Dreamscapes by NZTrio review

The NZTrio played contemporary American and New Zealand works magnificently at the International Festival.

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23rd March, 2012

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The NZTrio are in their 10th year. Perhaps because of the relatively few great works in the medium, compared with the string quartet, they play a lot of recent music. Most of the music at this International Arts Festival concert was written in the past two decades; probably nothing would have been familiar to the average,or even the sophisticated, music lover. Last year, I heard the trio play two movements from Kenji Bunch’s Swing Shift, a nocturnal New York impression. This time, Grooveboxes refers to a beatbox, used by DJs – terminology and technology that invades ...

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