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New Zealand SO: Schubert and Beethoven Symphonies plus Tchaikovsky and Gillian Whitehead. Presented by Georgia Mann.

Alongside popular favourites by Schubert and Tchaikovsky, the NZSO's concert with their new Principal Conductor in Residence, Christchurch-born Hamish McKeich, features the premiere of Gillian Whitehead's imaginative work marking the 250th anniversary of Captain Cook's first New Zealand landfall, at Turanga-nui (Gisbrone) in the northeast of the North Island. And the orchestra's Conductor Laureate Edo de Waart rounds off the week with possibly the most avant-garde symphony ever written: Beethoven's Choral Symphony.

Schubert: Symphony No 8 in B minor (Unfinished)
2.20pm
Tchaikovsky: Variations on a Rococo Theme
with Andrew Joyce (cello)
2.45pm
Gillian Whitehead: Turanga-nui (world première)
2.55pm
Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet – Fantasy Overture
New Zealand SO
Hamish McKeich

3.15pm
Beethoven: Symphony No 9 in D minor, Op 125
Madeleine Pierard (soprano)
Kristin Darragh (mezzo-soprano)
Simon O'Neill (tenor)
Anthony Schneider (bass)
Voices New Zealand
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra
Conductor Edo de Waart