Name: Resonance - Auckland
Start: 2026-04-10T09:30:00+12:00
Location: Auckland Town Hall

Conductor André de Ridder returns for a concert featuring Shostakovich’s poignant reflection on the tragedy of war, and a NZ premiere performance featuring trombonist David Bremner.
Programme:
Ravel Pavane pour une infante défunte
Bryce Dessner Concerto for Trombone
Shostakovich Symphony No. 8
André de Ridder appears with generous support from The Diessl Family.
Ravel’s Pavane pour une infante défunte, (Pavane for a Dead Princess), despite its title, is not a funereal procession but rather a sublime and delicate portrait.
It evokes the luminescent paintings of Diego Velázquez, with music that glitters.
From such an exquisite miniature, we launch the NZ premiere of a trombone concerto from the brilliant American composer Bryce Dessner, featuring NZSO Principal Trombone David Bremner.
Shostakovich described his Eighth Symphony as an “attempt to reflect the terrible tragedy of war”. Composed in 1943, it is amongst his most complex, meaningful and personal works. An immense symphony that speaks of the despair of the individual against industrialised violence, the final movement finds its way towards the light and remains a clarion call for peace.