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Upbeat for Thursday 20 November 2014

  • Louise Rive: Ceramic Artist

    1:11 PM.Louise Rive is the winner of the 2014 Premier Portage Award for Ceramic Arts. She tells Eva about her work. Audio

  • Peter Mechen: Conductor Harry Norris

    12:44 PM.Peter looks at some historical recordings from New Zealand opera and operetta conductor Harry Norris. Audio

  • Narek Hakhnazaryan: Cellist

    12:15 PM.Narek Hakhnazaryan is only in his mid-20s, but already he's performed with some of the world's finest orchestras and conductors. He's touring with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra in Tchaikovsky's… Read more Audio

12:15 Narek Hakhnazaryan

Cellist performing Tchaikovsky's Rococo Variations with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra

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12:40 Peter Mechen

Upbeat contributor on New Zealand music and musicians

1pm Louise Rive

Ceramic artist and winner of this year's Premier Portage Award

The Space Between Louise Rive
Louise Rive: The Space Between

Music played in this show

TCHAIKOVSKY: The Nutcracker, Scène dansante
Bergen Phil / Neeme Järvi
Chandos CHSA 5144

SCHUMANN: Scherzo, from Piano Quartet in Eb Op 47
Juho Pohjonen (pno), Erin Keefe (vln), Paul Neubauer (vla), Narek Hakhnazaryan (cello)
BBC Music BBCMM 369

SULLIVAN: On a Tree By a River, from The Mikado
Henry Lytton (bar), D'Oyly Carte Opera Orchestra / Harry Norris
Pearl GEMM CDS 9025/1-2

SULLIVAN: Then one of us will be a Queen. from The Gondoliers
Winifred Lawson (sop), Aileen Davies (mezzo), Derek Oldham (ten), George Baker (bar), D'Oyly Carte Opera Company Chorus and Orchestra / Harry Norris
Arabesque Z8058/1-2

SULLIVAN: Your Revels Cease, from The Mikado
Bertha Lewis (contralto), Derek Oldham (ten), Beatrice Elburn (mezzo), D'Oyly Carte Opera Company Chorus and Orchestra / Harry Norris
Pearl GEMM CDS 9025/1-2

SULLIVAN: More Humane Mikado, from of The Mikado
Darryl Fancourt (bass), D'Oyly Carte Opera Company Chorus and Orchestra / Harry Norris
Pearl GEMM CDS 9025/1-2

MENDELSSOHN: Symphony No 4 in A Op 90, Italian, Saltarello
Stuttgart Radio SO / Roger Norrington
Hänssler CD 93.133