Power and Passion - New Zealand String Quartet with Jonathan Lemalu

This concert was reviewed by Peter Mechen, for Middle C, and can be view online here: http://middle-c.org/2012/03/strength-delicacy-and-deep-feeling-the-new-zealand-string-quartet-with-jonathan-lemalu/

New Zealand’s foremost chamber ensemble combines with the glorious baritone voice of Jonathan Lemalu for this programme of four stunning works.

Ross Harris Variation 25 for string quartet Samuel Barber String Quartet in B, Opus 11 Gao Ping Three Poems by Mu Xin for baritone and string quartet (World Premiere) Samuel Barber Dover Beach, Opus 3 for baritone and string quartet Dmitri Shostakovich String Quartet No. 9 in E♭, Opus 117