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14 Jun 2010 : NZTrio Among the Best
After their Concert Chamber performance yesterday, NZTrio left no doubt that they are among the best of our chamber music ensembles.
There was a fine understanding between the players, they had an exemplary polish and musicality, and they brought a strong sense of the character to each work in a programme which mixed two classical with two contemporary pieces.
Their light and relaxed approach to Mozart’s Trio in B flat made it pure enjoyment.
The Piano Trio of Jennifer Higdon, a celebrated contemporary American composer, is an impressionistic piece which studies the relationship between the colours red, yellow and their musical representation. Red was convincingly depicted by fiery and turbulent tones, while yellow, by contrast so introverted and much harder to describe, suffered by being in its musical shadow.
‘So Many Rivers’, a piece commissioned by the Trio from the New Zealand born composer Judy Bailey, sets out to depict influences in her life in musical terms. It had clever musical textures, a range of fascinating styles and influences, but some shape in the piece would have helped.
In Schumann’s Trio No. 2, the players caught effectively the moods of intimacy and Romantic yearning in the two middle movements, and the vibrancy of the faster movements.
Hanno Fairburn - Daily Post News, Rotorua
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