked a greater sense of terror nor have the grieving been afforded such consolation. Mozart began the work as the greatest composer of his time and left it incomplete as an immortal. Headlining this celebration of Mozart’s music are international soloists Susanna Risch, soprano from Germany and Lin Chung Guang, baritone from Taiwan. Joining them are Sarah Court and Kenneth Cornish, with Italian pianist Matteo Napoli and Emma Richards, horn.
Susanna Risch | Sarah Court | Kenneth Cornish | Lin Chung Guang
Pipers Sinfonia
Auckland Choral
Uwe Grodd, Conductor
Saturday 9 July, 7:30 pm
Auckland Town Hall
Bookings at The Edge
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Sarah Court |
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For many the Christmas season doesn’t start until Auckland Choral’s Messiah performance, an annual tradition for over 150 years. It was a ‘hit’ from its first performance and remains the most popular oratorio today. Top international soloists including the world-famous tenor Keith Lewis, and stylish Piper’s Sinfonia, join the choir to present Handel’s enduring popular oratorio under the baton of British conductor Brian Kay. Maestro Kay will be arriving direct from London where he will have conducted the Messiah with some 4000 musicians at the Albert Hall. Come and hear some of the greatest music of all time, telling one of the greatest stories of all time!
Katherine Wiles | Dean Sky Lucas | Keith Lewis | David Morriss
Pipers Sinfonia
Auckland Choral
Brian Kay, Conductor
Monday 12 December, 7:30pm
Tuesday 13 December, 7:30pm
Auckland Town Hall
Bookings at The Edge
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Tickets $50 - $60 Concessions available
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Katherine Wiles |
Dean Sky Lucas |
Keith Lewis |
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David Morriss |
Brian Kay |
EVENT 01 ODES TO JOY: BEETHOVEN 9TH SYMPHONY "CHORAL" *
Experience REVOLUTION with the NZSO.
New Zealand’s proud tradition of producing great voices continues into the next generation, and four of our modern greats are assembled here to perform the magnificent Ode to Joy. Beethoven’s intensely emotional expression of hope for mankind is the apotheosis of Romantic optimism, a work which your soul needs to hear to gain replenishment and exhilaration. It is paired with a specially-commissioned new work by Gareth Farr, revered among today’s composers for his ability to conjure spectacular and magical sound-worlds. An evening of uplifting music you won’t want to miss.
“. . . on a sudden, like the fleeting pleasures of life, or the spirited young adventurer, who would fly from ease and comfort at home to the inhospitable shores of New Zealand, we are snatched away from such eloquent music, to crude, wild and extraneous harmonies” The Quarterly Musical Magazine & Review - 1825, 1st British performance of Beethoven’s 9th symphony.
Madeleine Pierard | Sarah Castle | Simon O'Neill | Jonathan Lemalu
Auckland Choral
Voices New Zealand
Chamber Choir
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra
Pietari Inkinen, Conductor
Saturday 24 September,
2:00 pm
Auckland Town Hall
Bookings at The Edge; more information on NZSO.
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Sarah Castle |
Simon O'Neill |
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EVENT 02 CARMINA BURANA *
From Excalibur to Lord of the Rings: Two
Towers, Carl Orff’s iconic and unforgettable Carmina Burana has
featured in hundreds of movie soundtracks. Based on 24 medieval poems
with themes of lust, love and excess, the first and final movement O
Fortuna is the best known and there is nothing like hearing this
stirring masterpiece live! Roy Goodman is the conductor with soloists
including Penelope Mills (soprano), Benjamin Makisi (tenor) and Phillip
Rhodes (baritone) with Auckland Choral and a specially assembled
children’s choir. The concert will also feature Beethoven’s Eighth
Symphony.
“Everything I have written to date, and which you have, unfortunately, printed, can be destroyed. With Carmina Burana, my collected works begin.” – Carl Orff
Penelope Mills | Benjamin Makisi | Phillip Rhodes
Auckland Choral
Auckland Philharmonia
Orchestra
Roy Goodman, Conductor
Thursday 6 October,
8:00 pm
Friday 7 October, 8:00 pm
Auckland Town Hall
Bookings at The Edge; more information on APO.
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Penelope
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Benjamin Makisi |
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Phillip
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Roy
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* The special events: Beethoven 9th Symphony and Orff Carmina Burana are not included in the Auckland Choral Subscription Series.