With Norris\u2019 almost terrifying crescendos, rivulets of cascading woodwind and percussion outbursts, as much Pacific Ocean as Black Sea, he did full justice to a similarly fine composition.<\/p>\n
There were more thrills to come at encore time, with Hall delivering Kenji Bunch\u2019s Next Train, in the manner of a breathtaking bluegrass breakdown. <\/p>\n
Orchestrally, the rest of the evening had been French, right through to a blistering Ravel Bolero, in which musicians seemed to be making an extra special effort to bring individual colour and nuance to their solos.<\/p>\n
Imaginative programming had opened the evening with Debussy\u2019s Printemps, an early work, reconstructed by his friend Henri Busser. <\/p>\n
Although conservative alongside the composer\u2019s later pieces \u2014 even L\u2019Apres-midi d\u2019un faune was seven years away \u2014 its unfailing stylishness and elegance was beautifully rendered, with the luxury of not one but two pianists sharing the Steinway.<\/p>\n
The meticulous Aadland illuminated the 18th century dalliances of Faure\u2019s Masques et Bergamasques with just the right crispness, burdened only by a dull minuet movement. <\/p>\n
However, a subtle and shapely Pastorale led to a palpable crowd-pleaser in the same composer\u2019s Sicilienne, featuring that exemplary flautist Melanie Lancon.<\/p>\n
This Thursday, the town hall hosts one of Auckland Philharmonia\u2019s innovative 6.30 concerts, with French conductor Pierre Bleuse, inviting us to luxuriate in the full romantic splendour of Tchaikovsky and Wagner . . . and still make that 8 o\u2019clock dinner date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With Norris\u2019 almost terrifying crescendos, rivulets of cascading woodwind and percussion outbursts, as much Pacific Ocean as Black…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":365484,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[191993,16580,95,51,682,191994,25759,92492,7875,17890,191992,105470,156,6101,57236,27501,78,5829,111,139,2551,69,9346,43108,43114,191995,15388,21410,26267,5911,2951,10744,4576,80],"class_list":{"0":"post-365483","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-aadland","9":"tag-amalia","10":"tag-and","11":"tag-auckland","12":"tag-being","13":"tag-bolero","14":"tag-concert","15":"tag-cuttingedge","16":"tag-dart","17":"tag-doubt","18":"tag-eivind","19":"tag-enjoyed","20":"tag-entertainment","21":"tag-good","22":"tag-hall","23":"tag-heard","24":"tag-in","25":"tag-many","26":"tag-new-zealand","27":"tag-newzealand","28":"tag-night","29":"tag-nz","30":"tag-packed","31":"tag-philharmonia","32":"tag-philharmonias","33":"tag-ravel","34":"tag-responsible","35":"tag-shine","36":"tag-substantial","37":"tag-tonight","38":"tag-town","39":"tag-william","40":"tag-work","41":"tag-zealand"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}