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2 Aug 2005 : Satisfying feasts for the ears
Fresh new works were on the menus of the NZ Trio and NZSO
The loyal audience for the New Zealand Trio was amply rewarded. An early Beethoven Trio, neatly delivered, welcomed guests and the programme concluded with superlative Schumann.
Fascinating strands of colour were unravelled in the dense textures of Schumann's D minor Trio; the players unflinchingly confronted the occasional stolid rhythms and luxuriated in the lingering Langsam.
Alongside the ebbing rhapsodies of Toru Takemitsu's Between Tides, Gillian Whitehead's new piano trio was as fresh as a mountain spring. Water images abounded. There were prismatic motifs and, some echoing Bartok, fierce bird-call cadenzas and ruffled trills, while the strings coalesced in perfect accord over strummed piano chords.
(Review continued critiquing NZSO concerts performed during the same week)
William Dart - The New Zealand Herald
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