Sunday 20 December 2009 Rātapu 20 Hakihea 2009

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  12:00 - Disc 1

  STRAUSS: Metamorphosen; Three Hymns, Hymne an die Liebe; Ruckkehr in die Heimat; Die Liebe; Death & Transfiguration - Felicity Lott (sop), Scottish National Orch/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHAN 8734)

  1:10 (approx) - Disc 2

  LECLAIR: Sonata in D minor Op 4/1; Sonata in Bb Op 4/2; Sonata in D minor Op 4/3; Sonata in F Op 4/4; Sonata in G minor Op 4/5; Sonata in A Op 4/6 - Purcell Quartet (Chandos CHAN 0536)

  2:25 (approx) - Disc 3

  TRAD: King Jesus hath a garden; Up! good Christian folk, & listen; Gabriel's message; Donkey Carol; Wexford Carol; Cradle Song; Child in a manger; RUTTER: Mary's Lullaby; TRAD: Ding! Dong! merrily on high; Quelle est cette odeur agreable?; I saw a maiden; In dulci jubilo; DARKE: In the bleak mid-winter; TRAD: I saw three ships; The noble stem of Jesse; TCHAIKOVSKY: The crown of roses; POSTON: Jesus Christ the apple tree; PRAETORIUS: Omnis mundus jocundetur; TRAD: Wassail; The holly & the ivy - Choir & Orch of Clare College, Cambridge/John Rutter (Decca 425 500)

  3:20 (approx) - Disc 4

  WELLS: A New Zealand Suite; GRIFFITHS: Meditation on Maria zu leben; Trisagion, Nicaea; LILBURN: Prelude & Fugue in G minor; MEWS: Gigue de Pan; TS WEBSTER arr Wells: Waikato March; VIERNE: Naïades, Op 55/4; GRAINGER arr Wells: Blythe Bells; HOLLINS: Spring Song; Grand Choeur in C - John Wells (org) (Ribbonwood RCD 1005)

  4:35 (approx) - Disc 5

  ARNOLD: The Roots of Heaven; ALWYN: Suite of Scottish Dances; SARGENT: An Impression of a Windy Day; PARKER: The Glass Slipper; LANGLEY: The Coloured Counties; JACOB: The Barber of Seville Goes to the Devil, Overture; JOHNSTONE: Tarn Hows, a Cumbrian Rhapsody; LANGFORD: Two Worlds, Overture; BENNETT: Little Suite; LYON: Joie de Vivre, Overture - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland (ASV White Line CD WHL 2113)

• 6:00 AM. Sanctuary

  TRAD: O Clavis David; WARLOCK: Bethlehem Down - Peter Morton (ten), Choir of St John's College, Cambridge/David Hill, Paul Provost (org) (Hyperion CDA 67576)

  BACH: Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier BWV731; Nun komm' der Heiden Heiland BWV599; In dulci jublio BWV608; In dulci jublio (Chorale) BWV368; Vom Himmel hoch, da komm' ich her BWV606; Gott, durch deine Güte/Gottes Sohn ist kommen BWV600; Puer natus in Bethlehem BWV603 & BWV65 - members of Tölz Boys' Choir, Quartetto Italiano di Viole da Gamba (Winter & Winter 910 053)

  STOKOWSKI: Two ancient liturgical melodies; HANDEL trans Stokowski: Pastoral Symphony, from Messiah - Bournemouth SO/José Serebrier (Naxos 8.557883)

  HOWELLS: Three Carol-Anthems - Choir of Wells Cathedral/Malcolm Archer (Hyperion CDA 67494)

  TOMKINS: Te Deum and Jubilate, from the Fifth Service - Fretwork, Alamire, Choir of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge/David Skinner (Obsidian CD 702)

  VICTORIA: O magnum mysterium; Missa O magnum mysterium - Choir of Westminster Cathedral/David Hill (Hyperion CDA 66190)

  PACHELBEL: Chorale Prelude, Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern; ALDROVANDINI: Pastorale - Huw Williams (organ of St Paul's Cathedral, London) (Priory PRCD 778)

  H PRAETORIUS: Magnificat on the fifth tone; In dulci iubilo; Joseph lieber, Joseph mein - Cardinall's Musick/Andrew Carwood (Hyperion CDA 67669)

  TRAD: O Emmanuel - Peter Morton (ten), Choir of St John's College, Cambridge/David Hill (Hyperion CDA 67576)

• 8:00 AM. Grace Notes

  GRIEG: Morning, from Peer Gynt Suite No 1 - Leipzig Gewandhaus Orch/Kurt Masur (Decca 473 862)

  GLAZUNOV: Chant du Ménestrel - Shauna Rolston (cello), Calgary Phil/Mario Bernardi (CBC SMCD 5153)

  PALESTRINA: Gloria, from Missa Papae Marcelli - The Sixteen/Harry Christophers (BBC Music BBC MM 292)

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

  SATIE orch Debussy: Gymnopédie No 3 - CBSO/Louis Frémaux (EMI 7 94431)

  SCHUMANN: Arabeske in C Op 18 - Finghin Collins (pno) (Claves CD 50-2601/02)

  BIZET: Micaela's aria, Je dis que rien ne m'épouvante, from Carmen - Kiri Te Kanawa (sop), London Phil/Georg Solti (Decca 417 645)

  DELIUS arr Fenby: Serenade, from Hassan - Julian Lloyd Webber (cello), National Phil/Charles Gerhardt (RCA 74321 84112)

  PROKOFIEV: Romeo & Juliet, from Romeo & Juliet - Berlin Phil/Claudio Abbado (DG 453 439)

• 9:00 AM. Christmastide: music for the festive season

  Votive Mass of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Advent - Choir of Westminster Cathedral/Martin Baker, Matthew Martin (org) (Hyperion CDA 67707)

  WILLAN: The Great O Antiphons of Advent - Vancouver Chamber Choir/Jon Washburn (Virgin 5 45183)

  MUSGRAVE: For the Time Being: Advent, A Christmas Oratorio - Michael York (narrator), New York Virtuoso Singers/Harold Rosenbaum (Bridge 9161)

• 10:00 AM. The Works

  FRANCK: Le Chasseur Maudit - Basle SO/Armin Jordan (Erato ECD 88167)

  STRAUSS: Don Quixote - Thomas Grossenbacher (cello), Michel Rouilly (vla), Zurich Tonhalle Orch/David Zinman (Arte Nova 74321 98496)

  BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata No 23 in F minor, Appassionata - Mari Kodama (pno) (PentaTone PTC 5186 024)

  NIELSEN: Symphony No 4 Op 29, The Inextinguishable - Danish National SO/Michael Schønwandt (Naxos 8.570739)

• Noon Alte Musik

  Ten programmes sampling aspects of early music

  (1) Praetorius and Christmas morning

  Christmas Mass - Gabrieli Consort & Players Boys' Choir, Congregational Choir of Roskilde Cathedral/Paul McCreesh, Timothy Roberts (organ of Roskilde Cathedral) (Archiv 439 250)

• 1:30 PM. Vintage Years

  SCHUMANN: Fantasy Pieces Op 73 - Maurice Gendron (cello), Jean Françaix (pno) (rec 1952) (Testament SBT 1310)

  WAGNER: Siegfried Idyll - Royal Concertgebouw Orch/Pierre Monteux (rec 1953) (RNM MCCL 97018)

• 2:00 PM. The Sunday Feature

  The Gift of Music

  For the season of giving Murray Khouri looks at suitable recordings for introducing children to classical music

  (3) Carnival and other Animals (RNZ)

• 3:00 PM. A Christmas Oratorio

  BERLIOZ: L'Enfance du Christ, an oratorio in three parts - Mireille Delunsch (sop), Ed Lyon, Masashi Tsuji (tens), David Wilson-Johnson, William Dazeley (bars), Salzburg Bach Choir, Salzburg Mozarteum Orch/Ivor Bolton (Oehms OC 917)

• 4:45 PM. Children's Hour and a Quarter

  QUILTER: A Children's Overture - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland (ASV White Line CD WHL 2140)

  L LIEBERMANN: Ostinato; Starry Night; Melancholy; Homage to Fauré; Homage to Alkan, from Album for the Young - Alexa Still (fl), David Korevaar (pno) (Koch 3-7549)

  ELGAR: Nursery Suite - Stephanie Gonley (vln), English CO/Paul Goodwin (Harmonia Mundi HMU 90 7258)

  WEINBERG: Children's Notebooks, Book 3 - Jascha Nemtsov (pno) (Hänssler CD 93.233)

  DEBUSSY arr Caplet: Children's Corner - Lyon National Orch/Jun Märkl (Naxos 8.570759)

• 6:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ musicians and composers

  MCLEOD: Little Symphony - New Zealand SO/Kenneth Young (Continuum CCD 1073)

  HILL: One came fluting - Tamara Anna Cislowska (pno) (Artworks AW 005)

  BESSER: Dance of the Zestniks - Zestniks (Besser Music)

  GERSHWIN: Cuban Overture - New Zealand SO/James Judd (Naxos 8.559107)

• 7:00 PM. New Horizons

  Ten programmes

  (10) In his Christmas edition this year, William Dart starts with Bob Dylan's surprising new Christmas album, Christmas in the Heart, and then saunters on the soulful side with Aretha Franklyn, Nancy Wilson, Peggy Lee, Nat King Cole, Aaron Neville, Big Maybelle and others (RNZ)

• 8:00 PM. Millennium of Music

  The sources and mainstreams of European music from the thousand years before the birth of Bach

  Two programmes

  A Quattro Stagione Christmas, Part 1

  ANON: Veni, veni, Emmanuel; STOLZER: O admirabile commercium; CORNYSHE: Ave Maria, mater Dei; PEROTINUS: Ex semina rosa; BYRD: Lullaby, My sweet little baby; PEROTINUS: Beata viscera; ANON English: Edi beo thus hevene queen; Nowell, Nowell, out of your sleep arise and wake; BYRD: Felix es, sacra Virgo Maria; ANON English: Marvell not, Joseph, on Mary mild; WALTER: Joseph lieber, Joseph mein; MORALES: Ecce virgo concipiet; ANON English: Ther is no rose of swich vertu; ANON English: Alleluia, Nou well may we mirthes make; Coventry Carol (WFMT) (Programme 2 next Sunday 8.00pm)

• 9:00 PM. Music with Mutter

  MOZART: Violin Sonata No 36 in F K547 - Anne-Sophie Mutter (vln), Lambert Orkis (pno) (DG 477 5801)

  MENDELSSOHN: Piano Trio No 1 in D minor Op 49 - Anne-Sophie Mutter (vln), Lynn Harrell (cello), André Previn (pno) (DG 477 8148)

  BACH: Violin Concerto in A minor BWV1041 - Anne-Sophie Mutter (vln/dir), Trondheim Soloists (DG 477 7450)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  CHOPIN: Mazurkas Op 17 - Richard Mapp (pno) (RNZ)

  VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Oboe Concerto in A minor - Neil Black (ob), English CO/Daniel Barenboim (DG 419 748)

  PLEYEL: Symphony in C Ben128 - Capella Istropolitana/Uwe Grodd (Naxos 8.554696)

  11:00 BRAHMS: Clarinet Sonata in F minor Op 120/1 - Karl Leister (cl), Ferenc Bognár (pno) (Nimbus NI 5600)

  SCHUBERT: String Quartet No 8 in Bb D112 - Verdi Quartet (Hänssler CD 98.546)

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