Magnificent: The New Zealand String Quartet makes a guest appearance in the Great Hall of the Goettingen Chamber Music Society
Young composers who follow the “established” names of contemporary music often have difficulty finding a wide audience. Chinese composer, Gao Ping, born 1970, and living in New Zealand, is lucky to have, in the New Zealand [...]
Archive for October, 2008
Outstanding breadth of expressive capabilities
Sounds of the Maori on whale bones
Spectacular start in the Freylinghausen Chamber
Even the opening gesture is part of the programme. When the New Zealand String Quartet walked on to the stage of the gratifyingly full Freylinghausen Chamber and instead of sitting down, set up the instruments in a standing position, the audience already had an inkling of the vitality and playfulness [...]
