NEW ZEALAND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, founded in 1946, is the country’s premier professional orchestra. Administered by Radio New Zealand until 1989, it now functions as a government-owned Crown Entity. It has an establishment of ninety players and performs over a hundred concerts annually. Touring within New Zealand looms large in the orchestra’s activities. All its main symphonic programmes are presented in Auckland and Wellington, but the orchestra visits some thirty New Zealand towns and cities annually. Given New Zealand’s geographical isolation, overseas tours are relatively infrequent. In 2005 the orchestra undertook a highly successful tour that included performances at the BBC Proms, the Concertgebouw, Snape Maltings and the World Expo at Aichi in Japan. Prior to this, the orchestra was last in Europe in 1992 to play at the World Expo in Seville. It has appeared in Australia, New Caledonia, and Osaka in Japan where, in 2003, it opened the second Asia Orchestral Week. James Judd was appointed Music Director in 1999. Other conductors who have worked with the NZSO during his tenure include Alexander Lazarev, Dimitri Sitkovetsky, David Atherton, Yan Pascal Tortelier, Edo de Waart, and Matthias Bamert. Soloists who have worked with the orchestra recently include Lynn Harrell, Lang Lang, Hilary Hahn, Vadim Repin, Peter Donohoe, Steven Isserlis, Stephen Hough, Jonathan Lemalu and Dame Kiri Te Kanawa. The NZSO has an extensive catalogue of CD recordings. It makes one CD of New Zealand music annually, as part of a commitment to promote and encourage music by New Zealand composers. A notable recent release features Jonathan Lemalu in a range of operatic repertoire. The orchestra has a strong relationship with Naxos, recording repertoire as diverse as Elgar (three discs), Ferdinand Ries, Beethoven, Bernstein, Copland, Lilburn, Sculthorpe, Frank Bridge, Akutagawa, Mendelssohn, Honegger, Liszt, and Vaughan Williams. Over half a million of these CDs have been sold internationally in the last decade and they have received critical acclaim. NZSO discs (Hummel, Elgar and Bernstein) were chosen for the Editor’s Choice section of The Gramophone in 2004.

For further information visit www.nzso.co.nz

Albums featuring this artist are available for download from ClassicsOnline.com
ADAGIO CHILLOUT	8.556783
AKUTAGAWA: Ellora Symphony / Trinita Sinfonica / Rhapsody	8.555975
ANTILL: Corroboree / Outback Overture	8.570241
Art & Music: Manet - Music of His Time	8.558117
BERNSTEIN: Symphony No. 1 / Concerto for Orchestra	8.559100
BEST OF BRITISH	8.570573-74
BEST OF BRITISH LIGHT MUSIC	8.570575-76
BIZET (THE BEST OF)	8.556671
BIZET: Symphony in C Major / Jeux d'enfants	8.553027
BIZET: Symphony in C Major / L'Arlesienne / Jeux d'Enfants	8.553278
BRIDGE: Sea (The) / Enter Spring / Summer	8.557167
BRITTEN: Sinfonia da Requiem, Op. 20 / 4 Sea Interludes	8.553107
BRUCKNER: Symphony No. 6 , WAB 106	8.553453
'Butterfly Lovers' Music and Dance Film (NTSC)	2.220002
CHEN / HE: Butterfly Lovers Violin Concerto (The) / BREINER: Songs and Dances from the Silk Road	6.110082
CHEN / HE: Butterfly Lovers Violin Concerto (The) / BREINER: Songs and Dances from the Silk Road	8.225972hdcd
CHEN / HE: Butterfly Lovers Violin Concerto (The) / BREINER: Songs and Dances from the Silk Road	8.557348
CINEMA CLASSICS 2004	8.556813
CLASSICAL MEDITATION	8.570364-65
CLASSICAL MOMENTS 3: Classical Music to Relax to	8.555359
CLASSICAL MOMENTS 5: Classical Music to Dine to	8.555361
COPLAND: Symphony No. 3 / Billy the Kid	8.559106
DELIUS (THE BEST OF)	8.556837
DELIUS: Paris / Brigg Fair / Eventyr / Irmelin / La Calinda	8.553001
DISCOVER OPERA	8.558196-97
Discover the Classics, Vol. 2	8.554246-47
DISCOVER THE SYMPHONY (1998 edition)	8.554337-38
DISCOVER THE SYMPHONY (2008 edition)	8.558208-09
ELGAR (THE VERY BEST OF)	8.552133-34
ELGAR: Enigma Variations / Pomp and Circumstances Marches, Nos. 1-5	8.571026
ELGAR: Marches	8.557273
ELGAR: Orchestral Miniatures	8.557577
ELGAR: Wand of Youth / Nursery Suite	8.557166
EXTREME CLASSICS	8.557941-42
GERSHWIN: American in Paris (An) / Porgy and Bess	8.559107
GERSHWIN: An American in Paris / Porgy and Bess / Rhapsody in Blue	8.571028
GOODWIN: Drake 400 Suite / New Zealand Suite	8.223518
GREENSLEEVES - English Pastoral Music	8.557535
HINDEMITH: Mathis der Maler / Symphonic Metamorphosis	8.553078
HONEGGER: Symphony No. 3, 'Liturgique' / Pacific 231 / Rugby	8.555974
HUMMEL: Missa Solemnis / Te Deum	8.557193
HUMMEL: Missa Solemnis / Te Deum	8.557572
KANAWA, Kiri Te: Portrait (A) (PAL)	100226
KRAUS: Violin Concerto / Olympie / Azire	8.570334
LILBURN: Orchestral Works	8.557697
LILBURN: Symphonies Nos. 1 - 3	8.555862
LISZT: Symphonic Poems, Vol. 2	8.553355
LISZT: Symphonic Poems, Vol. 3	8.557846
LISZT: Symphonic Poems, Vol. 4	8.557847
MAJESTIC JOURNEY - Original Works for Euphonium and Orchestra	8.570538
MARCHES (FAMOUS)	8.553596
MASSENET: Orchestral Suites Nos. 1- 3 / Herodiade	8.553124
MASSENET: Orchestral Suites Nos. 4 - 7	8.553125
MAYUZUMI: Bugaku / Mandala Symphony / Rumba Rhapsody	8.557693
PANDA CLASSICS (3CD box set)	8.503204
PILGRIM'S PROGRESS: PIONEERS OF AMERICAN CLASSICAL MUSIC	8.559200
RACHMANINOV / SHOSTAKOVICH: Piano Concertos	8.554677
RAUTAVAARA: Symphony No. 8, "The Journey" / Manhattan Trilogy / Apotheosis	8.570069
REGER: Mozart Variations Op. 132 / Hiller Variations Op. 100	8.553079
RIES: Piano Concertos, Vol. 1	8.557638
Russian Ballet Favourites	8.554063
SCULTHORPE: Earth Cry / Piano Concerto / Kakadu	8.557382
SHOSTAKOVICH (THE BEST OF)	8.556684
SHOSTAKOVICH (THE VERY BEST OF)	8.552129-30
SHOSTAKOVICH: Dmitry Shostakovich - A Portrait (WHITEHOUSE)	8.558188-89
SHOSTAKOVICH: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 2	8.553126
SIBELIUS: Scenes historiques I and II / King Christian II Suite	8.570068
STORY OF AMERICAN CLASSICAL MUSIC (THE)	8.558164-65
STRAVINSKY: Igor Stravinsky - A Portrait (NICE)	8.558186-87
STRAVINSKY: Symphonies	8.225918
STRAVINSKY: Symphony in C / Symphony in Three Movements	8.553403
SVEN GORAN ERIKSSONS - Klassiska Favoriter	8.503135
THE ULTIMATE LULLABY COLLECTION	8.570514-15
THOMSON, V.: Symphonies Nos. 2 and 3 / Symphony on a Hymn Tune	8.559022
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS (Eternal)	8.572080
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS (THE BEST OF)	8.556835
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Fantasias / Norfolk Rhapsody / In the Fen Country / Concerto Grosso	5.110053
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Fantasias / Norfolk Rhapsody / In the Fen Country / Concerto Grosso	8.555867
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Fantasias / Norfolk Rhapsody No. 1 / In the Fen Country	6.110053
WITH LOVE TO YOU	8.557789
YAMADA: Symphony in F Major, 'Triumph and Peace'	8.555350
YAMADA: Symphony in F Major, 'Triumph and Peace'	8.555350J