The NZSO’s Music Director Emeritus James Judd conducts an uplifting programme that invites us to question the range of emotions lurking beneath the music’s smiling surface.
James Judd conducting the NZSO at the Michael Fowler Centre Photo: Latitude Creative/NZSO
Strauss’ entertaining orchestral suite Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme was inspired by a seventeenth-century satire on social climbing, while Shostakovich’s witty Symphony No 9 is a work that subverted the expectations of a regime.
And to celebrate 20 years of the Todd Young Composers Programme, there are two new works inspired by youth and the spirit of adventure, written by young Kiwi composers Henry Meng and Sai Natarajan, both alumni of the Todd Young Composers Awards.
Programme
Henry MENG: Fanfare
STRAUSS: Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme
Sai NATARAJAN: We Long for an Adventure
SHOSTAKOVICH: Symphony No 9 in E flat
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra/James Judd
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra/James Judd
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra/James Judd
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra/James Judd
Producer: David McCaw
Sound Engineer: Darryl Stack
Recorded at the Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington by RNZ Concert
