Sunday 18 May 2008 Rātapu 18 Haratua 2008

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  12:00 - Disc 1

  BORODIN: In the Steppes of Central Asia; Symphony No 1 in Eb; Symphony No 2 in B minor - Royal Phil/Vladimir Ashkenazy (Decca 436 651)

  1:10 (approx) - Disc 2

  KREISLER: La Gitana; TARTINI: Violin Concerto in A D96, Andante; TCHAIKOVSKY: Sérénade Mélancolique; BRAHMS: Scherzo, from FAE Sonata in C minor; SCHUMANN: Violin Sonata in A minor WoO27, Intermezzo; CHOPIN: Nocturne in C# minor Op posth; ELGAR: Salut d'Amour; GLUCK: Orpheus and Euridice, Melody; BLOCH: Baal Shem, Nigun; MASSENET: Méditation from Thaïs; SARASATE: Playera Op 23/1; RACHMANIOFF: Vocalise Op 34/14; KREISLER: Caprice viennois Op 2; DEBUSSY trans Heifetz: Beau Soir - Robin Wilson (vln), Kemp English (pno) (Manu CD MANU 5006)

  2:20 (approx) - Disc 3

  We'll Keep a Welcome

  The Welsh Album - Bryn Terfel (bar), Meinir Heulyn, Katherine Thomas (harps), Bryan Davies (pno/org), Black Mountain Chorus, Risca Male Choir, Orch of the Welsh National Opera (DG 463 593)

  3:40 (approx) - Disc 4

  GRIEG: Violin Sonatas, No 1 in F Op 8; No 2 in G Op 13; No 3 in C minor Op 45 - Dong-Suk Kang (vln), Roland Pöntinen (pno) (BIS CD 647)

  4:50 (approx) - Disc 5

  17th Century Music from the Publications of John Playford - David Douglass (vln), Paul O'Dette (theorbo), Andrew Lawrence-King (harps) (Harmonia Mundi HMU 90 7186)

• 6:00 AM. Sanctuary

  BRYARS: Laude novella; Ave regina gloriosa - Trio Mediaeval (ECM 1869)

  SCHUBERT: Ave Maria D839 - Ben Baker (vln), Julian Dyson (pno) (Ben Baker BBCD 01)

  Gott ist mein Hirt D706 - Karin Pohl, Brigitte Domhardt (sops), Claudia Graswurm, Astrid Pilzecker (contraltos), Bernd Casper (pno) (Capriccio 71 050)

  MARTIN: Mass for double choir - Phoenix Bach Choir, Kansas City Chorale/Charles Bruffy (Chandos CHSA 5045)

  BACH trans Fretwork: Fugue in Eb BWV552b, St Anne - Fretwork (Harmonia Mundi HMU 90 7395)

  TALLIS: O sacrum convivium; MESSIAEN: O sacrum convivium - Atlanta SO Chamber Chorus/Norman Mackenzie (Telarc CD 80654)

  HANDEL: Chandos Anthem No 5, I will magnify thee - Lynne Dawson (sop), Ian Partridge (ten), The Sixteen Choir & Orch/Harry Christophers (Chandos CHAN 0504)

  GURDJIEFF arr Hartmann/Lechner/Tsabropoulos: Chant from a Holy Book; Prayer - Anja Lechner (cello), Vassilis Tsabropoulos (pno) (ECM 1888)

  HOLST: Two Psalms - Christopher Mercer (ten), Holst Singers & Orch/Hilary Davan Wetton, John Birch (org) (Hyperion CDA 66329)

• 8:00 AM. Grace Notes

  O LINDBERG arr Milone: Andante, from Gammal fäbodspsalm - Alison Balsom (tpt), Gothenburg SO/Edward Gardner (EMI 3 53255)

  BRAHMS: Intermezzo in Eb Op 117/1 - Stephen Kovacevich (pno) (Philips 422 268)

  PUCCINI: Vissi d'arte, from Tosca - Kiri Te Kanawa (sop), National Phil/Georg Solti (Decca 417 645)

  MOZART: Third movement, Adagio, from Serenade No 10 in Bb K361, Gran Partita - Concerto Cologne/Anton Steck (Archiv 477 5800)

  STAINER: God so loved the world, from The Crucifixion - Choir of St John's College, Cambridge/George Guest (Decca 425 849)

  VIOTTI: Second movement, Adagio, from Harp Sonata in Bb - Nicanor Zabaleta (harp) (DG 415 893)

  GIORDANO: Amor ti vieta, from Fedora - Luciano Pavarotti (ten), National Phil/Oliviero de Fabritiis (Decca 425 681)

  VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: The Lark Ascending - Nigel Kennedy (vln), CBSO/Simon Rattle (EMI CDC 5 56413)

• 9:00 AM. Composer of the Week

  Erica Challis looks at the life and music of GUSTAV MAHLER (1860-1911) (R Mon 7.00pm) (RNZ)

  Blumine, symphonic movement - Zurich Tonhalle Orch/David Zinman (RCA 82876 87156)

  Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen, from Rückert Lieder; Fourth movement, Adagietto, from Symphony No 5 in C# minor - Dagmar Pecková (mezzo), Prague Chamber Phil/Jirí Belohlávek (Supraphon SU 3030-2 231)

• 10:00 AM. Saint Paul Sunday

  Twenty-six programmes in which Bill McGlaughlin talks with chamber musicians in the studio

  (20) Chamber Music Society of the Lincoln Center: David Shifrin (cl), Fred Sherry (cello), Anne-Marie McDermott (pno)

  KERNIS: Trio in Red; BRAHMS: Clarinet Trio in A minor Op 114 (American Public Media)

• 11:00 AM. The Works

  C SCOTT: Neptune - BBC Phil/Martyn Brabbins (Chandos CHAN 10211)

  STRAVINSKY: Piano Sonata in F# minor - Victor Sangiorgio (pno) (Naxos 8.570377)

• Noon Pressing On

  With Nicholas Grigsby (R Fri 7.00pm) (RNZ)

• 1:00 PM. Vintage Years

  DVORÁK: Slavonic Dances Op 72 - Czech Phil/Václav Talich (rec 1950) (Supraphon SU 3821)

  CHOPIN: Mazurkas, No 17 in Bb minor Op 24/4; No 20 in Db Op 30/3; No 24 in C Op 33/3 - Wilhelm Backhaus (pno) (rec 1950) (Testament SBT 1335)

  MOSS: The Floral Dance - Oscar Natzka (bass), orchestral accompaniment/Walter Goehr (rec 1940) (Atoll ACD 400)

  ARNOLD: English Dances Suite No 1 - Philharmonia/Robert Irving (rec 1953) (EMI 5 66120)

• 2:00 PM. The Sunday Feature

  Richard Farrell - New Zealand pianist

  The recorded legacy of Richard Farrell, who died in a car crash in 1958 at the age of 31, shows a pianist of outstanding technique and insight. Peter Mechen presents four programmes reviewing the surviving recordings and talking to those who remember Farrell's playing

  (1) Life and times (RNZ)

• 3:00 PM. Opera on Sunday

  Metropolitan Opera Season

  Twenty-two operas from New York's Metropolitan Opera (20) GLASS: Satyagraha, an opera in three acts

  A portrayal of the period from Gandhi's arrival in South Africa in 1893 to the New Castle March of 1913

  Miss Schlesen............... Rachelle Durkin

  M K Gandhi.................. Richard Croft

  Mr Kallenbach.............. Earle Patriarco

  Parsi Rustomji............... Alfred Walker

  Metropolitan Opera Chorus & Orch/Dante Anzolini (EBU)

• 7:00 PM. Burt Bacharach (b1928)

  Six programmes introduced by William Dart (RNZ)

  (2) Don't make me over; This Empty Place; Walk on By - Dionne Warwick (vocalist)

  The Windows of the World - Mormon Tabernacle Choir

  A Message to Michael - Cal Tjader (vibes) and group

  Alfie - Patricia Barber (vocalist)

  Saturday Sunshine; And the People were with her - Burt Bacharach and orchestra

  Magdalena, from 'Woman' - soloists, Houston Symphony Orchestra/Burt Bacharach

  The Blob - The Five Blobs

  Rome will Never Leave You - Richard Chamberlain (vocalist)

  Promise Her Anything - Tom Jones (vocalist)

• 8:00 PM. Young New Zealand

  members of the New Zealand School of Music Orchestra

  YOUNG: In Memoriam David Farquhar; HOLST: Suite No 2 for Military Band Op 28/2 (recorded in Old St Pauls, Wellington by RNZ)

  Christchurch Youth Orch/Rupert Bond

  NORMAN: Act 3 Entr'acte & Pirate's Dance, from Peter Pan; TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No 5 in E minor Op 64 (recorded in ChristChurch Cathedral, Christchurch by Mike Clayton)

• 9:15 PM. Women Composers

  BONIS: Piano Quartet No 1 in Bb Op 69 - Mozart Piano Quartet (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 643 1424)

  G WILLIAMS: Carillons for oboe & orchestra - Anthony Camden (ob), London SO/Charles Groves (Lyrita SRCD 323)

  DE CASTRO-ROBINSON: Century fanfare, Other echoes - Auckland Philharmonia/Nicholas Braithwaite (Atoll ACD 300)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  BACH: Violin Sonata No 2 in A BWV1015 - Stefano Montanari (vln), Christophe Rousset (hpschd) (Ambroisie AM 109)

  HAYDN: Organ Concerto in D HobXVIII/2 - Ton Koopman (org/dir), Amsterdam Baroque Orch (Philips 416 452)

  DELIBES: Divertissement, from Sylvia - Razumovsky Sinfonia/Andrew Mogrelia (Naxos 8.553339)

  11:00 SHOSTAKOVICH: Cello Sonata in D minor Op 40 - Raphael Wallfisch (cello), John York (pno) (Nimbus NI 5764/5)

  BEETHOVEN: Serenade in D Op 25 for flute, violin & viola - Gaudier Ensemble (Hyperion CDA 67526)

Next day - Mon 19

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