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New Horizons: The Taite Music Prize

12 May 2024

For his second NZ Music Month programme, William Dart looks back at the history of the Taite Music Prize as well as the hopefuls and winner of this year's big prize. Audio

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Wednesday 15 May

10:00 AM. Days

with Nick Tipping

Torke, Michael: East, Concerto for clarinet - Weixiong Wang (clarinet), Albany SO/David Alan Miller (Albany TROY1784)

McLeod, Jenny: Rock Concerto (3) - Eugene Albulescu (pno), Bridget Douglas (fl), New Zealand SO/Uwe Grodd (Naxos 8.572671)

Kernis, Aaron Jay: Air - Joshua Bell (vln), Minnesota Orch/David Zinman (Argo 460 226)

Bach, Johann Sebastian: Partita No 4 in D BWV828 - Michael Houstoun (pno) (RNZ UA36)

Ortiz, Diego: Recercada No 8 on La Folia - Latitude 37 (ABC Classics 476 4525)

11.00

Boccherini, Luigi: Guitar Quintet in D G448, Fandango - Kazuhito Yamashita (gtr), Tokyo String Quartet (RCA RD 60421)

Yin/Chu/Sheng/Liu arr Gang/ed Jie: Yellow River Piano Concerto - Chen Jie (pno), New Zealand SO/Carolyn Kuan (Naxos 8.570607)

Fauré, Gabriel arr Ma: Violin Sonata No 1 in A Op 13 (1) - Yo-Yo Ma (cello), Kathryn Stott (pno) (SONY SK 87287)

12.00

Traditional arr Flórez: La jarra de oro - Juan Diego Flórez (ten), Fort Worth SO/Miguel Harth-Bedoya (Decca 475 6932)

Spohr, Louis: Clarinet Concerto No 1 (3) - Andreas Ottensamer (cl), Rotterdam Philharmonic/Yannick Nézet-Séguin (DG 481 0131)

Liszt, Franz transcribed anon: Liebestraum No 3 in Ab - Ieuan Jones (harp) (Claudio CR 4939)

Dowland, John: Paduan - Parley of Instruments/Peter Holman (Hyperion CDA 66435)

Lilburn, Douglas: Prelude (1951) - Margaret Nielsen (pno) (MANU CD MANU 1511)

Vaughan Williams, Ralph orch Jacob: English Folk Song Suite - Royal Liverpool Phil/James Judd (Naxos 8.572304)

Einaudi, Ludovico: Gravity - Federico Mecozzi (vln), Ludovico Einaudi (pno), Redi Hasa (cello) (Decca 7744515)

Beethoven, Ludwig van: Sextet in Eb Op 81b (1) - Nash Ensemble (ASV GLD 4002)

Ford, Charmaine: Midnight Chardonnay - Charmaine Ford (pno), Nick Tipping (bass), Richard Wise (drums) (FORD MOTION FMR 9005)

1.00

Verdi, Giuseppe: Nabucco Overture - New Zealand SO/James Judd (RNZ )

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus: Piano Sonata No 14 in C minor K457 - Tony Chen Lin (piano) (RNZ )

Saint-Saens, Camille: Le Rouet d'Omphale Op 31 - Auckland Phil/Gilbert Varga (RNZ )

Ibert, Jacques: Flute Concerto - Melanie Lançon (flute), Auckland Phil/Giordano Bellincampi (RNZ )

Ravel, Maurice: Pavane for a Dead Princess - Auckland Phil/Giordano Bellincampi (RNZ )

Orff, Carl: Amor volat undique; Dies, nox et omnia; Stetit puella, from Carmina Burana - Natasha Te Rupe Wilson (sop), James Harrison (bar), combined Choirs Aotearoa, Nota Bella, Michael Stewart, Rachel Fuller (pianos), Brent Stewart (timp), Jeremy Fitzsimons, Eric Renick, Naoto Segawa, Ben Whitton, Camryn Nel (/Karen Gryll (RNZ 2022)

Dvořák, Antonín: Symphony No 8 in G Op 88 - Orchestra Wellington/Marc Taddei (RNZ 2018)

Puccini, Giacomo: O soave fanciulla, from La Bohème - Eliza Boom (sop), Simon O'Neill (tenor), New Zealand SO/Hamish McKeich (RNZ )

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