Janacek/ New Zealand String Quartet - String Quartets 1 & 2Jancek's final decade saw an almost unprecedented creative renewal during which he wrote some of his greatest works. Among them were his chamber music masterpieces, the two String Quartets. The first was inspired by Tolstoy's novella The Kreutzer Sonata, a torrid tale of adultery and murder to which Jancek responded with music of increasingly frenzied passion. The second was subtitled Intimate Letters, a freely evolving work full of yearning and

A quiet storm rider

"These songs explore worry and doubt and letting go

Jimi Hendrix)

" Jon observes

Sadies - Tremendous Efforts

Although the opera features eight solo roles

and Anna Karina

Ondolo transposed traditional instruments and rhythms to his guitar

with it's intimate

Argentina and most recently to Australia

His music has been celebrated over the last decade for it's "hallucinatory intensity" (New York Times)

The band's first two years consisted of busking