Programmes and dates

New Zealand at Kings Place

Eight colours

New Zealand String Quartet (Hall One, 29 March 2012, 7.30pm)
Guest artist: Jonathan Lemalu, baritone

Jonathan Lemalu

Jonathan Lemalu

  • Mendelssohn – Capriccio in E minor Op 81 No 3 (1843)
  • Gao Ping – Three poems by Mu Xin for baritone and string quartet (UK premiere)
  • Jack Body – Three Transcriptions for string quartet
  • - Interval -
  • Tan Dun – Eight Colors for String Quartet (1986-88)
  • Beethoven – String Quartet No 1 in F major Opus 18 No 1

Death and the Maiden

New Zealand String Quartet (Hall One, 30 March 2012, 7.30pm)
Guest artist: Madeleine Pierard, soprano

  • Michael Norris – Exitus for string quartet
  • Ross Harris – The Abiding Tides for string quartet and soprano (poems by Vincent O’Sullivan)
  • - Interval -
  • Schubert – String Quartet No 14 in D minor D810 (“Death and the Maiden”)

Spiritual journeys

New Zealand String Quartet (Hall One, 31 March 2012, 7.30pm)
Guest artist: Richard Nunns, Taonga Puoro (Māori instruments)

Gourd

The sound of the gourd

  • John Psathas – Abhisheka
  • Gillian Karawe Whitehead – Hineputehue (“the woman of the sound of the gourd”) for string quartet and Taonga Puoro
  • - Interval -
  • Beethoven – String Quartet No 14 in C# minor Opus 131