Pietari Inkinen returns to the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra
Pietari Inkinen returns to the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra in August for two programmes in Wellington, Auckland and Hamilton.
In Radiance, Pietari reunites with tenor Simon O’Neill for excerpts from Wagner’s Tannhäuser and Parsifal. The concerts take place at Wellington’s Michael Fowler Centre on 14 August and Auckland Town Hall on 21 August.
The following evening, Inkinen conducts an all-Finnish programme entitled Myths & Legends. NZSO Concertmaster Vesa-Matti Leppänen is the soloist in the New Zealand premiere of Magnus Lindberg’s Violin Concerto No. 2, framed by two works inspired by the Finnish national epic, the Kalevala: Sibelius’s Pohjola’s Daughter and Lemminkäinen Suite. Performances take place in Wellington on 15 August, Auckland on 22 August and Hamilton on 23 August.
Both Wellington concerts will be broadcast live on RNZ Concert:
Radiance: 14 August at 6:30pm local time / 8:30am CET / 9:30am in Helsinki
Myths & Legends: 15 August at 7:30pm local time / 9:30am CET / 10:30am in Helsinki
Link to listen: http://radionz-ice.streamguys.com/concert.mp3
“Scenes from the Ring” in Copenhagen
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Pietari Inkinen returns to KBS Symphony Orchestra
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Concerts in Tokyo and Nagoya
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