Auckland Arts Festival
Gerda BLOK-WILSON: O Little Rose O Dark Rose
Performed by The Gesualdo Six at their Auckland Arts Festival concert, 'The Wishing Tree', Holy Trinity Cathedral, 15 March 2023. Audio
Alison WILLIS: The Wind's Warning
Performed by The Gesualdo Six at their Auckland Arts Festival concert, 'The Wishing Tree', Holy Trinity Cathedral, 15 March 2023. Audio
Joby TALBOT: The Wishing Tree
Performed by The Gesualdo Six at their Auckland Arts Festival concert, 'The Wishing Tree', Holy Trinity Cathedral, 15 March 2023. Audio
GIBBONS: The silver swan
Performed by The Gesualdo Six at their Auckland Arts Festival concert, 'The Wishing Tree', Holy Trinity Cathedral, 15 March 2023. Audio
ARCADELT: Il bianco e dolce cigno
Performed by The Gesualdo Six at their Auckland Arts Festival concert, 'The Wishing Tree', Holy Trinity Cathedral, 15 March 2023. Audio
GESUALDO: Asciugate i begli occhi
Performed by The Gesualdo Six at their Auckland Arts Festival concert, 'The Wishing Tree', Holy Trinity Cathedral, 15 March 2023. Audio
PALESTRINA: Io son ferito, ahi lasso
Performed by The Gesualdo Six at their Auckland Arts Festival concert, 'The Wishing Tree', Holy Trinity Cathedral, 15 March 2023. Audio
MARENZIO: Potrò viver io più se senza luce
Performed by The Gesualdo Six at their Auckland Arts Festival concert, 'The Wishing Tree', Holy Trinity Cathedral, 15 March 2023. Audio
BYRD: Vigilate
Performed by The Gesualdo Six at their Auckland Arts Festival concert, 'The Wishing Tree', Holy Trinity Cathedral, 15 March 2023. Audio
SHERYNGHAM: Ah, Gentle Jesu
Performed by The Gesualdo Six at their Auckland Arts Festival concert, 'The Wishing Tree', Holy Trinity Cathedral, 15 March 2023. Audio
TALLIS: Te lucis ante terminum; BYRD: Ave verum corpus; BYRD: Afflicti pro peccatis nostris
Performed by The Gesualdo Six at their Auckland Arts Festival concert, 'The Wishing Tree', Holy Trinity Cathedral, 15 March 2023. Audio
The live premiere performance of Victoria Kelly's Requiem
Performed by Jayne Tankersley, Simon O'Neill, Luminata Voices and the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Vincent Hardaker at the Auckland Arts Festival concert 'Requiem', Auckland Town Hall… Video, Audio
MAHLER: Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen
Performed by Simon O'Neill and the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Vincent Hardaker at the Auckland Arts Festival concert 'Requiem', Auckland Town Hall, 11 March 2023. Audio
DEBUSSY: Nocturnes
Performed by the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra with Luminata Voices conducted by Vincent Hardaker at the Auckland Arts Festival concert 'Requiem', Auckland Town Hall, 11 March 2023. Audio
Ruby SOLLY: Ātahu
Performed by Maianginui and the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Vincent Hardaker at the Auckland Arts Festival concert 'Requiem', Auckland Town Hall, 11 March 2023. Audio
New music to celebrate 100 years of Forest & Bird
Eight composers, eight performers, nine new works. Auckland Arts Festival concert Force of Nature brings nature alive through the language of music. Audio
Dancing the stories of Australia's great desert regions
Between the 1920s and 1960s many Aboriginal people from Australia's great Western Desert and Kimberley regions were removed from their country and forced into hard labour on livestock stations… Audio
Choreographer Crystal Pite on creating dance inspired by real-life events
In 2015 an estimated 1.3 million refugees poured into Europe, many of them from war-torn Syria. It inspired Crystal Pite to tell their story in her own way - by creating a contemporary ballet for them… Audio
Premiere: Where Will They Bury My Bones?
Marking two years since New Zealand's borders were closed this new composition from Gareth Farr is dedicated to New Zealanders all over the world who were lost or forever changed by the Covid-19… Video, Audio
Amanda Parer's 'Fantastic Planet'
The renowned Australian visual artist Amanda Parer is bringing 'Fantastic Planet' - giant inflatable luminous white 'humanoids' who land at different sites across the globe - to Auckland as part of… Audio