Sunday 13 March 2011 Rātapu 13 Poutū-te-rangi 2011

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  Disc 1

  HAYDN: Trumpet Concerto in Eb HobVIIe/1; Horn Concertos, in D HobVIId/3; in D HobVIId/4; Cello Concerto in C HobVIIb/1 - Håkan Hardenburger (tpt), Hermann Baumann (horn), Heinrich Schiff (cello), ASMF/Neville Marriner, Iona Brown (Philips 432 060)

  1:10 approx - Disc 2

  JANÁCEK: On an Overgrown Path; SMETANA: Trois Polkas de Salon Op 7; Trois Polkas Poétique Op 8; Souvenirs de Bohème en forme de Polkas - Radoslav Kvapil (pno) (Calliope CAL 4206)

  2:20 approx - Disc 3

  SCHUMANN: Leiderkreis Op 39; Aus Den Östlichen Rosen; Die Soldatenbraut; Der Nussbaum; Widmung; Frauenliebe und Leben Op 42; Mignon; Meine Rose; Requiem - Felicity Lott (sop), Graham Johnson (pno) (IMP MCD 22)

  3:35 approx - Disc 4

  MENDELSSOHN: Concert Piece No 2 in D minor Op 114; Rondo Capriccioso Op 14; Songs without Words, in F# minor Op 67/2; in A Op 62/6; in F Op 53/4; in C Op 67/4; Clarinet Sonata in Eb; Songs without Words, Venetian Gondola Song in A minor Op 62/5; Venetian Gondola Song in A (1842); 17 Variations Serieuses Op 54; Concert Piece No 1 in F minor Op 113 - Alan Hacker (cl), Lesley Schatzberger (basset horn), Richard Burnett (pno) (Amon Ra CD SAR 38)

  4:45 approx - Disc 5

  NIELSEN: Helios Overture; Symphonic Rhapsody; Saga-drøm Op 39; An Evening at Giske; Paraphrase on Nearer my God to thee; Bohemian-Danish folk tune; Rhapsody Overture, An imaginary journey to the Foeroe Islands; Pan & Syrinx - Danish National Radio SO/Gennady Rozhdestvensky (Chandos CHAN 9287)

• 6:00 AM. Sanctuary

  LASSUS: Prophetiae Sibyllarum - De Labyrintho/Walter Testolin (Stradivarius STR 33762)

  LASSUS arr Lundgren: Carmina chromatico, from Prophetiae Sibyllarum; ANON arr Lundgren: Vinea Mea - Gustaf Sjökvist Chamber Choir, Jan Lundgren (synth/pno), Lars Danielsson (cello/dbass) (ACT 9457)

  BACH: Missa brevis in A BWV234 - Eugénie Warnier (sop), Magid El-Bushra (contralto), Sydney Fierro (bar), Pygmalion/Raphaël Pichon (Alpha 130)

  GESUALDO: Tenebrae factae sunt - Nordic Voices (Chandos CHAN 0763)

  RHEINBERGER: Three Pieces for cello & organ - Cäcilia Chmel (cello), Stefan Johannes Bleicher (organ of Stadtkirche, Winterthur, Switzerland) (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 901 1643)

  MOZART: Vesperae solennes de confessore K339 - Elin Manahan Thomas (sop), Ruth Massey (contralto), Mark Dobell (ten), Roderick Williams (bar), The Sixteen, ASMF/Harry Christophers (Coro COR 16057)

• 8:00 AM. Grace Notes

  SATIE orch Debussy: Gymnopédie No 1 - New Zealand SO/James Sedares (Universal 399 8782)

  PIAZZOLLA arr Ziegler: Milonga del ángel - Emanuel Ax, Pablo Ziegler (pno duo) (Sony SK 62728)

  GRIEG: The Last Spring Op 34/2 - Henning Kraggerud (vln), Razumovsky SO/Bjarte Engeset (Naxos 8.554497)

  TAVENER: Song for Athene - Westminster Abbey Choir/Martin Neary (Sony SK 66613)

  TRAD arr Meyer: Star of the County Down - Mark O'Connor (vln), Yo-Yo Ma (cello), Edgar Meyer (dbass) (Sony SK 68460)

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

  DEBUSSY arr/orch Kennedy: La fille aux cheveux de lin - Nigel Kennedy (vln/dir), English CO (EMI 5 56923)

  BRIDGE: There is a Willow Grows aslant a Brook - Britten Sinfonia/Nicholas Cleobury (Conifer 75605 51327)

• 9:00 AM. Composer of the Week

  Ryan Smith looks at the life and music of ALAN HOVHANESS (1911-2000) as we celebrate the 100th anniversary of the composer's birth this month (R Mon 7.00pm) (RNZ)

• 10:00 AM. Music Mountain

  Performances recorded at the 2009 season of the Music Mountain Chamber Music Festival in Falls Village, Connecticut

  Twenty-six programmes

  (19) Arianna String Quartet, Gordon String Quartet

  MENDELSSOHN: String Quartet No 1 in Eb Op 12; JANÁCEK: String Quartet No 2, Intimate Letters;

  DVORÁK: String Quintet in G Op 77; String Quartet No 11 in C Op 61, excerpt (Keystone Productions)

• Noon The Critic's Chair

  Recent releases reviewed by Phil Brownlee & Thomas Goss (RNZ)

• 1:00 PM. Vintage Years

  Vintage Czech

  KREJCÍ: Serenade - Czech Phil/Karel Ancerl (rec 1957) (Supraphon SU 3697-2 001)

  SMETANA: Czech Song - Czech Phil Choir & Orch/Václav Talich (rec 1954) (Supraphon SU 3822)

  PAUER: Bassoon Concerto - Karel Bidlo (bsn), Czech Phil/Karel Ancerl (rec 1956) (Supraphon SU 3697-2 001)

• 2:00 PM. The Sunday Feature

  Le Grande Macabre

  An introduction to Ligeti's opera presented by Simon Romanos (RNZ)

• 3:00 PM. Opera on Sunday

  Metropolitan Opera Season

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

  (11) GLUCK: Iphigénie en Tauride, an opera in four acts

  Gluck reinterpreted the ancient Greek myth in this innovative masterpiece. It's a powerful story about rejecting the limitations of the past and insisting on a better future

  Iphigénie....................... Susan Graham

  Oreste........................... Plácido Domingo

  Pylade........................... Paul Groves

  Thoas............................ Gordon Hawkins

  Diane............................ Julie Boulianne

  First priestess................ Lei Xu

  Second priestess........... Cecelia Hall

  Minister/Scythian........... David Won

  Metropolitan Opera Chorus & Orch/Patrick Summers (EBU)

• 6:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ musicians and composers

  J RITCHIE: Papanui Road - New Zealand SO/Marc Taddei (Trust MMT 2040)

  RACHMANINOV: Morceaux de Salon Op 2 - Alexander Ivashkin (cello), Rustem Hayroudinoff (pno) (Chandos CHAN 10095)

  CPE BACH: Quartet in A minor Wq93 - Extempore (Atoll ACD 204)

  HOLST: St Paul's Suite - London Festival Orch/Ross Pople (ASV CD DCA 782)

• 7:00 PM. New Horizons

  Ten programmes

  (2) William Dart looks at recent releases from P J Harvey, Jessica Lea Mayfield and Smoke Fairies (RNZ)

• 8:00 PM. Young New Zealand

  Gisborne Music Competition 2010

  Three programmes

  (2) Performances from the semi-final

  BEETHOVEN: First movement, Allegro, from Violin Sonata No 5 in F Op 24; BACH: Third movement, Sarabande, from Violin Partita No 2 in D minor BWV1004 - Jonathan Tanner (vln), Kirsten Simpson (pno) FAURÉ: Impromptu in Db Op 86 - Ingrid Bauer (harp) BACH: Fourth & Sixth movements, Sarabande; Gigue, from Cello Suite No 2 in D minor BWV1008 - Karol Kowalik (cello)

  BOURDEAU: Premier Solo - Kylie Nesbit (bsn), Bruce Greenfield (pno)

  RAVEL: Tzigane; BACH: First movement, Grave, from Violin Sonata No 2 in A minor BWV1003 - Gefu Fox Chen (vln), Sarah Watkins (pno)

  BLOCH: First movement, Rapsodie, from Suite Hébraïque; GLAZUNOV: Elegy in G minor Op 44 - Byrony Gibson-Cornish (vla), Sarah Watkins (pno) FARQUHAR: Earth, Air, Water; TCHAIKOVSKY: Valse-scherzo - Jonathan Mui (vln), Sorina Zamfir (pno) (recorded in Gisborne War Memorial Theatre by RNZ)

• 9:20 PM. Recent Russian Piano Releases

  KABALEVSKY: Piano Sonata No 3 in F Op 46 - Christoph Deluze (pno) (Praga 250 279)

  LYAPUNOV: Piano Concerto No 1 in Eb minor Op 4 - Shorena Tsintsabadze (pno), Russian Phil/Dmitry Yablonsky (Naxos 8.570783)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  IRELAND ed Mackerras: The Overlanders, Suite - London Phil/Adrian Boult (Lyrita SRCD 240)

  RIES: Flute Quartet in C Op 145/1 - John Herrick Littlefield (fl), Aaron Boyd (vln), Ah Ling Neu (vla), Yari Bond (cello) (Naxos 8.570330)

  FOOTE: Four Character Pieces after The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám - Seattle Symphony/Gerard Schwartz (Naxos 8.559365)

  11:00 SOLER: Quintet No 4 in A minor - David Schrader (hpschd), Chicago Baroque Ensemble (Cedille CDR 90000 030)

  GATTI: Sextet in Eb - Calamus Ensemble (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 603 1589)

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