Delgani’s season finale, Intimate Letters, features landmark quartets from the 19th and 20th centuries. Janacek’s “Intimate Letters” is a portrait of passionate, unreciprocated love, seen through the hundreds of letters the composer exchanged with a much younger, married woman. The torment of love is an ever-present theme in Schubert’s music, especially in his lieder, which opens.
OPINION The Auckland Arts Festival and Chamber Music New Zealand’s Barton & Brodsky concert opened dramatically with William Barton’s didgeridoo framing a.
★★★★☆Every performance of Janacek’s Intimate Letters should sound like a nervous breakdown enacted simultaneously by four people following the instructions of a demented old man. Janacek was indeed an
A fascinating idea – an evening of music and dance reflecting the poem that was the starting point for Schoenberg’s famous piece alongside an unadorned performance of the work itself – doesn’t quite succeed