Sunday 21 October 2007 Rātapu 21 Whiringa-ā-nuku 2007

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  12:00 - Disc 1

  MENDELSSOHN: Overtures, The Hebrides; Fingal's Cave; A Midsummer Night's Dream; SUPPÉ: The Light Cavalry; Poet & Peasant; BERLIOZ: Le Corsaire; RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Russian Easter Festival Overture; GERSHWIN: Cuban Overture - Montreal SO/Charles Dutoit (Decca 430 741)

  1:10 (approx) - Disc 2

  MARTINU: Sinfonietta Giocosa; Toccata e Due Canzoni; Sinfonietta La Jolla - Julian Jacobson (pno), Bournemouth Sinfonietta/Tamas Vasary (Chandos CHAN 8859)

  2:25 (approx) - Disc 3

  HOLST: The Cloud Messenger Op 30; The Hymn of Jesus - Della Jones (mezzo), London Symphony Chorus & Orch/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 8901)

  3:35 (approx) - Disc 4

  VIVALDI: Four Seasons, Spring; MASSENET: Méditation, Thaïs; SATIE: Gymnopédie No 1; VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: The Lark Ascending; DEBUSSY: The Girl with the Flaxen Hair; BACH: Violin Sonata No3 in C BWV1005, Fourth movement; KREISLER: Praeludium and Allegro; BACH: Es ist genug, so nimm, Herr; Cantata, O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort; TRAD: Danny Boy; Scarborough Fair; KENNEDY: Melody in the Wind; MONTI: Csárdás; VIVALDI: Four Seasons, Autumn - Nigel Kennedy (vln), English CO, London Voices, City of Birmingham SO/Simon Rattle, John Lenehan (pno), Jonathon Gandelsman (vln), Robert Brophy (vla), Reinhard Armleder (cello), Kroke (EMI 5 57330)

  4:45 (approx) - Disc 5

  LLOYD: Piano Concerto No 4; The Lily-Leaf & the Grasshopper; The Transformation of that Naked Ape - Kathryn Stott (pno), London SO/George Lloyd (Albany AR 004)

• 6:00 AM. Sanctuary

  BUSNOIS: Anthoni usque limina - New London Chamber Choir/James Wood (Amon Ra CD SAR 56)

  MORALES: Parce mihi Domine - Anders Paulsson (sax), Erik Westberg Vocal Ensemble/Erik Westberg (Opus 3 CD 19506)

  MOZART: Church Sonatas, in F K224; in A K225 - Johan Kracht, Henk Rubingh (vlns), Wim Staesser (cello), Brian Pollard (bsn), Margaret Urquhart (dbass), Peter Hurford (organ of Bethlehem Church, Papendrecht, Holland) (Decca 421 297)

  Italian Motets to the Virgin Mary

  BASSANI: Corda lingua in amore; GRANDI: O quam tu pulchra es; BASSANI: Sonata Prima (instrumental); GRANDI: O intemerata; MATTIOLI: Ave Regina coelorum; CASATI: Sanctissima Virgo; COLONNA: O coeli devota - Philippe Jaroussky (countertenor), Marie-Nicole Lemieux (contralto), Ensemble Artaserse (Virgin 3 44711)

  J FARMER: The Lord's Prayer; G HEWSON: Let us now praise famous men - Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin/Mark Duley, Andrew Johnstone (org) (Priory PRCD 639)

  HAYDN: Mass No 11 in D minor, Nelson Mass - Letizia Scherrer (sop), Roxana Constantinescu (contralto), Maximilian Schmidt (ten), Michael Nagy (bass), Stuttgart Gächinger Kantorei, Stuttgart Bach-Collegium/Helmut Rilling (Hänssler CD 98.279)

• 8:00 AM. Grace Notes

  WAGNER: Liebestod, from Tristan & Isolde - Philadelphia Orch/Christian Thielemann (DG 453 485)

  DEBUSSY: Clair de lune, from Suite bergamasque - James Galway (fl/dir), Marisa Robles (harp), CO of Europe (RCA RD 87173)

  KHAPANTSI: In praise of the beauty of a rose - Armenuhi Seiranian (sop), Naira Kajoyan (fl), Sharakan Grigor Danielian (Celestial Harmonies 13116)

  RAVEL arr Salzedo: Piece in the form of a Habanera - Dawn Harms (vln), Carolyn Mills (harp) (Atoll ACD 199)

  TRAD arr Hope: The lark in the clear air - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland (ASV White Line CD WHL 2155)

  CHOPIN: Mazurka in F minor Op 68/4 - Jean-Yves Thibaudet (pno) (Decca 466 357)

  HANDEL: Care selve, from Atalanta - Arleen Augér (sop), Mostly Mozart Orch/Gerard Schwarz (Delos CD 3026)

  TCHAIKOVSKY: Sérénade mélancolique in B minor - Yehudi Menuhin (vln), Royal Phil/Adrian Boult (EMI 5 62523)

  DELIUS: Walk to the Paradise Garden, from A Village Romeo & Juliet - ASMF/Neville Marriner (Decca 421 631)

• 9:00 AM. Composer of the Week

  Emma Sayers looks at the life and music of GYÖRGY KURTÁG (b1926) (R Mon 7.00pm) (RNZ)

  Ommaggio a Luigi Nono - South West German Radio Vocal Ensemble/Marcus Creed (Hänssler CD 93.174)

  Movement for viola & orchestra - Kim Kashkashian (vla), Netherlands Radio CO/Peter Eötvös (ECM 1711)

• 10:00 AM. Mozart Moments

  John Drummond explores ten crucial times in Mozart's life and career

  (2) Mozart becomes a professional (January 1770 - March 1771)

  Wolfgang and his father made an important trip to Italy at this time. Mozart was fourteen, hitting adolescence, and could no longer be regarded as a child prodigy. On this trip he encountered some of the world's leading professional musicians, graduating with a music diploma in Bologna and another in Verona, and earning the respect both of cultured patrons and fellow-professionals. He also obtained his first major commissions and gained a new name (RNZ)

• 11:00 AM. The Works

  SIBELIUS: Pohjola's Daughter - London SO/Colin Davis (LSO Live LSO 0605)

  DVORÁK: Cello Concerto in B minor Op 104 - Yo-Yo Ma (cello), New York Phil/Kurt Masur (Sony SK 67173)

• Noon Pressing On

  With Julie Sperring (R Fri 7.00pm) (RNZ)

• 1:00 PM. Vintage Years

  FARNON: Portrait of a Flirt (rec 1948); GREEN: Horse Feathers (rec 1947); CURZON: Dance of an Ostracised Imp (rec 1948) - Queen's Hall Light Orch/Sidney Torch (EMI 5 66676)

  SCHUMANN: Papillons Op 2 - Wilhelm Kempff (pno) (rec 1951) (Decca 433 404)

  SUK: Fairy-tale Op 16 - Czech Phil/Václav Talich (rec 1949) (Supraphon SU 3822)

• 2:00 PM. The Sunday Feature

  The Second Exile

  The publication of the second volume of Stephen Walsh's biography of Igor Stravinsky brought fresh interest in the role of Robert Craft in the composer's life. Walsh describes Craft's writings on Stravinsky and his family as "riddled with bias, error, supposition, and falsehood". Presented by Murray Khouri (RNZ)

• 3:00 PM. Opera on Sunday

  Opera in English

  VERDI: Nabucco, an opera in four parts

  Nabucco....................... Alan Opie

  Ismael........................... Leonardo Capalbo

  Zachariah...................... Alastair Miles

  Abigail.......................... Susan Patterson

  Fenena.......................... Jane Irwin

  High Priest of Baal......... Dean Robinson

  Abdullah....................... Paul Wade

  Anna............................. Camilla Roberts

  Opera North Chorus & Orch/David Parry (Chandos CHAN 3136)

• 5:20 PM. From the Old Testament

  HANDEL: Esther, Overture - James Tibbles (organ of Ponsonby Baptist Church, Auckland) (Atoll ACD 406)

  SIBELIUS: Belshazzar's Feast, Suite - Gothenburg SO/Neeme Järvi (BIS CD 359)

  W LLOYD WEBBER: Pastorale, By the waters of Babylon - Jane Watts (organ of St Paul's Cathedral, Wellington) (Priory PRCD 775)

  SAINT-SAËNS: Bacchanale, from Samson & Delilah - Paris Opera Orch/Georges Prêtre (EMI 3 82233)

• 6:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ musicians and composers

  CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO: Sonatina for flute & guitar Op 205 - Carol Hohauser (fl), Matthew Marshall (gtr) (Mr M Productions)

  HAMILTON: Lux aeterna - Voices New Zealand/Karen Grylls (Trust MMT 2065)

  MAREK: Serenade for violin & orchestra - Ingolf Turban (vln), Philharmonia/Gary Brain (Koch Schwann 3-6440)

• 7:00 PM. New Horizons

  Eleven programmes

  (2) William Dart looks at new CDs from Feist and Dot Allison and a recently released greatest hits collection from Ani DiFranco (RNZ)

• 8:00 PM. Young New Zealand

  Ben Morrison (vln), Allison Cormack (sop), Wellington Youth Orch/Marc Taddei, Owen Clarke

  RAVEL: Boléro; BRAHMS: Violin Concerto in D Op 77; MAHLER: Fourth movement, Sehr behaglich, from Symphony No 4 in G (recorded in the Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington by RNZ)

• 9:15 PM. Recent Chamber Releases

  SCHUBERT: Forgotten Sonata in C D916b - Sebastian Knauer (pno) (Berlin Classics 1616 BC)

  BEETHOVEN: Violin Sonata No 3 in Eb Op 12/3 - Midori Seiler (vln), Jos van Immerseel (fpno) (Zig Zag ZZT 070 802)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  DELIUS: Brigg Fair, An English Rhapsody - Boston Pops Orch/John Williams (Philips 420 946)

  VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Willow-Wood - Roderick Williams (bar), women's voices of the Royal Philharmonic Choir, Royal Liverpool Phil/David Lloyd-Jones (Naxos 8.557798)

  KREISLER: Schön Rosmarin; Liebesleid; Liebesfreud - Arthur Grumiaux (vln), István Hajdu (pno) (Philips 446 560)

  FIBICH: At Twilight Op 39 - Prague Radio SO/Frantisek Vajnar (Supraphon C37 7909)

  11:00 KRAUS: Flute Quintet in D VB184 - Lena Wemen (baroque fl), Jaap Schröder, Per Sandklef (vlns), Björn Sjögren (vla), Kari Ottesen (cello) (Musica Sveciae MSCD 415)

  MOZART: String Quartet No 15 in D minor K421 - Cleveland Quartet (Telarc CD 80297)

Next day - Mon 22

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