NZTrio | Dramatic Skies: Stratus (Nathan Homestead)

Additional performances:

April 18th (Auckland Town Hall)

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Rachmaninoff | Trio élégiaque No. 1 in G minor
Haydn | Piano Trio in G Major, Hob XV:25
Suk | Elegie in D flat Major, Op. 23
Claire Cowan | Ultra Violet
Reuben de Lautour | an auscultation of water (new commission)
Chausson | Trio in G minor, Op. 3

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Stratus is the first of our 2021 subscription series. It begins by enveloping us in a foggy blanket of sound, with the dark, sumptuous depths of Rachmaninoff’s Trio élégiaque and Suk’s yearning Elegie, sandwiched around the cosy, rustic nature of Haydn’s sunny G Major trio. Claire Cowan’s Ultra Violet shimmers through the spectrum with its millions of colours; in Reuben De Lautour’s new commission an auscultation of water we sink into the undulations of an aquatic heart beat; and we ascend again, evaporating into the melancholy, linear architecture of the Chausson Trio, reminiscent of Aotearoa’s eponymous threads of clouds hugging the horizon.

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