Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra performed the first of its 2018 “APO on the Shore” concerts at the Bruce Mason Centre on 23 February. With the APO’s Music Director Giordano Bellincampi conducting, the orchestra performed a concert of favourite classics: Wagner’s Siegfried Idyll, Mendelssohn’s ever-popular Symphony No.4 and Schumann’s Violin Concerto. With outstanding German violinist Veronika Eberle playing the concerto on the ‘Dragonetti ‘ Stradivarius from 1700 (on loan to her from the Nippon Music Foundation), this was the highlight of the concert, and her performance was rewarded with enthusiastic applause from the audience.