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Two world premières evoke the spirit of Anzac Day in Auckland

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Reviewed at Auckland Town Hall: Great Hall, Auckland on 23 April 2015
Copland, Fanfare for the Common Man
Williams, Symphony No. 1 "Letters from the Front"
Vaughan Williams, Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
Ledger, War Music
Madeleine Pierard, Soprano
Benjamin Northey, Conductor
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra
New Zealand Youth Choir
George Henare, Actor
Joyce DiDonato’s Berlioz takes flight in Auckland
****1
A tale of two Stabat Maters in Auckland
***11
Gemma New conducts a superb Mahler 6 in Auckland
*****
Masaaki Suzuki and the NZSO take on classical music’s legends
*****
Astonishing Rachmaninov from Daniil Trifonov
*****
The orchestra shine in NZSO's Puccini Arias programme
***11
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