Schedule for Sunday 18 March 2007

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12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

12:00 - Disc 1
MOZART: Violin Concertos No 1 in Bb K 207 & No 2 in D major K 211; Adagio in E K 261; Rondos in Bb K 269 & in C K 373 - James Ehnes (vln & dir), Mozart Anniversary Orchestra (CBC SMCD 5238)
1:10 (approx) - Disc 2
PINTO: Sonata in C minor; WEBER: Adagio Patetico in C# minor; FIELD: Sonata in Eb Op 1/1; CRAMER: Sonata in F Op 27/1; CLEMENTI: Capriccio in E minor Op 47/1 - Ian Hobson (pno) (Arabesque Z 6595)
2:25 (approx) - Disc 3
MOZART: Bass Arias from Le Marriage of Figaro, Magic Flute, Bastien and Bastienne and The Abduction from the Seraglio - Conal Coad,(bass), Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra/Dobbs Francks (ABC 432 697)
3:30 (approx) - Disc 4
LIEBERMANN: Album for the Young, excerpts; Sonata for flute and guitar Op25; Eight pieces for solo flute Op 59; Sonata for flute and harp Op 56; Solilquy for solo flute Op 44; Sonata for flute and piano Op23; A Poet and His Beloved Op 40 - Alexa Still (fl), David Korevaar (pno), Franco Platino (gtr), Victoria Drake (hp), Curt Peterson (ten), Yumi Hwang, Claude Sim (vlns), Erika Eckert (vla), Judith Glyde (cello) (Koch 3 7549)
4:40 (approx) - Disc 5
ROSS: Marching Strings; HOPE: Jaunting Car, from The Ring of Kerry; DUNCAN: High Heels; CURZON: Dance of an Ostracised Imp; FOULDS: Keltic Lament, from A Keltic Suite Op 29; WILLIAMS: Rhythm on Rails; COATES: By the Sleepy Laggoon; BENJAMIN: Jamaican Rumba; KETÈLBEY: In a Monastery Garden; WILLIAMS: A Quiet Stroll; FLETCHER: Demoiselle Chic, from Parisian Sketches No 1; BEAVER: Cavalcade of Youth; BAYCO: Elizabethan Masque; GARDINER: Shepherd Fennel Dance; ANCLIFFE: Thrills; ROSSE: The Doge's March, from The Merchant of Venice; COLERIDGE-TAYLOR: Petite Suite de Concert Op 77 - New London Orchestra/Ronald Corp (Hyperion CDA 67400)
5:00 AM. Sanctuary

NAREKATSI: About the bird - Anna Mailian (mezzo), Sharakan/Grigor Danielian (Celestial Harmonies 13116)
MONTEVERDI: Salve, O Regina (1624) - James Griffett (ten), Bradford Tracey (org) (RegisC 1065)
D SCARLATTI: Magnificat - Choir of King's College, Cambridge/Stephen Cleobury (EMI 5 57331)
VIVALDI: Sonata in B minor, Al Santo Sepolcro RV169 - Jane Rogers (vla), Cecelia Bruggemeyer (dbass), Purcell Quartet (Chandos CHAN 0714 X)
LAURIDSEN: Lux Aeterna - Nordic Chamber Choir/Nicol Matt, Jörg Halubek (org) (Bayer BR 100 305)
POULENC: Tout puissant; Seigneur, je vous en prie; O mes très chers frères, from Four short prayers of St Francis of Assisi - Christopher Bowen (ten), 1999 New Zealand Youth Choir/Karen Grylls (Trust MMT 2029)
SCHUBERT: Mass No 5 in Ab D678 - Sandra Trattnigg (sop), Lucia Schwartz (contralto), Bernhard Berchtold (ten), Christian Hilz (bass), Tölz Boys' Choir, Vienna Akademie/Martin Haselböck (Capriccio 71 086)
7:00 AM. Grace Notes

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Fantasia on Greensleeves - Tasmanian SO/David Stanhope (ABC Classics 472 984)
DEBUSSY: Danse sacrée et danse profane - Osian Ellis (harp), ASMF/Neville Marriner (ASV CD DCA 517)
DUPARC: L'Invitation au Voyage - Kiri Te Kanawa (sop), New Zealand SO/John Hopkins (Kiwi CD KML 2)
BACH: Second movement, Siciliano, from Flute Sonata in Eb BWV1031 - Aurèle Nicolet (fl), Karl Richter (hpschd) (ABC Classics 465 680)
BOLZONI: Minuet - Detroit SO/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHAN 9227)
CHOPIN: Waltz in Ab Op 69/1, L'adieu - Vladimir Horowitz (pno) (RCA 09026 63314)
DURUFLÉ: Ubi caritas - Peter Dyne (ten), Choir of Sacred Heart Cathedral, Wellington/Thomas Wilson (SHC SHC 75880)
FAURÉ orch Gaubert: Romance in Bb Op 28 - Chantal Juillet (vln), Montreal SO/Charles Dutoit (Decca 458 143)
MENDELSSOHN: Nocturne, from A Midsummer Night's Dream - New Zealand SO/James Sedares (RNZ)
8:00 AM. Composer of the Month

To mark the 150th anniversary of his birth, EDWARD ELGAR (1857-1934) is our Composer of the Month. Roger Lloyd presents the second of two programmes looking at Elgar's life and music (R 7.00pm Mon) (RNZ)
Concert Allegro - John Ogdon (pno) (EMI CDM 7 69889)
BACH orch Elgar: Fantasia & Fugue in C minor BWV537 - London Phil/Leonard Slatkin (RCA RD 87862)
9:00 AM. Saint Paul Sunday

Twenty-six programmes in which Bill McGlaughlin talks with chamber musicians in the studio
(11) David Finckel (cello), Wu Han (pno)
Portrait: The Wall Street Journal calls them "America's power couple of chamber music", but their fans just call them "wonderful." Cellist David Finckel and pianist Wu Han make a warmly anticipated return visit to Saint Paul Sunday this week for a programme that fully engages the duo's enthralling way of revealing the music from the inside out. Along with Brahms's first cello sonata and one of his beloved intermezzi for solo piano, we also hear heartfelt music of Edvard Grieg. The programme opens with "Portrait," a deft and lyrical work composed by David's own father, Edwin Finckel (AMP)
E FINCKEL: Portrait; GRIEG: Second movement, Andante molto tranquillo, from Cello Sonata in A minor Op 36; BRAHMS: Intermezzo in A Op 118/2; Cello Sonata No 1 in E minor Op 38 (American Public Media)
10:00 AM. The Works

MOZART: Violin Concerto No 1 in Bb K207 - Julia Fischer (vln), Netherlands CO/Yakov Kreizberg (PentaTone PTC 5186 094)
SIBELIUS: Symphony No 5 in Eb Op 82 - Swedish Radio SO/Sergiu Celibidache (DG 469 069)
11:00 AM. Pressing On

With Roger Wilson (R Fri 7.00pm) (RNZ)
Noon Vintage Years

STRAUSS: Don Juan Op 20 - Vienna Phil/Wilhelm Furtwängler (rec 1954) (EMI 5 62790)
VILLA-LOBOS: Bachianas Brasileiras No 5 - Victoria de los Angeles (sop), French National Radio Orch/Heitor Villa-Lobos (rec 1956) (EMI CDH 7 61015)
TURINA: Guitar Sonata Op 61 - Julian Bream (gtr) (rec 1956) (Testament SBT 1333)
RAVEL: Rapsodie espagnole - Czech Phil/Constantin Silvestri (rec 1953) (Supraphon SU 3514-2 001)
1:00 PM. The Sunday Feature

Known to family, friends and fans as "Flicka", Frederica von Stade is one of the world's most beloved mezzo-sopranos. She was in New Zealand last year to sing with her old friend Kiri Te Kanawa, and Christine Argyle took the opportunity to talk to her about her career of over 30 years (RNZ)
2:00 PM. Opera on Sunday

Metropolitan Opera Season
Twenty-two operas from New York's Metropolitan Opera House
(11) JANÁCEK: Jenufa, an opera in three acts
Jealousy, the death of a child, guilt and atonement set the stage for a stormy love story in Janácek's gripping opera about life in a rural Moravian village
Jenufa........................... Karita Mattila
Kostelnièka................... Anja Silja
Laca............................. Kim Begley
Steva............................ Jorma Silvasti
Metropolitan Opera Chorus & Orch/Jiri Belohlávek (EBU)
5:20 PM. Made in New Zealand

NZ musicians and composers
BEETHOVEN: Piano Trio No 2 in G Op 1/2 - Canterbury Trio (RNZ)
6:00 PM. New Horizons

Eleven programmes
(3) With William Dart (RNZ)
7:00 PM. Young New Zealand

Gisborne Music Competition 2006
Three programmes
(2) Kiri Birtles (fl), Matthew Rigby (vln), Yunzhi Ling (vln), Wen Zhu (vln), Grace Park (cello), Alice Higgins (cello), Tom Ward (gtr), with accompanists Rosemary Barnes and Stephanie Green (pno)
POULENC: Second & Third movements, Cantilena; Presto giocoso, from Flute Sonata; PROKOFIEV: Third movement, Allegrissimo, from Violin Sonata No 1 in F minor Op 80; RAVEL: Tzigane; WAXMAN: Carmen Fantasy; FRANCK arr for cello: Fourth movement, Allegretto poco mosso, from Violin Sonata in A; RACHMANINOV: Romance, from Morceaux de Salon Op 6; BROUWER: Hika "In Memoriam Toru Takemitsu"; PIAZZOLLA: Verano porteño (RNZ)
8:10 PM. Pappano's Tchaikovsky

Symphony No 5 in E minor Op 64 - St Cecilia National Academy Orch, Rome/Antonio Pappano (EMI 3 53258)
9:00 PM. Day's End

ROSSINI: String Sonata No 6 in D - members of Serenata of London (ASV CD DCA 767)
COPLAND: Old American Songs Set 2, The little horses; Zion's walls; The golden willow tree; At the river; Ching-a-ring Chaw - Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Utah SO/Michael Tilson Thomas (CBS MK 42140)
BRUCH: Romance in A minor Op 42 - Aaron Rosand (vln), North German Radio Phil/Christoph Wyneken (Vox VXP 7906)
WAGNER: Siegfried Idyll - Philharmonia/Otto Klemperer (EMI 5 62815)
11:00 ZAREBSKI: Les roses et les épines Op 13 - Marian Mika (pno) (CPO 777 193)
BUSONI: Violin Sonata No 2 in E minor Op 36a - Frank Peter Zimmermann (vln), Enrico Pace (pno) (Sony SK 94497)
11:00 PM. Music Through the Night

12:00 - Disc 1
MASSENET: Herodiade, Ballet Music; Orchestral Suite No 1; Orchestral Suite No 2, Scene Hongroises; Orchestral Suite No 3, Scenes Dramatiques - NZSO/Jean-Yves Ossonce (Naxos 8.553124)
1:15 (approx) - Disc 2*
DUARTE: Suite piemontese Op46; Toute en ronde Op 57; Musikones Op 107; English Suite Op 31; Variations on a Catalan folk-song Op 25; Birds Op 66; Homage to Antonio Lauro (Three Waltzes); Sonatinette Op 35 - Antigoni Goni (gtr) (Naxos 8.554554)
2:25 (approx) - Disc 3
SCHUMANN: Liederkreis Op 39 (Eichendorff) - Ian Partridge (ten), Jennifer Partridge (pno); Twelve Poems, Op 35 (Kerner) - Thomas Hemsley (bar) & Paul Hamburger (pno) (BBC MM 122)
3:40 (approx) - Disc 4
ELGAR: Serenade for strings in E minor, Op 20; MOZART: Serenade No 6 in D K 239; DVOÅ˜ÁK: Serenade for strings in E Op 22; VAUGHAN-WILLIAMS: Serenade to Music (orchestral version) - Soloists of Australia/Ronald Thomas, Strings of the Phil/Christopher Warren-Green; London Phil/Vernon Handley (Chandos CHAN 6526)
4:45 (approx) - Disc 5
COATES: The Merrymakers; London Suite; Cinderella; The Selfish Giant; London Again Suite; Calling All Workers; March, The Dam Busters - Czecho-Slovak Radio SO, Bratislava)/Adrian Leaper (Marco Polo 8.223445)