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Free concert of heavenly sounds
Free concert of heavenly sounds
Music lovers will be in heaven at the upcoming concert Sounds Celestial at the Auckland Town Hall this month.
Presented by the School of Music at the University of Auckland, in conjunction with the Auckland Philharmonia’s INSPIRE programme, the evening features a line-up of heavenly classical music.
“The evening has an incredibly beautiful programme - from the ethereal sounds of David Hamilton to the most tuneful melody from South America’s Villa Lobos and over to the luscious score of Mahler’s child’s vision of heaven – and with two magnificent sopranos as well,” says conductor Uwe Grodd.
The large-scale concert stars acclaimed conductor Uwe Grodd, sopranos Patricia Wright and Natasha Wilson, and the University of Auckland’s Symphony Orchestra, Massed Choir and Chamber Choir. Altogether this concert will feature some 220 musicians on stage in the sumptuous acoustics of the Auckland Town Hall.
Sounds
Celestial
30 September 2015
8-9.15pm
(75
minutes with no interval)
Auckland Town Hall
303 Queen
Street, Auckland Central
Free
admission.
Programme:
Hamilton,
Dance-Song to the Creator
This work was
commissioned for the International Summer School in Choral
Conducting in 1993. It is scored for two semi-choruses (SSA
and SATB) with a large mixed-voice choir. The accompaniment
is for piano duet and percussion. Two texts from different
spiritual traditions (the Latin 'Te Deum' and 15th century
India) offer complementary hymns of praise to both the
creator and to the power of music.
Villa-Lobos,
Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5
Scored for soprano
and orchestra of cellos (1938/45), Bachianas Brasileiras
No.5 is Villa-Lobos's best-known work - sung in
performance by Natasha Wilson.
Mahler, Symphony
No.4
The work is paired with Mahler's Fourth
Symphony, a work of transcendent beauty, that includes the
song Das himmlische Leben - a child’s vision of
heaven - sung in this performance by Patricia Wright, one of
New Zealand’s finest
sopranos.
Featuring:
University
Symphony Orchestra
Massed Choir
University Chamber
Choir
Natasha Wilson, soprano
Patricia Wright,
soprano
Uwe Grodd,
conductor
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