Sound Lounge for Tuesday 1 November 2011

7:00 - Happy Birthday

MATHIAS: Fanfare
Richard Lea (organ of Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral)
Priory PRCD 870

MATHIAS: Horn Concerto
David Pyatt (hn), Welsh CO/Anthony Hose
Metronome MET CD 1066

MATHIAS: Fanfare for KBL and Toccata Giocosa
Richard Lea (organ of Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral)
Priory PRCD 870

Welsh composer William Mathias (1934-1992) was born on 1 November in Whitland, Carmathenshire.

7:30 - Resound

New Zealand music from the RNZ archives introduced by Kenneth Young (3 of 10)

Lyell CRESSWELL: Violin Concerto (1970)
Alex Lindsay (vln), NZBC SO/Edwin Carr
(Recorded in RNZ's Wellington studios, 24 March 1971)

CRESSWELL: Prayer for the Cure of a Sprained Back
Jane Manning (sop)
Metier MSV CD 92014

8:01 - A quick little filler

CARR: Variations on a theme by Beethoven (excerpt)
Georgina Zellan-Smith (pno)
Zellan ZRCD 1001

8:05 - Direct from Auckland Town Hall

Ensemble Liaison with Wilma Smith

BEETHOVEN: Clarinet Trio in Bb Op 11, Gassenhauer
David Griffiths (cl), Svetlana Bogosavljevic (cello), Timothy Young (pno)

BARTÓK: Contrasts for violin, clarinet and piano
Wilma Smith (vln), David Griffiths (cl), Timothy Young (pno)

Interval music:
McLEOD: Tone Clock Pieces Nos 5, 1, 2, 8 & 9 (excerpt)
Jeffrey Grice (pno - 5,1,2) and Diedre Irons (pno - 8,9)
Waiteata WTA 005

MESSIAEN: Quartet for the End of Time
David Griffiths (cl), Wilma Smith (vln), Svetlana Bogosavljevic (cello), Timothy Young (pno)

10:11 - Post-Concert Reflections

MESSIAEN: L’Ascension
Bastille Opera Orch/Myung-Whun Chung
DG 449 377

BINGHAM: Ancient Sunlight
Tom Wimpenny (organ of St Albans Cathedral)
Naxos 8.572687

BALDWIN: Lullay my liking
Choir of Wellington Cathedral of St Paul/Michael Fulcher
Raven OAR-924

11:05 - New Music Dreams

DENNISON: Zoo
(Stingray, Owl, Angler, Llama, Cat, Antelope, The Secret History of Islands)
Tom Dennison (bass), Alex Freer (drums), Steven Barry (pno), Peter Koopman Jr (gtr), Roger Manins (sax)
Rattle RAT-J-1008