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Articles de Simon Holden

Simon Holden
Simon Holden
Simon is an operaphile based in Auckland, New Zealand. He wrote his dissertation on Japanese popular music. With a background in piano and classical music retail, he spends his time attending as much opera or vocal concert as he can and blogs at irishenceaway.blogspot.com.
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Gemma New and the NZSO travel through twentieth century music

Par Simon Holden, 29 octobre 2023
Centred around Scriabin’s mystical Poem of Ecstasy, a thrilling journey through the byways of twentieth century music takes in New Zealand, Finland and France.
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Gluck reimagined: (m)Orpheus in Auckland

Par Simon Holden, 07 septembre 2023
Gareth Farr re-orchestrates Gluck in Neil Ieremia's imaginative reinterpretation of the Orpheus myth for New Zealand Opera. 
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A masterful Così fan tutte in Auckland

Par Simon Holden, 02 juin 2023
Lindy Hume directs a refreshingly uncomplicated new staging for New Zealand Opera, supported by fine musical performances.
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Bach and Stravinsky lack clarity in Auckland's Holy Trinity Cathedral

Par Simon Holden, 30 avril 2023
Cavernous acoustics hamper individual lines in the latest concert in the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra's “Baroque and Beyond” series.
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A sublime Mahler 3 from Gemma New and the NZSO in Auckland

Par Simon Holden, 03 avril 2023
The strings brought gleaming tone to their long phrases, the cellos particularly gorgeous in tone and deeply felt in phrasing, and New built each restatement to glorious and emotional crushing climax. 
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The Wishing Tree: the Gesualdo Six at the Auckland Arts Festival

Par Simon Holden, 17 mars 2023
From the oppressed Catholic minority of 16th-century England to contemporary settings, The Gesualdo Six bring their Wishing Tree programme to Auckland. 
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A triumphant final chapter in the Auckland PO's Beethoven cycle

Par Simon Holden, 05 mars 2023
Much delayed by the pandemic, Giordano Bellincampi's Beethoven symphony cycle with the Auckland PO finally reaches its conclusion with a triumphant closing concert. 
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The Auckland Philharmonia takes audience to the New World

Par Simon Holden, 25 février 2023
New Zealand-born violinist Geneva Lewis soars in Samuel Barber's Violin Concerto, framed in Giordano Bellincampi's programme by Korngold and Dvořák.
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Unearthing New Zealand's lost art-song tradition

Par Simon Holden, 16 août 2022
In this part-concert and part-lecture, Michael Vinten chronicles the history or New Zealand art song through the lives of the composers and poets featured, stories alternately hilarious and tragic.
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The highest beauty imaginable: astonishing Prokofiev from Hilary Hahn and the NZSO

Par Simon Holden, 07 août 2022
Hahn balanced tranquility and ferocity in Prokofiev's First Violin Concerto, and conductor Gemma New drew out an especially nuanced reading of Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony.
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Requiem opens the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra's miniature Verdi Festival

Par Simon Holden, 10 juillet 2022
An excitingly theatrical Verdi Requiem under Giordano Bellincampi, benefitting greatly from a mostly stunning line-up of solo singers.
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Christian Li displays stunning virtuosity in Saint-Saëns and Ravel in Auckland

Par Simon Holden, 23 avril 2022
An astonishing showcase, with Christian Li tackling both works with technical skill and swagger that belied his tender age. 
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A taste of Vienna with the Auckland Philharmonia

Par Simon Holden, 10 juillet 2021
The slow movement is gorgeous in an unashamedly romantic fashion and Morrison, some moments of uncertain intonation aside, gave a poetic rendition, at times fining his sound down to the most exquisite filigree of sound. 
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A meeting of cultures in NZSO's Matariki concert

Par Simon Holden, 04 juillet 2021
A combination of Western orchestral tradition and traditional Māori culture proves a fascinating and a worthwhile contribution to New Zealand’s orchestral repertoire.
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A refreshing new Nozze di Figaro from New Zealand Opera

Par Simon Holden, 09 juin 2021
Lindy Hume directs a new production of Mozart's masterpiece which proves a constant delight.
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Simon O'Neill and the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra standouts in Fidelio

Par Simon Holden, 10 mai 2021
Giordano Bellincampi presides over a fleet and crisp performance of Beethoven's only opera, performed in Auckland Town Hall. 
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Inside out: Eight Songs for a Mad King in Auckland

Par Simon Holden, 13 mars 2020
The vocal part requires a range covering over five octaves, from the lowest bass notes to a high falsetto and Robert Tucker coped amazingly with the score’s lyrical elements and the various shrieking, whispering and clucking noises he was called upon to create.
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Juilliard 415 excels in French and Italian Baroque in Auckland

Par Simon Holden, 01 mars 2020
In each brief and catchy excerpt, the ensemble played with infectious vitality and admirable precision.
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Edo de Waart signs off with awe-inspiring Mahler in Auckland

Par Simon Holden, 25 novembre 2019
De Waart once again showed a formidable grasp of the musical structure so that the occasional outbursts of violence made thematic sense and a strong feeling of tension led up to the final cry of despair.
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NZSO's enthralling Salonen and Schubert

Par Simon Holden, 11 novembre 2019
Edo de Waart and the NZSO thrill with the old warhorse that is Schubert's ninth as much as in an insightful and exciting rendition of Salonen's Violin Concerto.
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