Upbeat for Wednesday 4 March 2015

12:15 Felicity Lott & Gabriel Woolf

British soprano and actor preview their Love and Marriage performances

12:40 Ara Guzelimian

Dean of New York's Juilliard School visits New Zealand in association with the Kia Ora Foundation

1pm James Tibbles & Jacob Lawrence

Age of Discovery artistic director and guest tenor preview their Songs of Love and War performance

Music played in this show

RACHMANINOV: Symphonic Dances Op 45
Berlin Phil / Simon Rattle
Warner 9 84519

COWARD: Mad about the Boy
Felicity Lott (sop), Graham Johnson (pno)
Champs Hill Records CHRCD 003

SCHUMANN: Du Ring an meinem Finger
Felicity Lott (sop), Graham Johnson (pno)
IMP MCD 22 

BRAHMS: A German Requiem Op 45, Selig sind die Toten
Monteverdi Choir, Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique / John Eliot Gardiner
Soli Deo Gloria SDG 706

PINTSCHER: Transir
Emmanuel Pahud (fl), French Radio Phil / Matthias Pintscher
EMI 5 01226

MONTEVERDI: Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda
Ensemble Elyma / Gabriel Garrido
Signum SIGCD227