Schedule for Sunday 5 August 2007

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12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

12:00 - Disc 1
ELGAR: Cockaigne Overture; DELIUS: Summer Evening; BUTTERWORTH: A Shropshire Lad; The Banks of Green Willow; FINZI: Suite from Love's Labours - English Symphony Orchestra/William Boughton (Nimbus NI 5210)
1:05 (approx) - Disc 2
NIELSEN: String Quartets, in G minor Op13; in F Op44; String Quintet in G - Kontra Quartet, Philipp Naegele (vla) (BIS CD 504)
2:25 (approx) - Disc 3
BUSNOIS: Missa L'home armé; Anima mea liquefacta est; Domarto: Missa Spiritus almus; Busnois: Gaude celestis domina; PULLOIS: Flos de spina - Binchois Consort/Andrew Kirkman (Hyperion CDA 67319)
3:45 (approx) - Disc 4
STRAVINSKY: Petrushka, 1947 version; Tango; MUSSORGSKY: Pictures at an Exhibition - James Crabb, Geir Draugsvoll (accordions) (EMI CDZ 5 69705)
4:50 (approx) - Disc 5
Enchanting Melodies from Victorian and Edwardian Times - Alan Etherden (pno) (HMP CD 0589)
6:00 AM. Sanctuary

BRAHMS: Blessed are ye faithful souls - Robert Noehren (organ of Church of St Jude, Detroit, Michigan) (Delos DE 3227)
TARONATSI: Deep mystery, eternal mystery; SIUNETSI arr Erazhisht: My heart is trembling - Anna Mailian (mezzo), Sharakan/Grigor Danielian (Celestial Harmonies 13116)
VIVALDI: Filiae maestae Jerusalem - Andreas Scholl (countertenor), Ensemble 415/Chiara Banchini (dir) (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1571)
ELGAR: O salutaris hostia; Ave Maria Op 2/2; Ave verum corpus Op 2/1; Ecce sacerdos magnus - Choir of Westminster Abbey/James O'Donnell, Robert Quinney (org) (Hyperion CDA 67593)
STROZZI: Salve Regina - Maria Cristina Kiehr (sop), Concerto Soave (L'Empreinte Digitale ED 13048)
BACH arr Hess: Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring, from Cantata No 147, Bist du bei mir - Nancy Allen (harp) (EMI CDM 7 69070)
LISZT: Via Crucis - Netherlands Chamber Choir/Reinbert de Leeuw (dir/pno) (Philips 416 649)
ELGAR: O hearken Thou Op 64 - Choir of Westminster Abbey/James O'Donnell, Robert Quinney (org) (Hyperion CDA 67593)
GIBBONS: Songs of hope - Tonus Peregrinus/Antony Pitts (org/dir) (Naxos 8.557681)
8:00 AM. Grace Notes

BARBER: Adagio for Strings - Philadelphia Orch/Eugene Ormandy (EMI 7 94431)
BEETHOVEN: First movement, Adagio sostenuto, from Piano Sonata No 14 in C# minor, Moonlight - Rudolf Buchbinder (pno) (Warner Classics 8573 80438)
RACHMANINOV: Ave Maria, from Vespers Op 37 - Sydney Philharmonia Symphonic Choir/Antony Walker (ABC 465 684)
BACH orch Barbirolli: Sheep may safely graze, from Cantata No 208, Was mir behagt, ist nur die muntre Jagd! - BBC SO/Leonard Slatkin (Chandos CHSA 5030)
G CHARPENTIER: Depuis le jour, from Louise - Kiri Te Kanawa (sop), Orch of Royal Opera House, Covent Garden/Jeffrey Tate (EMI 5 57231)
DVORÁK arr Lutz: Humoresque in Gb Op 101/7 - I Salonisti (London 458 382)
PARADIS: Sicilienne in Eb - Pinchas Zukerman (vln), Marc Neikrug (pno) (Philips 416 158)
GRAINGER: Irish Tune from County Derry - Monteverdi Choir/John Eliot Gardiner (Philips 446 657)
HONEGGER: Pastorale d'été - Tonhalle Orch, Zurich/David Zinman (Decca 455 352)
9:00 AM. Composer of the Week

Simon Romanos looks at the life and music of HENRI
DUTILLEUX (b 1916) (R Mon 7.00pm) (RNZ)
Timbres, espace, mouvement avec interlude - BBC Phil/Yan Pascal Tortelier (Chandos CHAN 9504)
Résonances - Anne Queffélec (pno) (Virgin 5 45222)
10:00 AM. Chamber Music at Lincoln Centre

Thirteen programmes hosted by Elliott Forrest, with commentary by the Chamber Music Society's Artistic Director, David Finckel, recorded in New York City
(5) RAVEL: Introduction & Allegro - Carmit Zori, Timothy Fain (vlns), Richard O'Neill (vla), Sophie Shao (cello), Tara Helen O'Connor (fl), Alan Kay (cl), Nancy Allen (hp)
MILHAUD: Suite for violin, clarinet & piano - Alexander Fiterstein (cl), Tai Murray (vln), Adam Neiman (pno) FAURÉ: Piano Quartet No 1 in C minor op 15 - Phillippe Graffin (vln), Paul Neubauer (vla), Gary Hoffman (cello), André-Michel Schub (pno) (WFMT)
11:00 AM. The Works

SPOHR: Symphony No 5 in C minor Op 102 - Czecho-Slovak State Phil/Alfred Walter (Marco Polo 8.223363)
BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata No 23 in F minor, Appassionata - John Lill (pno) (ASV CD QS 6061)
Noon Pressing On

With Amelia Nurse (R Fri 7.00pm) (RNZ)
1:00 PM. Vintage Years

SCHUBERT: String Quartet No 10 in Eb D87 - Amadeus Quartet (rec 1955) (DG 474 730)
HANDEL: Violin Sonata in G minor HWV368 - Alfredo Campoli (vln), George Malcolm (hpschd) (rec 1952) (Testament SBT 1358)
SALMANOV: Symphony No 2 in G - Leningrad Philharmonia/Evgeny Mravinsky (rec 1960) (IM Lab IMLCD 073/74)
2:00 PM. The Sunday Feature

The World of Robert Schumann
Thirteen programmes in an epic series that has been over 20 years in the making. Host, John Tibbetts, recognized something in the music and in the man that "spoke" to him in special ways. Since its inception in 1983 as a few programmes with narration and music, The World of Robert Schumann now includes dramatizations, interviews, critical comment and hundreds of musical excerpts
(6) The Romantic Piano: A Symposium of Pianists
Schumann's piano music is discussed and played by many eminent concert pianists, including Eugene Istomin, Joerg Demus, Peter Frankl, John Browning and György Sandor. Extended analyses of the Toccata Op 7, and Songs of the Dawn (WFMT)
3:00 PM. Opera on Sunday

Euroradio Opera Season
Thirteen operas from major houses in Britain, Austria and Italy
(7) STRAUSS: Arabella, an opera in three acts
Arabella.................................. Adrianne Pieczonka
Zdenka................................... Genia Kühmeier
Mandryka............................... Thomas Hampson
Matteo................................... Michael Schade
Count Waldner....................... Wolfgang Bankl
Adelaide................................. Daniela Denschlag
Count Elemer.......................... John Dickie
Count Dominik....................... Adrian Eröd
Count Lamoral........................ Johannes Wiedecke
Fiakermilli............................... Daniela Fally
Fortune-Teller......................... Janina Baechle
Vienna State Chorus & Orch/Franz Welser-Möst (recorded on 9 December 2006 by Austrian Radio)
5:30 PM. In Memoriam

STRAUSS: Metamorphosen - Vienna Phil/Simon Rattle (EMI CDS 5 56580)
6:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

NZ musicians and composers
ARNOLD: Sonatina for clarinet & piano - Mark Walton (cl), Paul Bateman (pno) (Chalumeau EBY 001)
ADAMS: Hallelujah Junction - Tzenka Dianova, Sarah Watkins (pno duo) (RNZ)
STRAVINSKY: Symphonies of Wind Instruments - wind players of the New Zealand SO/En Shao (Naxos 8.553403)
CURTIS: Klezmer Wedding - Kate Ingram-Robertson (alto sax), Saxcess (Saxcess)
COPLAND: Quiet City - Philip Lloyd (tpt), Alison Jepson (cor anglais), Auckland Sinfonietta/Peter Scholes (PMI L 282)
7:00 PM. New Horizons

(6) William Dart takes a look at the new Wilco album Sky Blue Sky and a release featuring the three albums from the late 60s by The Youngbloods (RNZ)
8:00 PM. Young New Zealand

40th National Concerto Competiton
Joo Hae Kim, Leigh Kereopa, Tony Lin (pnos), Christchurch Symphony/William Southgate
MENDELSSOHN: Piano Concerto No 1 in G minor Op 25; MACDOWELL: Piano Concerto No 2 in D minor Op 23; TCHAIKOVSKY: Piano Concerto No 2 in G Op 44
(recorded in the Christchurch Town Hall on 10 March 2007 by RNZ)
9:45 PM. Night Music

KOECHLIN: Towards the Starry Vault Op 129 - Stuttgart Radio SO/Heinz Holliger (Hänssler CD 93.106)
10:00 PM. Day's End

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Concerto Grosso - New Zealand SO/James Judd (Naxos 8.555867)
LISZT: Réminiscences de Don Juan - Julian Reynolds, Peter Lockwood (pno duo) (Globe GLO 5153)
DELIUS: Sea Drift - Thomas Hampson (bar), Welsh National Opera Orch & Chorus/Charles Mackerras (Argo 430 206)
11:00 PM. PAGANINI: Violin Concerto No 2 in B minor Op 7, La campanella - Salvatore Accardo (vln), London Phil/Charles Dutoit (DG 437 210)

CRAS: Quintet for flute, harp & string trio - Linos Harp Quintet (Hänssler CD 93.175)