Monthly Archives: June 2017

2017 Concert Series: Dvorak, Brahms, Weber

After his stunning performance of Sibelius’ Violin Concerto in 2016, we are delighted to welcome back NZSO concertmaster Vesa-Matti Leppänen, here joined by NZSO principal cellist Andrew Joyce in Brahms’ late masterwork – the double concerto. Dvořák’s masterful seventh symphony is regarded by many music critics as his greatest. Inspired by the struggle for a Czech homeland, the music is often dark and stormy, yet with moments of sheer vibrance and, eventually, triumph. It is nothing less than Dvořák at his finest.

Waiapu Cathedral of St John the Evangelist, Browning Street, Napier
7.30pm Saturday 6 August
Vesa-Matti Leppänen: violin | Andrew Joyce: cello
Hawke’s Bay Orchestra
José Aparicio: conductor

Tickets
Beattie and Forbes, Ahuriri / Wardini Books, Napier/ Take Note, Havelock North
Door Sales
Adult $39 or $75 choral plus orchestral concert, Student $15 each concert
EFTPOS available

2017 Concert Series: Haydn’s Creation

Of a performance of Handel’s Messiah, Haydn remarked that he “was struck as if he had been put back to the beginning of this studies and known nothing up until that moment”. His Creation was his response: an oratorio depicting no less than the creation of the world itself, as told in Genesis. The result of years of study and work, and immediately successful, it now stands as one of his greatest triumphs. Haydn’s Creation was the first work performed by the Napier Civic Choir under musical director José Aparicio, in 2011, and it is very special for us to be able to programme it again.
Waiapu Cathedral of St John the Evangelist, Browning Street, Napier
7.30pm Friday 4 August & 2.30pm Sunday 6 August
Anna Leese: soprano
Filipe Manu: tenor
Joel Amosa: bass
Hawke’s Bay Orchestra
José Aparicio: conductor

Tickets
Beattie and Forbes, Ahuriri / Wardini Books, Napier/ Take Note, Havelock North
Door Sales
Adult $39 or $75 choral plus orchestral concert, Student $15 each concert
EFTPOS available