Sunday 20 March 2011 Rātapu 20 Poutū-te-rangi 2011

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  Disc 1

  BARBER: The School for Scandal, Overture; Symphony No 1 Op 9; BEACH: Symphony in E minor Op 32, Gaelic - Detroit SO/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHAN 8958)

  1:20 approx - Disc 2

  SAINT-SAËNS trans Liszt: Danse Macabre; CHOPIN trans Liszt: Six Polish Songs; BERLIOZ trans Liszt: L'Idée fixe; Les Francs-Juges, Overture; Harold in Italy, Marche des Pelerins; The Damnation of Faust, Waltz of the Sylphes; King Lear, Overture - Leslie Howard (pno) (Hyperion CDA 66346)

  2:35 approx - Disc 3

  HOLST: Seven Part Songs Op 44; A Choral Fantasia Op 51; A Dirge for Two Veterans; Ode to Death Op 38 - Patricia Rozario (sop), Joyful Company of Singers, London Symphony Chorus, City of London Sinfonia/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 9437)

  3:35 approx - Disc 4

  JC BACH: Sonatas, No 1 in G; No 2 in C minor; No 3 in Eb; No 4 in G; No 5 in A; No 6 in Bb - Robert Woolley (fpno) (Chandos CHAN 0543)

  4:50 approx - Disc 5

  BRITTEN: Variations on a theme of Frank Bridge Op 10; Les Illuminations for soprano & string orchestra; Lachrymae, Reflections on a song of Dowland for viola & string orchestra - Christina Högman (sop), Nils-Erik Sparf (vla), New Stockholm Chamber Orch/Péter Csaba (BIS CD 435)

• 6:00 AM. Sanctuary

  VICTORIA: Lamentations for Holy Saturday, excerpts - Nordic Voices (Chandos CHAN 0763)

  SCELSI: Alleluja, from Three Latin Prayers - Frances-Marie Uitti (cello) (ECM 1963)

  FERRANDINI: Cantata, Il pianto di Maria; MARINI: Passacaglio for strings & basso continuo - Bernarda Fink (mezzo), Il Giardino Armonico/Giovanni Antonini (dir) (L'Oiseau-Lyre 478 1466)

  G JACKSON: Ave Maria - Polyphony/Stephen Layton (Hyperion CDA 67708)

  BACH: Chorale Prelude, Allein Gott in der Höh sei Ehr BWV662 - Gillian Weir (organ of the Thomaskirche, Leipzig) (Priory PRCD 800)

  GOUNOD: St Cecilia Mass - Barbara Hendricks (sop), Laurence Dale (ten), Jean-Philippe Lafont (bar), Radio France Choir & New Phil/Georges Prêtre, Jean-Louis Gil (org) (EMI CDC 7 47094)

• 8:00 AM. Grace Notes

  TCHAIKOVSKY: Third movement, Preghiera, from Suite No 4 in G Op 61, Mozartiana - Swiss Romande Orch/Ernest Ansermet (London 440 366)

  LISZT: Concert Study No 3 in Db, Un Sospiro - Michael Houstoun (pno) (Tartar TRL 040)

  FARR: Waipoua - Marina Sturm (cl), New Zealand SO/James Sedares (Universal 399 8782)

  COPLAND: Down a Country Lane - London SO/Aaron Copland (Sony SM2K 47236)

  ORFF arr anon: In trutina, from Carmina Burana - Julian Lloyd Webber (cello), John Lenehan (pno) (EMI 3 59488)

  BERLIOZ: D'amour l'ardente flame, from The Damnation of Faust - Frederica von Stade (mezzo), Chicago SO/Georg Solti (Decca 443 378)

  MIYAGI: Haru No Umi - Susan Hoeppner (fl), Rachel Gauk (gtr) (BIS CD 969)

  DVORÁK: Two Waltzes Op 54 - NZSO CO/Donald Armstrong (dir) (RNZ)

• 9:00 AM. Composer of the Week

  Peter Hoar looks at the life and music of TOMASO ALBINONI (1671-1751) (R Mon 7.00pm) (RNZ)

  Trumpet Sonata in C - John Wallace (tpt), Philharmonia/Christopher Warren-Green (Nimbus NI 1757)

  Oboe Concerto in D minor Op 9/2 - Pierre Pierlot (ob), I Solisti Veneti/Claudio Scimone (Erato 2292 45921)

• 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

  (20) St Petersburg String Quartet, Mark Peshkanov (vln), Doris Stevenson, Alexander Mekinulov (pno)

  SCHULHOFF: Five Pieces for string quartet;  BEETHOVEN: String Quartet in E minor Op 59/2, Razumovsky; CHAUSSON: Concerto for violin, piano & string quartet Op 21; SCHUMANN: Piano Quartet in Eb Op 47, excerpt (Keystone Productions)

• Noon The Critic's Chair

  Recent releases reviewed by Robert Johnson (RNZ)

• 1:00 PM. Vintage Years

  BRAHMS: Variations & Fugue on a theme by Handel Op 24 - Solomon (pno) (rec 1942) (Philips 456 973)

  SUK: Fairy-tale Op 16 - Czech Phil/Václav Talich (rec 1949) (Supraphon SU 3822)

• 2:00 PM. The Sunday Feature

  Richard Greager

  New Zealandtenor Richard Greager has had a long and distinguished career in music and talks with Christine Argyle about some of his experiences (RNZ)

• 3:00 PM. Opera on Sunday

  Metropolitan Opera Season

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

  (12) ROSSINI: Armida, an opera in three acts

  The subject matter for Rossini's 1817 opera Armida was widely popular from the seventeenth through to the early twentieth centuries. Indeed, there are almost 100 operas and ballets that employ the story of the Saracen sorceress and her desire for the Christian warrior, Rinaldo

  Armida.......................... Renée Fleming

  Rinaldo......................... Lawrence Brownlee

  Goffredo....................... John Osborn

  Gernando...................... Antonino Siragusa

  Carlo............................ Barry Banks

  Ubaldo.......................... Kobie van Rensburg

  Metropolitan Opera Chorus & Orch/Riccardo Frizza (EBU)

• 7:00 PM. New Horizons

  Ten programmes

  (3) William Dart reviews Ihimaera – the recent Auckland Festival show and the CD curated by Charlotte Yates, in which 12 artists respond to the writings of Witi Ihimaera (RNZ)

• 8:00 PM. Young New Zealand

  Gisborne Music Competition 2010

  Three programmes

  (3) Performances from the Final

  BACH: Third movement, Andante, from Violin Sonata No 2 in A minor BWV1003; FRANCK: Third movement, Andante, from Violin Sonata in A - Kana Ohashi (vln), Sarah Watkins (pno)

  HAYDN: First movement, Moderato, & Third movement, Allegro molto, from Cello Concerto No 1 in C HobVIIb/1; SCHUMANN: First movement, Nicht zu schnell, from Cello Concerto in A minor Op 129; BACH: Allemande, from Cello Suite No 2 in D minor BWV1008 - Karol Kowalik (cello), Bruce Greenfield (pno)

  SINDING: First movement, Presto, & Second movement, Adagio, from Suite in A minor in the Old Style Op 10; BEETHOVEN: First movement, Presto, & Second movement, Andante scherzoso, più Allegretto, from Violin Sonata No 4 in A minor Op 23; SARASATE: Carmen Fantasy Op 25 - Jonathan Mui (vln), Sorina Zamfir (pno) (recorded in Gisborne War Memorial Theatre by RNZ)

• 9:45 PM. José Serebrier, composer/conductor

  Casi un Tango; Tango in Blue - Bournemouth SO/José Serebrier (Naxos 8.559648)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  MOZART: Symphony No 34 in C K338 - Prague CO/Charles Mackerras (Telarc CD 80190)

  MENDELSSOHN: Andante & Variations in Bb Op 83a - Mi-Joo Lee, Klaus Hellwig (piano duet) (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 904 1653)

  BACARISSE: Concertino in A minor for guitar Op 72 - Narciso Yepes (gtr), Spanish Radio & Television SO/Odón Alonso (DG 439 526)

  11:00 KUMMER: Cello Duet Op 103/4 - Phoebe Carrai, Tanya Tomkins (cellos) (Avie AV 2060)

  FINZI: Let us garlands bring - Christopher Maltman (bar), BBC Scottish SO/Martyn Brabbins (Hyperion CDA 67065)

  CRAS: Quintet for flute, harp & string trio - Linos Harp Quintet (Hänssler CD 93.175)

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