Sunday 27 February 2011 Rātapu 27 Hui-tanguru 2011

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  Disc 1

  REGER: Variations & Fugue on a theme of Mozart Op 132; Variations & Fugue on a theme of Hiller Op 100 - New Zealand SO/Franz-Paul Decker (Naxos 8.553079)

  1:10 approx - Disc 2

  LECUONA: Rapsodia Negra for piano & orchestra; Suite Espanola; Ante El Escorial; Zambra Gitana; Aragonesa; Granada; Zambra; San Fransisco El Grande; Aragón; Preludio en la Noche; La Habanera; Mazurka en Glissande; Canto del Guajiro; Three Miniatures; Canto Sibony; Noche Azul - Thomas Tirino (pno), Polish National Radio SO/Michael Bartos (BIS CD 754)

  2:30 approx - Disc 3

  TRAD arr Beethoven: Music, love & wine; Bonny laddie, Highland laddie; I'll praise the saint with early song; Sally in our alley; Sunset; Faithfu' Johnnie; Behold, my love; His boat comes on the sunny tide; Enchantress, Farewell; The pulse of an Irishman; To the aeolian harp; O Charlie is my darling; Duncan Gray; To the blackbird; 'Tis sunshine at last; Cease your funning; Oh sweet were the hours; Save me from the grave & wise; Farewell bliss & farewell Nancy; Love without hope; Farewell thou noisy town; He promis'd me at parting; The monks of Bangor's march; Robin Adair; O swiftly glides the bonny boat; Sad & luckless was the season; Come draw we round a cheerful ring; The sweetest lad was Jamie; Come fill, fill, my good fellow - Elaine Woods (sop), Carolyn Watkinson (alto), Josef Protschka (ten), Richard Salter (bar), Christian Altenburger (vln), Julius Berger (cello), Helmut Deutsch (pno) (Sony SK 64301)

  3:40 approx - Disc 4

  DVORÁK: Piano Quintet Op 81; String Quartet No 12 Op 96, American - Hiroko Nakamura (pno), Tokyo String Quartet (CBS MK 44920)

  4:45 approx - Disc 5

  KHACHATURIAN: Spartacus, Suite No 4; Masquerade Suite; Music from the Ballet, Circus; Dance Suite - St Petersburg State SO/André Anichanov, Moscow SO/Dmitry Yablonsky (Naxos 8.550802)

• 6:00 AM. Sanctuary

  FRANCO: Salve Regina - La Cappella Cervantina/Horacio Franco (K617 K617 075)

  KODÁLY: Intermezzo for string trio - Berlin Philharmonic String Trio (Arte Nova 74321 54845)

  BACH: Cantata No 18, For as the rain and snow come down from heaven (written for Sexagesima Sunday) - Gillian Keith (sop), James Gilchrist (ten), Stephan Loges (bass), Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists/John Eliot Gardiner (Soli Deo Gloria SDG 153)

  STANFORD: Three Latin Motets Op 38 - Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge/Richard Marlow (Conifer CDCF 155)

  CHILCOTT: Peace Mass - Cotswold Children's Choir/Hilary Tadman-Robins, Philip Ledger (pno) (Cotswold CCC 0401)

  GRÍMSDÓTTIR: I will praise her and laud; My soul is beset with woes - Hljómeyki/Bernhardur Wilkinson (Iceland Music Centre SMK 23)

  PÄRT: Fratres for wind octet & percussion - I Fiamminghi/Rudolf Werthen (Telarc CD 80387)

  JANÁCEK: The Lord's Prayer - Andrew Carwood (ten), Christ Church Cathedral Choir/Stephen Darlington, Victoria Davies (harp), Clive Driskill-Smith (org) (Griffin GCCD 4042)

  SHEPPARD: The Lord's Prayer - Stile Antico (Harmonia Mundi HMU 80 7509)

  VASKS: Pater noster - Latvian Radio Choir, Sinfonietta Riga/Sigvards Klava (Ondine ODE 1106)

  BRIGGS: Te Deum laudamus; Toccata on Te Deum laudamus - Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge/Stephen Layton, David Briggs (organ of Gloucester Cathedral) (Hyperion CDA 67808)

• 8:00 AM. Grace Notes

  DELIUS: On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring - Hallé Orch/Mark Elder (Hallé CD HLL 7512)

  RACHMANINOV arr Volodos: Andante, from Cello Sonata in G minor Op 19 - Arcadi Volodos (pno) (Sony SK 64384)

  FAURÉ: Après un rêve - Anna Noakes (fl), Gillian Tingay (harp) (ASV White Line CD WHL 2101)

  PIAZZOLLA: Winter, from Four Seasons in Buenos Aires - Astoria (Fuga Libera FUG 603)

  MOZART: Third movement, Adagio, from Serenade No 10 in Bb K361, Gran Partita - Orch of the 18th Century/Frans Brüggen (ABC 472 610)

  HANDEL: Eternal source of light divine, from Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne - Edita Gruberova (sop), Wynton Marsalis (tpt), English CO/Raymond Leppard (CBS MK 39061)

  TCHAIKOVSKY arr Meshchaninov: Melody, from Souvenir d'un lieu cher - Vytautas Sondeckis (cello), Lithuanian CO/David Geringas (Naxos 8.554381)

  ANON: Ay luna que reluzes - Montserrat Figueras, Maite Arruabarrena (sops), Carlos Mena (countertenor), Lambert Climent, Francesc Garrigosa (tens), La Capella Reial de Catalunya/Jordi Savall (dir) (Auvidis Astrée E 8582)

  KHACHATURIAN: Adagio of Spartacus & Phrygia, from Spartacus - Bolshoi SO/Alexander Lazarev (Warner 8573 80438)

• 9:00 AM. Composer of the Week

  FRANZ LISZT (1811-1886)

  Two programmes marking the 200th anniversary of Liszt's birth

  (1) William Dart looks at the composer's life and music (R Mon 7.00pm) (RNZ)

  Der du von dem Himmel bist; Über allen Gipfeln ist Ruh - Keith Lewis (ten), David Harper (pno) (Trust TRI 3002)

  St Francis of Assisi preaching to the birds - BBC Phil/Gianandrea Noseda (Chandos CHAN 10524)

• 10:00 AM. The Works

  HAYDN: Symphony No 87 in A - Lower Austria Tonkünstler Orch/Kristjan Järvi (Preiser PR 90765)

  PALOMO: Concierto de Cienfuegos - Romero Guitar Quartet, Seville Royal SO/Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos (Naxos 8.572139)

• 11:00 AM. Music Mountain

  Performances recorded at the 2010 season of the Music Mountain Chamber Music Festival in Falls Village, Connecticut

  Twenty-six programmes

  (17) Parnas-Serkin Trio: Madalyn Parnas (vln), Cicely Parnas (cello), Peter Serkin (pno)

  DEBUSSY: Violin Sonata in G minor; RAVEL: Piano Trio in A minor; CHOPIN: First movement, Allegro moderato, from Cello Sonata in G minor Op 65 (Keystone Productions)

• Noon The Critic's Chair

  Robert Johnson reviews recent releases (RNZ)

• 1:00 PM. Vintage Years

  Vintage Beethoven

  BEETHOVEN: Violin Sonata No 9 in A Op 47, Kreutzer - Joseph Szigeti (vln), Béla Bartók (pno) (rec 1940) (Andante RE A 1090)

  Symphony No 8 in F Op 93 - Cologne Radio SO/Otto Klemperer (rec 1955) (Tahra TAH 636-637)

• 2:00 PM. The Sunday Feature

  Handel's Other Half

  Elric Hooper & Des Wilson look at the revival of interest in the operas of Handel (RNZ)

• 3:00 PM. Opera on Sunday

  Metropolitan Opera Season

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

  (9) ADAMS: Nixon in China, an opera in three acts

  In 1972 Richard Nixon made an unexpected visit to the People's Republic of China which proved to be an important step towards the normalization of relations between the United States and China. This opera centres on the six main personalities involved in this moment of history and their motivations and reactions

  Richard Nixon............... James Maddalena

  Pat Nixon...................... Janis Kelly

  Chou En-lai................... Russell Braun

  Mao Tse-tung............... Robert Brubaker

  Henry Kissinger............. Richard Paul Fink

  Chiang Ch'ing................ Kathleen Kim

  Nancy T'sang................ Ginger Costa-Jackson

  Second secretary........... Teresa S Herold

  Third secretary.............. Tamara Mumford

  Metropolitan Opera Chorus & Orch/John Adams (EBU)

• 7:00 PM. Jan Preston, Boogie Woogie Keyboard Queen

  Jan Preston, classically trained pianist and former Kiwi pop-star is today a sought after composer of film and documentary soundtracks and considered one of Australia's finest exponents of the 'boogie woogie', rhythm and blues style.She's won four Best Female Blues Artist and Blues Artist of the Year awards and three for best Film Score. Her latest soundtrack was for Home By Christmas, written and produced by her sister, well known film-maker Gaylene Preston, and based around the life of their father. Producer Keith Newman talks to Jan Preston about her colourful career (RNZ)

• 8:00 PM. Young New Zealand

  The Big Sing 2010

  Nine programmes

  (9) Gala Concert

  Craighead Chorale, Voix de Femmes, SOS, Choralation, Resolutions, Angels Awaken, Saints Alive, Cantabile, Southern Hesperides, Teal Voices, Euphony, OK Chorale, Riccarton Singers, Bel Canto, Cantala, Cantrices, Macleans College Choir, Femme, Bella Voce, Saint Cecilia Singers, Lyrical Ladies, Sweet Sixteen, Voicemale

  KERN arr Shaw: The way you look tonight; LANGE: Ave Maria; HUDSON/MILLS/DELANGE: Moonglow; HRUSOVSKY: Rytmus; BESTOR arr Klouse: Prayer of the Children; CHILDS: Song of Ruth; MERRILL arr Billingsley: Mambo Italiano; LAURIDSEN: O'e Lass, Il Bel Viso?; KNUDSON: Ka Koropiko; WHITACRE: She weeps over Rahoon; HATFIELD: Tjak!; BURDON: Kei whea mai; ESTEVEZ arr Grau: Mata del anima sola; CHILDS: I am not yours; TRAD arr Page: Niska Banjatrad; HAMILTON: In a glorious garden green; TIBBLES: A boy was born; BOWIE/LINETSKY/RUIZ arr Burcin: Let's dance; FARNELL: Do not stand at my grave and weep; KAIHAU arr Hamilton: Akoako o te Rangi; FUR PATROL/PRIME arr Jones: Lydia/Poi E; ARLEN/HARBURG arr Althouse: Lydia, the Tattooed Lady; WAIMOTU: Te Atua; WEHI: Kua Rongo; ORFF: O fortuna, from Carmina Burana (recorded in the Auckland Town Hall by RNZ)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  D'INDY: Souvenirs - Iceland SO/Rumon Gamba (Chandos CHAN 10464)

  WEBER: Bassoon Concerto in F Op 75 - Jaakko Luoma (bsn), Tapiola Sinfonietta/Jean-Jacques Kantorow (BIS SACD 1620)

  PIERNÉ: Ramuntcho Suite No 1 - BBC Phil/Juanjo Mena (Chandos CHAN 10633)

  11:00 DVORÁK: String Quartet No 13 in G Op 106 - Pavel Haas Quartet (Supraphon SU 4038)

  BRIDGE: The hour glass - Ashley Wass (pno) (Naxos 8.557842)

Next day - Mon 28

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