Wayfarers
Music by Mozart, Mendelssohn & Mahler

On Sunday afternoon 14th September 2025, 3pm at The Piano, Resonance Ensemble, conducted by Tony Ryan, present another concert of well-known, if rarely heard music…

Mendelssohn’s Italian Symphony radiates warmth and vitality, drawing on Italy’s lively dance forms and folk songs. Mendelssohn’s creativity is evident, not only in this joyful and sunny symphony but also as a talented artist: the image above and on our posters is one of the composer’s Italian paintings of the Amalfi Coast.

Soprano Helen Charlton joins the orchestra for Mahler’s Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (Songs of a Wayfarer). In this cycle of four lyrical songs, Mahler wrote his own words based on German folk poetry.  These songs are among the most familiar and appealing of his vocal works, full of rhythmic variety and textural invention. 

Helen Charlton is an experienced Christchurch-based singer, performing regularly as a soloist and choral director. Born and raised in Christchurch, she attended Linwood High School for her senior years (with Conductor Tony Ryan as her Music Teacher!)
Helen graduated from Canterbury University with a music degree majoring in Performance Singing, and Massey University with a Graduate Diploma in Secondary School Teaching.

Our programme opens with Overture from Mozart’s magnificent German opera, The Magic Flute (Die Zauberflöte). Helen Charlton will also join the orchestra for Ach, ich fühl’s, from the opera, in which Pamina expresses her anxiety for Tamino’s safety.

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