Sunday 29 March 2009 Rātapu 29 Poutū-te-rangi 2009

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  12:00 - Disc 1

  MOZART: Symphonies, No 31 in D K297; No 36 in C K425; No 38 in D K504 - London Mozart Players/Jane Glover (ASV CD DCA 647)

  1:15 (approx) - Disc 2

  SHOSTAKOVICH: Sonata in D minor Op 40; PROKOFIEV: Adagio Op 97; Sonata in C Op 119 - Sonia Weider-Atherton (cello), Laurent Cabasso (pno) (Auvidis Valois V 4666)

  2:20 (approx) - Disc 3

  BLOW: God spake sometime in visions; Let thy hand be strengthened; LAWES: Zadok the priest; PURCELL: My heart is inditing; I was glad; CHILD: O Lord, grant the King a long life; BLOW: Behold, O God our defender; TURNER: The King shall rejoice - Westminster Abbey Choir & Orch/Simon Preston (Archiv 419 6130)

  3:25 (approx) - Disc 4

  VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Fantasia on Greensleeves; CANTELOUBE: Chants d'Auvergne, Bailero; BEETHOVEN: Symphony No 6, Pastoral, Andante molto mosso; SCHUBERT: Trout Quintet, Andantino; CHABRIER: Idylle from Suite pastorale; MACDOWELL: To a wild rose; GRIEG: Cowkeeper's tune; MASSENET: Scenes alsaciennes, Sous les tilleuls; DEBUSSY: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune; MACDOWELL: To a water-lily; SCHUBERT: Rosamunda, Hirtenmelodien & Hirtenchor; J STRAUSS II: Tales from the Vienna Woods - Various artists (London 443 333)

  4:40 (approx) - Disc 5

  CORELLI: Sonata in E minor Op 5/8; GEMINIANI: Sonata in D Op 1/10; VERACINI: Sonata Sesta in E minor Op 1; LOCATELLI: Sonata in C Op 2/1; ALBINONI: Sonata in A minor; VIVALDI: Sonata in G minor RV58; PLATTI: Sonata in G Op 3/6 - Barthold Kuijken (transverse fl), Wieland Kuijken (cello), Robert Konen (hpschd) (Accent ACC 9177 D)

• 6:00 AM. Sanctuary

  SCHUBERT: German Mass D872 - Bavarian Radio Chorus & Orch/Wolfgang Sawallisch, Elmar Schloter (org) (EMI CMS 7 64783)

  LEFÉBURE-WÉLY: Elévation or Communion - from Meditaciones religiosas Op 122 - Joris Verdin (organ of Notre-Dame de Bonsecours) (Ricercar RIC 253)

  FINZI: Lo, the full, final sacrifice Op 26 - Choir of St John's College, Cambridge/Christopher Robinson, Christopher Whitton (org) (Naxos 8.555792)

  MOZART: Church Sonata in F K244 - King's Consort/Robert King (dir), Ian Watson (org) (Hyperion CDH 55314)

  HARRIS: Bring us, O Lord God, at our last awakening - Gabrieli Consort/Paul McCreesh (DG 477 6605)

  BACH: Motet, Jesu, meine Freude BWV227 - Netherlands Chamber Choir/Peter Dijkstra (Channel Classics CCS SA 27108)

  FRANCK: Morceau symphonique, from Rédemption - Bournemouth SO/Andrew Litton (Virgin 3 91331)

  SANDERS: The Reproaches; BRUCKNER: Christus factus est; GIBBONS: Drop, drop, slow tears - Anthony Way (treble), Choir of St Paul's Cathedral, London/John Scott (Hyperion CDA 66916)

• 8:00 AM. Grace Notes

  MASCAGNI arr I Salonisti: Cavalleria Rusticana, Intermezzo - I Salonisti (London 458 382)

  SCULTHORPE: Djilile - Elena Riu (pno) (Linn CKD 111)

  ELGAR: Chanson de Nuit Op 15/1 - Bournemouth Sinfonietta/Norman Del Mar (Chandos CHAN 6544)

  HANDEL: Ombra mai fu, from Xerxes - Andreas Scholl (countertenor), Orch of the Age of Enlightenment/Roger Norrington (Decca 467 620)

  TCHAIKOVSKY: Barcarolle, from The Seasons - Vienna Bohème Quartet (Koch Schwann 3-6718)

  GODARD arr Pierre: Berceuse, from Jocelyn - Patrick Gallois (fl), Fabrice Pierre (hp), London Festival Orch/Ross Pople (DG 445 822)

  MARTUCCI: Notturno Op 70/1 - English CO/Alfredo Bonavera (Hyperion CDA 66290)

  RUBINSTEIN arr Linden: Melody in F Op 3/1 - Anthony Leroy (cello), Sandra Moubarak (pno) (Zig Zag ZZT 020 402)

  ZIPOLI arr Giovanini: Elevazione - Pierre Pierlot (ob), Bernard Fonteny (cello), Anne-Marie Beckensteiner (org), Jean-François Paillard CO/Jean-François Paillard (ABC Classics 465 086)

  9:00 Composer of the Week

  Murray Khouri looks at the life and music of FRANCIS POULENC (1899-1963) (R Mon 7.00pm) (RNZ)

  Mass in G - RIAS Chamber Choir/Marcus Creed (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1588)

  arr Gendron: Sérénade - Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello), Alexandre Tharaud (pno) (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 2012)

• 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

  (2) American Diversity

  DAVIDOVSKY: Piano Septet - Gilbert Kalish (pno), Yoon Kwon (vln), David Kim (vla), Fred Sherry (cello), Daxun Zhang (dbass), Helen O'Connor (fl), David Shifrin (cl)/Jeffrey Milansky

  SMITH: Vignettes, from Ellis Island - Stephanie Blythe (mezzo), Warren Jones (pno) (WFMT)

• 11:00 AM. The Works

  BOIELDIEU: Harp Concerto in C - Marisa Robles (harp), ASMF/Iona Brown (Decca 425 723)

  STRAUSS: Le Bourgeois gentilhomme Op 60 - Berlin Phil/Simon Rattle (EMI 3 39339)

• Noon Pressing On

  With Thomas Goss (R Fri 7.00pm) (RNZ)

• 1:00 PM. Vintage Years

  Britten and Brain

  BRITTEN: Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo - Peter Pears (ten), Benjamin Britten (pno) (rec 1954) (Decca 425 996)

  JACOB: Sextet Op 3 - Dennis Brain Wind Quintet, George Malcolm (pno) (rec 1957) (BBC Legends BBCL 4164)

  BRITTEN: Suite for violin & piano Op 6 - Gabriella Lengyel (vln), Atty Lengyel (pno) (rec 1948) (Le Joueur LJD 002)

• 2:00 PM. The Sunday Feature

  Il Trovatore

  Elric Hooper and Des Wilson discuss the merits of Verdi's popular opera, which we will hear from the Met next week (RNZ)

• 3:00 PM. Opera on Sunday

  Metropolitan Opera Season

  Twenty-two operas from New York's Metropolitan Opera House

  (13) CILÈA: Adriana Lecouvreur, an opera in four acts

  The toast of the French stage, Adriana is a beautiful actress and the object of desire of many men. She is infatuated with Maurizio, the Count of Saxony, but her fear of unrequited love ultimately causes her to make a fatal mistake

  Adriana......................... Maria Guleghina

  Princess........................ Olga Borodina

  Maurizio........................ Plácido Domingo

  Michonnet..................... Roberto Frontali

  Metropolitan Opera Chorus & Orch/Marco Armiliato (EBU)

• 6:20 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ musicians and composers

  CARR: Mardi Gras Overture - Queensland SO/Edwin Carr (Kiwi CD SLD 101)

  HAMILTON: Song for a Young Country - New Zealand Secondary Students' Choir 1999-2000/David Hamilton (Private Recording)

  G WILBY: Three Fragments - Matthew Marshall (gtr) (RNZ)

  BESSER: Classical Challenge - Bravura, Don McGlashan (perc) (Atoll ACD 302)

  TRAD arr Puanaki: Ka Waiata - 1996 New Zealand National Youth Choir/Karen Grylls (Trust MMT 2016)

  PSATHAS: Motet - Michael Houstoun, Diedre Irons (pno duet) (Rattle RAT D008)

• 7:00 PM. New Horizons

  Ten programmes

  (5) William Dart reviews new releases from Antony and the Johnsons and The Fiery Furnaces (RNZ)

• 8:00 PM. Young New Zealand

  Performances from the finalists of the 2008 Pettman/Royal Overseas League Arts International Scholarship for a New Zealand Chamber Ensemble

  DEBUSSY: Cello Sonata in D minor; JANÁÄŒEK: Fairy-tale; BRAHMS: Third movement, Allegro, from Cello Sonata No 1 in E minor Op 38 - Leonari Duo

  MENDELSSOHN: First movement, Adagio-Allegro vivace, from String Quartet No 2 in A minor Op 13; DEBUSSY: Third movement, Andantino, from String Quartet in G minor Op 10; SCHNITTKE: First & Second movements, Andante; Agitato, from String Quartet No 3 - Matariki String Quartet

  SHOSTAKOVICH: Second movement, Allegretto, from Viola Sonata Op 147; BRAHMS: Viola Sonata in Eb Op 120/2 - Duo Giocoso (recorded in the Gallagher Concert Chamber, Hamilton by RNZ)

• 9:30 PM. Recent Release

  SZYMANOWSKI: Violin Concerto No 1 Op 35 - Alena Baeva (vln), Opole Philharmonic SO/Boguslaw Dawidow (Dux 0575)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  RACHMANINOV: Six Morceaux Op 11 - Claire Chevallier, Jos van Immerseel (pno duet) (Zig Zag ZZT 061 105)

  SIBELIUS: Pelléas & Mélisande Op 46 - Philharmonia/Enrique Bátiz (RegisC 1272)

  11:00 BEETHOVEN: Octet in Eb Op 103 - Melbourne Windpower/Richard Runnels (dir) (Move MD 3082)

  MOZART: String Quartet No 18 in A K464 - Hagen Quartet (DG 477 6253)

Next day - Mon 30

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