Archive for October, 2010

Released second of three CDs of Mendelssohn’s String Quartets on the Naxos label.
US tour including debut in Library of Congress series.
North American tour of summer festivals and series including Parry Sound and Ottawa Festivals.
New Zealand ten centre tour of multidisciplinary performance of Haydn’s Seven Last Words from the Cross.
New Zealand six city tour [...]

The New Zealand String Quartet’s recent Schumann and Shostakovich tour in New Zealand delighted critics and audiences. Here you can enjoy two samples: the Quartet playing the second movement of Schumann’s String Quartet in A Minor Opus 41 No 1 and Shostakovich’s 7th String Quartet in F-sharp Minor Opus 108, both recorded in the Hunter [...]