{"id":49566,"date":"2025-09-29T06:23:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T06:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/49566\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T06:23:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T06:23:10","slug":"shiyeon-sung-leads-auckland-philharmonia-in-standout-tchaikovsky-performance-william-dart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/49566\/","title":{"rendered":"Shiyeon Sung leads Auckland Philharmonia in standout Tchaikovsky performance – William Dart"},"content":{"rendered":"
Tchaikovsky\u2019s song-like Adante was exquisite, Chua in symbiotic blend with the orchestra\u2019s woodwind; the high-powered finale, too, with maestra Sung at the helm, allowed moments of spellbinding tenderness.<\/p>\n
Chloe Chua, 18, captivates with virtuosity in Tchaikovsky\u2019s Violin Concerto. Photo \/ Auckland Philharmonia<\/p>\n
Chua\u2019s encore was a delight: \u201cAmazing Grace\u201d spun from bluesy wistfulness to virtuoso hoe-down.<\/p>\n
All this was particularly welcome after the evening\u2019s overture \u2013 the exceedingly dull Morning, Noon and Night in Vienna by Franz von Suppe, lightweight Viennese fare, rescued by Ashley Brown\u2019s elegant solo cello.<\/p>\n
After interval, the emphasis was on more stylish humour.<\/p>\n
Haydn\u2019s Symphony no 93 is a charming specimen of this composer\u2019s bracing and genial wit. With a few cheeky arpeggios in the first movement, the woodwind stepped up for an Allegro peppered with playful echoes and diversions.<\/p>\n
Scaled down orchestral forces balanced earthy vigour with classical refinement, the slow movement gracefully introduced by string quartet. A striding minuet and runaway finale pursued an infectious mood of irrepressible jollity.<\/p>\n
The Divertimento from Stravinsky\u2019s ballet The Fairy\u2019s Kiss shares much of Haydn\u2019s bonhomie and, with its many quotations from Tchaikovsky, it was an extremely thoughtful complement to a much-enjoyed concerto.<\/p>\n
Here we were treated to the precision and finesse of the best chamber music, as the musicians negotiated Stravinsky\u2019s swerving rhythms and shifting textures, their palpable pleasure in playing the score reflecting the composer\u2019s joy in paying tribute to one of his musical heroes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tchaikovsky\u2019s song-like Adante was exquisite, Chua in symbiotic blend with the orchestra\u2019s woodwind; the high-powered finale, too, with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49567,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[665,51,25759,43112,7875,43113,14030,156,2070,10053,78,22055,3025,111,139,69,6777,43108,43114,10903,43111,43106,43109,43107,43110,43115,5826,10744],"class_list":["post-49566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-around","tag-auckland","tag-concert","tag-concertos","tag-dart","tag-doubtlessly","tag-drew","tag-entertainment","tag-full","tag-house","tag-in","tag-leads","tag-most","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-performance","tag-philharmonia","tag-philharmonias","tag-popular","tag-programming","tag-shiyeon","tag-standout","tag-sung","tag-tchaikovsky","tag-tchaikovskys","tag-violin","tag-william"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49566","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=49566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}