Bayleys Great Classics | Romantic Journeys

Start Date: Thursday 21 November 2024

Venue: Auckland Town Hall, Queen Street

Doors Open: 07:30pm

Time: 07:30pm - 09:30pm

Restrictions: All Ages

On holiday in Italy, Tchaikovsky collected folk tunes, bugle calls and dances, and tied them all loosely together in an exuberant confection.

If the Capriccio perhaps teeters rather splendidly on the edge of kitsch, his charming Rococo Variations is impeccably tasteful. Tchaikovsky adored Mozart and Haydn, and this delicate miniature cello concerto is his finest tribute to them.

Giordano Bellincampi brings more exuberance to finish the concert, in Schumann’s sunniest symphony. This is also holiday music, being inspired by an idyllic journey Schumann and his wife Clara took to the Rhineland.