Sunday 21 December 2008 Rātapu 21 Hakihea 2008

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  12:00 - Disc 1

  RACHMANINOV: Piano Concerto No 3 in D minor Op 30; PROKOFIEV: Piano Concerto No 3 in C Op 26 - Martha Argerich (pno), RIAS SO, Berlin Phil/Riccardo Chailly (Artists Live FED 049)

  1:05 (approx) - Disc 2

  DVORÁK: Five Bagatelles for two violins, cello & harmonium Op 47; String Quintet in Eb Op 97; Terzettto in C for two violins & viola Op 74 - Robert Ireland (harmonium), Patrick Ireland (vla), Lindsay String Quartet (ASV CD DCA 806)

  2:15 (approx) - Disc 3

  ANON: Verbum caro (chant); Salutation carol; Nowell sing we; CANTIONES: Gaudate; ANON: Hail Mary, full of grace; SHEPPARD: Gloria in excelsis; ANON: There is no rose; Nowell, nowell: Out of your sleep; RAVENSCROFT: Remember o thou man; PYGOTT: Quid petis, O fili?; ANON: Sweet was the song; BYRD: Lullaby my sweet little baby; ANON: Ave rex angelorum; Drive the cold winter away; Nowell, nowell; The old year now has passed away; ANON: Angelus ad Virginem; Nowell, nowell, Dieu vous garde; Make we joy; SHEPPARD: Verbum caro - Giles Levin (rebec, fiddles), Frances Kelly (hps, drum), Robin Jeffrey (lute/drum), Robin Barda (drum), The Sixteen/Harry Christophers (Coro COR 16027)

  3:35 (approx) - Disc 4

  BAX: Cello Sonata in Eb; Folk-Tale; Sonatina in D; Legend-Sonata in F# minor - Bernard Gregor-Smith (cello), Yolande Wrigley (pno) (ASV CD DCA 896)

  4:50 (approx) - Disc 5

  TCHAIKOVSKY: Serenade in C for strings Op 48; String Quartet No 1 in D Op 11; Elegy; Scherzo in C minor Op 42/2 - Kremlin CO/Misha Rachlevsky (Claves CD 50-9116)

• 6:00 AM. Sanctuary

  BACH: Cantata No 132 written for the 4th Sunday in Advent, Make ready the pathways, make ready the road - Arleen Augér (sop), Helen Watts (contralto), Kurt Equiluz (ten), Wolfgang Schöne (bass), Gächinger Kantorei, Stuttgart, Bach-Collegium, Stuttgart/Helmuth Rilling (Hänssler CD 92.041)

  FUCHS: O joyous day; BRUCH: Let us rock the little child; KIENZL: I want to offer thee my heart; REGER: Sleep, my little child - RIAS Chamber Choir/Uwe Gronostay (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1794)

  G JACKSON: Ane sang of the birth of Christ - Choir of St Mary's Episcopal Cathedral, Edinburgh/Matthew Owens, Simon Nieminski (org) (Delphian DCD 34027)

  BALBASTRE: A la venue de Noël; Ah ma voisine es-tu fâchée?; Tous les bourgeois de Châtres - René Saorgin (organ of the Cathedral of Tende, France) (Harmonia Mundi HMX 297 8199)

  CHILCOTT: The shepherd's carol; And every stone shall cry - BBC Singers/Bob Chilcott (Signum SIGCD 100)

  TRAD: Angelus emittitur; Salve flos et décor; Verbum caro factum est; Congaudeat turba fidelium; Parvulus nobis nascitur - Antwerp Cathedral Choir, Zefiro Torna, Timo Väänänen (kantele) (Et'cetera KTC 4023)

  COOMAN: Do you know the song; In a lowly manger sleeping; The sky can still remember - Choir of Royal Holloway, London/Rupert Gough, Samuel Rathbone (org) (Naxos 8.559361)

  SCHIASSI: Sinfonia pastorale per il santissimo natale di nostro Jesu, from Symphony in D, Christmas - Northwest CO, Seattle/Alun Francis, Virginia Moore (hpschd) (Hyperion CDH 55048)

  LAURIDSEN: O magnum mysterium - Robert Shaw Chamber Singers/Robert Shaw (Telarc CD 80531)

  POULENC: Four Christmas Motets - Polyphony/Stephen Layton (Hyperion CDA 67623)

• 8:00 AM. Grace Notes

  VAUGHAN WILLIAMS arr Greaves: Fantasia on Greensleeves - Tasmanian SO/David Stanhope (ABC Classics 472 984)

  LISZT: Concert Study No 3 in Db, Un Sospiro - Marc-André Hamelin (pno) (Music & Arts CD 723)

  FAURÉ: Elegy Op 24 - Paul Tortelier (cello), Toulouse Capitole Orch/Michel Plasson (EMI 3 97722)

  TÁRREGA: Recuerdos de la Alhambra - Dejan Ivanovic (gtr) (Naxos 8.557038)

  CHAPLIN arr Ogermann: Smile, from Modern Times - Gidon Kremer (vln), Oleg Maisenberg (pno) (Telarc 0630 17222)

  FARR: Waipoua - Marina Sturm (cl), New Zealand SO/James Sedares (Universal 399 8782)

  DEBUSSY: Reflets dans l'eau, from Images, Book 1 - Cécile Ousset (pno) (EMI CDC 7 49497)

  BORODIN: In the Steppes of Central Asia - Royal Phil/Ole Schmidt (RegisC 1215)

• 9:00 AM. Christmastide

  PRAETORIUS: Nun komm der Heiden Heiland - Bremen Baroque Consort/Manfred Cordes (CPO 777 327)

  REGER: Chorale Fantasia on Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme Op 52/2 - Stefan Frank (organ of Fulda Cathedral, Germany) (Naxos 8.557186)

  JFC FISCHER: Missa in contrapuncto - Chamber Choir of the MarienKantorei, Lemgo, Handel's Company/Rainer Johannes Homberg (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 605 1477)

• 10:00 AM. Chamber Music at Lincoln Center

  Twenty-six programmes hosted by Elliott Forrest, with commentary by the Chamber Music Society's Artistic Director, David Finckel, recorded in New York City

  (23) Selected songs by the MOZART family - Barbara Bonney, Shannon Mercer (sops), Isabel Leonard (mezzo), Colin Balzer (ten), Joshua Hopkins (bar), Margo Garrett (pno)

  String Quintet No 4 in G minor K516 - Orion String Quartet, Michael Tree (vla) (WFMT)

• 11:00 AM. The Works

  REGER: Variations & Fugue on a theme of Mozart Op 132 - Dresden Phil/Jörg-Peter Weigle (Capriccio 71 118)

  HOROVITZ: Concerto for clarinet & string orchestra - Fiona Cross (cl), Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Joseph Horovitz (Dutton CLX 7188)

• Noon Alte Musik

  Ten programmes sampling aspects of early music

  (1) Medieval Sounds

  ANON: Intonent hodie; Sainte nicholaes; Cum quidam fluctuania; Nicholai presulis - Anonymous 4 (Harmonia Mundi HMU 90 7232)

  Danza de las espadas; Saltarello; Istampitta: La Manfredina; Trotto - Jordi Savall (vièle ténor), Pedro Estevan (percussion) (Auvidis Astree E 8547)

  Miri it is while sumer ilast; Brid one brere - Dufay Collective (Chandos CHAN 9396)

  GAUTIER DE COINCY: Efforcier m'estuet ma voiz - Ian Harrison (shawm), Harp Consort/Andrew Lawrence-King (Harmonia Mundi HMU 90 7317)

  ANON: Benedicamus domino; Beata viscera; Thomas gemma Cantuarie; Thomas cesus in Doveria - Theatre of Voices/Paul Hillier, Christopher Bowers-Broadbent (org) (Harmonia Mundi HMU 90 7185)

  GAUTIER DE COINCY: Puisque voi la fleur novele; D'une amour quoie et serie - Caitríona O'Leary (sop), Harp Consort/Andrew Lawrence-King (Harmonia Mundi HMU 90 7317)

  TRAD: Ave Maria; Nowel, Owt of your slepe aryse - Anonymous 4 (Harmonia Mundi HMU 90 7099)

• 1:10 PM. Vintage Years

  BRAHMS: Horn Trio in Eb Op 40 - Dennis Brain (horn), Max Salpeter (vln), Cyril Preedy (pno) (rec 1957) (BBC Legends BBCL 4048)

  SIBELIUS: Tapiola - Royal Phil/Thomas Beecham (rec 1946) (Biddulph WHL 055)

• 2:00 PM. The Sunday Feature

  Old Wine in New Bottles

  Four programmes in which Brian Kay savours old music which has been renewed or reinvented

  (1) Terpsichore, Spirit of the Dance

  Folk traditions are given new life in the concert hall thanks to Arnold, Bartók and Dvorák. Also, Peter Maxwell Davies and William Alwyn find inspiration in British dances of the Renaissance (RNZ)

• 3:00 PM. Opera on Sunday

  VERDI: Aida, an opera in four acts

  Aida.............................. Mirella Freni

  Radamès....................... José Carreras

  Amneris........................ Agnes Baltsa

  Amonasro..................... Piero Cappuccilli

  Ramfis........................... Ruggero Raimondi

  King of Egypt................ José van Dam

  Messenger.................... Thomas Moser

  Priestess........................ Katia Ricciarelli

  Vienna State Opera Chorus, Vienna Phil/Herbert von Karajan (EMI 3 81877)

• 6:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ musicians and composers

  MOZART: Prelude & Fugue in C K394/383a - John Khouri (fpno) (Entr'acte ESCD 6501)

  L LIEBERMANN: Sonata for flute & harp Op 56 - Alexa Still (fl), Victoria Drake (harp) (Koch 3-7549)

  HAMILTON: Sing we Triumphant - New Zealand Secondary Students' Choir 1991-1992/Roger Stevenson, Roy Tankersley (org) (NZSSC)

  COSMA: Concerto for euphonium - Adam Frey (euphonium), New Zealand SO/Bruce Hangen (Naxos 8.570538)

• 7:00 PM. New Horizons

  Twelve programmes

  (12) William Dart presents a bumper box of seasonal bonbons (RNZ)

• 8:00 PM. Youth Christmas Concert from Copenhagen

  Danish National Girls' Choir & Youth Ensemble/Michael Bojesen

  TRAD: Here come your little ones, Jesus; CORELLI: Concerto Grosso in G minor Op 6/8, Christmas Concerto; WEYSE: Welcome again God's little angels; Yule has brought blessed tidings; NØRGÅRD: Lysning (Lightening); BUXTEHUDE: Jesu meine Freude, meine Herzens Weide BuxWV60; BOJESEN: The silver stars are in the sky; TRAD arr Bojesen: Let the clouds sweetly resound; Lovely the earth (recorded in Frederiksberg Church, Copenhagen by Danish Radio)

• 8:55 PM. Two Poles

  CHOPIN: Piano Concerto No 2 in F minor Op 21 - Alexis Weissenberg (pno), Paris Conservatoire Orch/Stanislaw Skrowaczewski (EMI 5 00906)

  KARLOWICZ compltd Fitelberg: Episode at a Masquerade - Warsaw Phil/Antoni Wit (Naxos 8.570452)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  KROMMER: Wind Partita in Eb Op 45/1 - Michael Thompson Wind Ensemble (Naxos 8.553868)

  KORNGOLD: Cello Concerto in C Op 37, Deception - Jan Vogler (cello), Saarbrücken Radio SO/Thomas Sanderling (Berlin Classics 1767 BC)

  ELGAR: Nursery Suite - New Zealand SO/James Judd (Naxos 8.557166)

  11:00 ASAFYEV: Sonatina for oboe & piano - Ivan Paisov (ob), Natalia Shcherbakova (pno) (Naxos 8.570596)

  TANEYEV: String Trio in D - Leopold String Trio (Hyperion CDA 67573)

  AYALA: American Series - Victor Villadangos (gtr) (Naxos 8.555058)

Next day - Mon 22

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