...This was a most engaging performance, full of vitality, expressive intensity and a great commitment to the music, ensuring that the evening was a real joy for the audience throughout....
(Stephen Fisher, Manawatu Standard)
Taylor, Alex: refrain
Borodin, Alexander: String Quartet No 2 in D
Ritchie, Anthony: Whakatipua
A Kei-Jian & Zheng De-Ren 又称陕北道情 ， 阿克俭，郑德仁改编: Song of Emancipation 翻身道情
Ding Zhi-Nuo: Eternal Friendship 情深谊长
arr. Xiao-Zhi Huang 黄晓芝编: Camel Bell 驼铃
arr. Xiao-Zhi Huang 黄晓芝编: Happy Harvest 庆丰收
arr. Xiao-Zhi Huang 黄晓芝编: Song from the Heart 心中的歌
Zhu Jian-Er & Shi Yong-Kang: The Whitehaired Girl
Bax, Arnold: Quintet for Harp & Strings
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Next concerts

Tuesday, January 22 2019, 8:00pm - 10:00pm, Zhongshan Culture & Arts Centre, Zhongshan, China

An introduction to the string quartet through the ages, from Baroque to the present day. Our programme includes excerpts from works by Vitali, Mozart, Beethoven, Ligeti, Tan Dun & Gareth Farr. It finishes with a complete performance of Beethoven String Quartet No 13 in B-flat major Op 130
Thursday, May 2 2019, 7:30pm - 9:30pm, Princes Gate Hotel, Arawa St, Rotorua

Our programme starts with Mozart's String Quartet No 17 in B-flat K458. Nicknamed 'The Hunt, this is a high-spirited, joyful work, both rustic and sophisticated. It continues with String Quartet No 1 'Métamorphoses nocturnes' by Hungarian composer György Ligeti. Described by one writer as “Bartok's seventh string quartet”, this colourful work is written in seventeen wonderfully contrasting sections played as one continuous movement. The concert finishes with Beethoven's profound String Quartet No 13 in B-flat major Op 130, a piece that explores the limits of what can be expressed in music. This concert takes place in the Nellie Bud Room.