Sunday 6 June 2010 Rātapu 6 Pipiri 2010

• 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

  OSCAR WILDE: The Happy Prince; The Rose & the Nightingale; The Selfish Giant - John Guilgud (narrator), English String Orch/Youra Guller (Nimbus NI 5036)

  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

  BYRD: Propers for Corpus Christi - Cardinall's Music/Andrew Carwood (dir) (Gaudeamus CD GAU 332)

  PÄRT: Littlemore Tractus - Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir/Paul Hillier, Christopher Bowers-Broadbent (org) (Harmonia Mundi HMU 907401)

  PÄRT: Spiegel im Spiegel - Dietmar Schwalke (cello), Alexander Malter (pno) (ECM 1591)

  MESSIAEN: O sacrum convivium - The Gents & women's choir/Peter Dijkstra (Channel Classics CCS SA 22405)

  TALLIS: In nomine - Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet (L'Oiseau-Lyre 436 155)

  BACH: Cantata No 2, written for the 2nd Sunday after Trinity, O God, look down from heaven - Pascal Bertin (countertenor), Gerd Türk (ten), Peter Kooy (bass), Concerto Palatino, Bach Collegium Japan/Masaaki Suzuki (BIS SACD 1461)

  LISZT: O sacrum convivium - Leslie Howard (pno) (Hyperion CDA 66694)

  JONGEN: Mass Op 130 - Choir of St John's College, Cambridge, London City Brass/David Hill, Paul Provost (org) (Hyperion CDA 67603)

  G JACKSON: O sacrum convivium - Polyphony/Stephen Layton (Hyperion CDA 67708)

• 8:00 AM. Grace Notes

  STÖLZEL orch Klemperer: Bist du bei mir - BBC SO/Leonard Slatkin (Chandos CHSA 5030)

  FAURÉ: Elegy Op 24 - Han-Na Chang (cello), London SO/Mstislav Rostropovich (EMI CDC 5 56126)

  PUCCINI: Doretta's dream, from La Rondine - Kiri Te Kanawa (sop), New Zealand SO/John Hopkins (Kiwi CD KML 1)

  CHOPIN: Etude in Ab Op 25/1, Aeolian Harp - Murray Perahia (pno) (Sony SK 61885)

  RACHMANINOV arr Kreisler: Daisies Op 38/3 - Lydia Mordkovitch (vln), James Kirby (pno) (Chandos CHAN 10028)

  HILDEGARD OF BINGEN: Columba Aspexit - Emma Kirkby, Emily van Evera, Poppy Holden, Judith Stell (sops), Doreen Muskett (symphony)/Christopher Page (dir) (Hyperion CDA 66039)

  MOZART: Adagio in E K261 - Anne-Sophie Mutter (vln), ASMF/Neville Marriner (EMI 5 62825)

  VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Third movement, Romanza (Lento), from Symphony No 5 in D - New Zealand SO/James Sedares (Universal 399 8782)

• 9:00 AM. Composer of the Week

  ROBERT SCHUMANN (1810-1856)

  The first of two weeks in which we mark the 200th anniversary of Schumann's birth

  Peter Watts presents an overview of the life and music of the composer (R Mon 7.00pm) (RNZ)

  Papillons Op 2 - Eric Le Sage (pno) (Alpha 098)

  Symphony in G minor WoO29, Zwickau - Swedish CO/Thomas Dausgaard (BIS SACD 1569)

• 10:00 AM. Fearful Symmetries

  A series of eleven documentaries celebrating each decade of the 20th Century and the first decade of the 21st Century. Roger Smith and a selection of New Zealand experts survey musical landmarks and innovative movements in the arts

  (6) 1950-1959: Imaginary Landscapes (RNZ)

• 11:30 AM. From the Year 1950

  H WOOD: Sketch of a Dandy - Czecho-Slovak Radio SO/Adrian Leaper (Marco Polo 8.223402)

  ADDINSELL: Smokey Mountains Concerto - Philip Martin (pno), BBC Concert Orch/Kenneth Alwyn (Marco Polo 8.223732)

  ISOLFSSON: Festival March - Iceland SO/Petri Sakari (Chandos CHAN 9180)

• Noon Pressing On

  Dianne James reviews recent releases, including Haydn piano sonatas played by Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (R Fri 7.00pm)

• 1:00 PM. Vintage Years

  CARPENTER: Sea Drift - New York/Leonard Bernstein (rec 1945) (Symposium 1295)

  DELIUS: Violin Concerto - Jean Pougnet (vln), Royal Phil/Thomas Beecham (rec 1946) (EMI CDM 7 64054)

  MOZART: Symphony No 25 in G minor K183 - London Phil/Sergiu Celibidache (rec 1948) (IMG Artists 5 62872)

• 2:00 PM. The Sunday Feature

  To mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of Robert Schumann this week, we present:

  The World of Robert Schumann by John C Tibbetts

  A 15-part radio documentary

  (1) Storm and Stress: A Profile of the Romantic Age, 1780-1850

  Social, political and artistic developments and themes in the Napoleonic age, the dawning of Romanticism. Commentators include Prof Jacques Barzun (cultural historian), Prof Albert Boime (art historian), Dr Peter Ostwald (biographer), Prof Ronald Taylor (biographer) and Robert Winter (historian) (Pandemonium Productions)

• 3:00 PM. Opera on Sunday

  Euroradio Opera Season

  A selection of live operatic performances recorded by some of the world's major public broadcasters

  ENESCU: Oedipe, an opera in four acts

  Oedipus........................ Franck Ferrari

  High Priest.................... Stefan Schuller

  Shepherd...................... Valentin Racoveanu

  Jocasta.......................... Oana Andra

  Laius............................. Mihai Lazar

  Tiresias......................... Horia Sandu

  Phorbas........................ Pompeiu Harasteanu

  Merope......................... Adriana Alexandru

  Antigone....................... Crina Zancu

  Watchman..................... Mihnea Lamatic

  Sphinx........................... Ecaterina Tutu

  Theseus......................... Vicentiu Taranu

  Theban Woman............. Sidonia Nica

  Creon........................... Ionut Pascu

  Bucharest National Opera Chorus & Orch/Oleg Caetani (Rumanian Radio)

• 5:30 PM. Preludes for the Swollen-Footed

  SCHILLINGS: Symphonic Prelude to King Oedipus by Sophocles - Czecho-Slovak State Phil, Kosice/Alfred Walter (Marco Polo 8.223324)

  STANFORD: Oedipus Rex, Prelude Op 29 - Ulster Orch/Vernon Handley (Chandos CHAN 8884)

• 6:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ musicians and composers

  LILBURN: Piano Sonata in A minor (1939) - Dan Poynton (pno) (Trust MMT 2053)

  R THOMPSON: Symphony No 2 in E minor - New Zealand SO/Andrew Schenck (Koch International 3-7074)

• 7:00 PM. New Horizons

  Ten programmes

  (1) The theme is 'Veterans' but William Dart uses it loosely, introducing new albums from Bettye LaVette and Martha Wainwright as well as playing tracks from Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan and Elisabeth Welch (RNZ)

• 8:00 PM. Young New Zealand

  Gisborne Music Competition 2009

  Three programmes with the competitors accompanied on the piano by Sarah Watkins and Rosemary Barnes

  (3) Final

  BRAHMS: Cello Sonata No 2 in F Op 99; VASKS: The Book - Daidai Wu (cello)

  YSAŸE: Sonata in E for solo violin Op 27/6; PROKOFIEV: Violin Concerto No 1 in D Op 19 - Xenia Deviatkina-Loh (vln)

  SAINT-SAËNS: Introduction & Rondo Capriccioso Op 28; PROKOFIEV: Violin Concerto No 2 in G minor Op 63 - Sonja Schebeck (vln) (recorded in the Gisborne War Memorial Theatre by RNZ)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  SCHUBERT: Impromptu in F minor D935/1 - Lili Kraus (pno) (Vanguard OVC 4068)

  BACH: Orchestral Suite No 3 in D BWV1068 - Fabio Biondi (vln), Le Concert des Nations, La Capella Reial de Catalunya/Jordi Savall (dir) (Naïve ES 9958)

  BERLIOZ: Romeo & Juliet, Orchestral Music from the Dramatic Symphony, Part 1 - Chicago SO/Carlo Maria Giulini (EMI 5 85974)

  11:00 SOR: Twenty-four Progressive Pieces - Jason Vieaux (gtr) (Naxos 8.553986)

  SPOHR: String Quartet No 35 in Eb Op 155 - Dima Quartet, Moscow (Marco Polo 8.225316)

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