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Stephen A Court/Supplied Under the direction of NZSO Concertmaster Vesa-Matti Leppänen, the orchestra’s performance of Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons was completely coherent – the poetry, the soloists, the orchestra, New Zealand Symphony Orchestra directed by Vesa-Matti Leppänen with Anna van der Zee, Malavika Gopal, Simeon Broom and Alan Molina (all violin). Music by Vivaldi and Piazzolla. Wellington College, May 8. Reviewed by Max Rashbrooke. I had low expectations, I’ll admit: what was yet another performance of Four Seasons going to tell me about this well-worn piece? Plenty of things, as it turned out. Things were livened up from the outset by readings from the poems that had originally accompanied Vivaldi’s composition. Another nice touch was to have one soloist per season, each of them drawn from the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra’s ranks. ....
AS TEMPERATURES plunged below zero a while ago, I lay in bed listening to the rattle of the boiler and thought of the frost scene from Henry Purcell’s King Arthur. This semi-opera “semi” because the main characters do not sing, that’s left to the show’s supernatural figures or drunks was premiered at the Queen’s Theatre in London in 1691 during the “little ice age” of the 17th century. The poet John Dryden had written an earlier version of the libretto in 1684 to mark the 25th anniversary of the restoration of Charles II and the 1691 production, with music by Henry Purcell, took place in May or June after another bitter winter. ....