{"id":8330,"date":"2025-09-07T18:17:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T18:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/8330\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T18:17:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T18:17:10","slug":"gemma-news-masterful-mahlers-sixth-captivates-with-new-zealand-symphony-orchestra-william-dart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/8330\/","title":{"rendered":"Gemma New\u2019s masterful Mahler\u2019s Sixth captivates with New Zealand Symphony Orchestra \u2013 William Dart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/author\/william-dart\/\" class=\"text-sys-text-dark underline underline-offset-3\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" data-test-ui=\"author--link\" target=\"_blank\">William Dart<\/a><\/p>\n<p>NZ Herald\u00b7<\/p>\n<p>7 Sep, 2025 06:00 PM2 mins to read<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">Gemma New leads the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra in a commanding performance of Mahler&#8217;s Sixth Symphony. Photo \/ NZSO<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Gemma New and the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra\u2019s finely shaded performance of Mahler\u2019s Sixth Symphony came across as another impressive instalment in what could well be their ongoing celebration of the Austrian composer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         2023\u2019s Third Symphony had many marvelling at New\u2019s incisive interpretation of Mahler at his most monumental; last<br \/>\n         year, their richly laid out Fifth penetrated the very soul of its composer from blistering fanfares to heartrending Adagietto.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"MFxmLElkspXO\" style=\"display:none\">Tonight, some may have been surprised at this conductor\u2019s customary precision and neatness unleashing the furious march of the Sixth\u2019s opening movement. Yet, within minutes, after a shimmering fall from major to minor and some woodwind translucence, we were captivated by the soaring theme associated with the composer\u2019s wife, Alma.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MFxmLElkspXO\" style=\"display:none\">This symphony reveals Mahler at his most volatile. While much of its musical language is unabashedly tonal for 1904, these 80 minutes host many wild and unpredictable diversions, navigated with consummate ease by New.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MFxmLElkspXO\" style=\"display:none\">While increased orchestral forces generated many pages of Mahlerian magnificence, there were also moments of exquisite intimacy, as heard in Vesa-Matti Leppanen\u2019s beautifully understated violin solos. Celesta, xylophone and tuba, two harps and a contingent of eight horns contributed significantly to the evening\u2019s luxuriant palette.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By William Dart NZ Herald\u00b7 7 Sep, 2025 06:00 PM2 mins to read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8331,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2840,9526,10751,10748,10741,9063,10752,124,7875,10746,10738,10749,10750,10740,10739,117,111,43,139,69,6379,10743,10745,6777,10747,4730,10742,165,6436,6923,10744,102,80],"class_list":["post-8330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-across","tag-another","tag-austrian","tag-came","tag-captivates","tag-celebration","tag-composer","tag-could","tag-dart","tag-finely","tag-gemma","tag-impressive","tag-instalment","tag-mahlers","tag-masterful","tag-new","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-ongoing","tag-orchestra","tag-orchestras","tag-performance","tag-shaded","tag-sixth","tag-symphony","tag-their","tag-well","tag-what","tag-william","tag-with","tag-zealand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8330","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=8330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}