Upbeat for Monday 15 December 2014

12:15 Yvonne Todd

Photographer talks about Creamy Psychology: an exhibition at City Gallery Wellington and a book on Victoria University Press

Yvonne Todd, Frenzy, 2006; Light jet print, 1080 x 1350

12:40 The Critic's Chair

Robert Johnson looks at a recent Beethoven recording with pianist Leif Ove Andsnes

1pm David Burchell & Claire Barton

City Choir Dunedin conductor and soloist preview Gloria! A Baroque Christmas

Music played in this show

RACHMANINOV: Prelude in C# minor Op 3/2
Sergei Rachmaninov (pno roll)
Telarc CD 80489

BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No 5 in Eb Op 73, and Choral Fantasia Op 80
Leif Ove Andsnes (pno/dir), Mahler CO
Sony 88843 05886

BACH: Cantata No 133, Ich freue mich in dir
Robin Blaze (countertenor), Gerd Türk (ten), Peter Kooy (bass), Concerto Palatino, Yukari Nonoshita (sop)     Bach Collegium Japan / Masaaki Suzuki 
BIS  SACD 1481 

VIVALDI: Qui sedes ad dexteram Patris, from Gloria
Margaret Cameron (mezzo), English Baroque Soloists / John Eliot Gardiner
Philips 462 597   

M-A CHARPENTIER: In nativitatem Domini Nostri Jesu Christi
Taverner Consort & Players / Andrew Parrott
EMI CDC 7 54529