Sound Lounge for Tuesday 19 November 2013

7:00 Resound 2013
Unlocking recordings of significant compositions from Radio New Zealand Concert's archive

GARDNER: A Study for Voicing Doubts – 175 East

James Gardner

CRESSWELL: Le Sucre du Printemps – Harry Sparnaay (bass/contrabass cls)

Lyell Cresswell

NORMAN: Ballad of Settler McGee – National Youth Choir, National Youth Concert Band, NZ Youth Jazz Orch, National Youth Pipe Band, National Youth Orch, Maori Ensemble, Rock Band

Philip Norman

(all recorded by RNZC)
(photographs of composers courtesy of SOUNZ, The Centre for New Zealand Music)

8:00 Auckland Arts Festival 2013

(3) Richard, Nunns, Horomona Horo (taonga puoro), NZTrio

FARR/NUNNS: Nga kete e toru
GAO PING: Su Xie Si Ti (Four Sketches)
CHEN YI: Tibetan Tunes
KELLY: Toi Huarewa/Suspended Way (world première performance)

(recorded in the Auckland Concert Chamber by RNZ)

(Programme 4, Thursday 8.00pm)

9:15 In tribute to John Tavener

Towards Silence, for four string quartets & large Tibetan temple bowl
Signum SIGCD 221

Akhmatova Requiem
Phyllis Bryn-Julson (sop), John Shirley-Quirk (bbar), BBC SO/Gennadi Rozhdestvensky
BBC Radio Classics 15656 91972

The World Is Burning
Monteverdi Choir, instrumentalists, John Eliot Gardiner
Philips 446 116

11:00 New Music Dreams

Malian kora players, Toumani Diabate & Ballake Sissoko’s New Ancient Strings
Hannibal 571428

Picture of a kora, courtesy of the World Instrument Gallery