New Zealand Symphony Orchestra

All Tickets are Mobile Ticket Only. Mobile Tickets are like Print-at-Home tickets but instead of having to print off the tickets yourself, you can just show the barcode on your mobile phone. It is the easiest way to access tickets to your events. For more information visit Ticketmaster.co.nz/mobileticket Shostakovich's Chamber Symphony is an arrangement of his Eighth String Quartet, written after he saw the aftermath of the apocalyptic 1945 bombing of Dresden. Though he dedicated the Quartet to "victims of fascism and war," in his later memoir, Testimony, Shostakovich said that the Quartet actually described himself. The Adagio of Bruckner's String Quintet was lauded as "the pearl of the quintet […] one of the noblest, most enlightened, tenderest and most beautiful in sound." Tchaikovsky's Andante cantabile is similarly a movement from a string chamber work, which Tchaikovsky arranged for cello and string orchestra.