CMNZ Series: Four Last Songs - Hawke's Bay

This October, Chamber Music New Zealand is proud to tour Aotearoa's own NZTrio (Amalia Hall - violin, Somi Kim - piano, Matthias Balzat - cello) and Australian soprano Emma Pearson in Four Last Songs, a concert reflecting on the nature of goodbyes, endings, and renewals.

Named for Strauss' Four Last Songs which he wrote towards the end of his life — now arranged for piano trio and soprano — the songs reflect on the serene acceptance of mortality and a closeness with nature.

The concert also features Salina Fisher's Kintsugi, about the Japanese art of putting broken ceramics back together with gold and celebrating the beauty of a life not unmarred by difficulty, but made more beautiful by the resilience of overcoming hardship.

PROGRAMME

🎶 Elena Kats-Chernin | The Spirit and the Maiden
🎶 Salina Fisher | Kintsugi
🎶 Amy Beach | 2 Songs Op. 100 A Mirage and Stella Viatoris
🎶 Sergei Rachmaninoff | Vocalise
🎶 Richard Strauss (arr. Salina Fisher) | Four Last Songs (Vier letzte Lieder) TrV 296

You may also like the following events from Chamber Music New Zealand:

• This Wednesday, 8th October, 09:30 am, Chamber Music NZ - Four Last Songs in Auckland
• This Saturday, 11th October, 09:30 am, CMNZ Series: Four Last Songs - Wellington in Wellington
• This Sunday, 12th October, 06:00 am, CMNZ Series: Four Last Songs - Palmerston North in Palmerston North

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