Schedule for Sunday 22 May 2011

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12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

Disc 1
MOZART: Symphony No 40 in G minor K550; Symphony No 41 in C K551, Jupiter - English Baroque Soloists/John Eliot Gardiner (Philips 426 315)
1:15 approx - Disc 2
SCHUBERT: Fantasia in C D934; STRAVINSKY: Duo Concertante; PROKOFIEV: Sonata for violin solo Op 15; RAVEL: Sonata for violin & piano; SATIE: Choses vues a droite et a guache; MILHAUD: Le Printemps - Gidon Kremer (vln), Elena Bashkirov (pno) (Philips 426 387)
2:30 approx - Disc 3
Sacred music by Mozart, Bach, Haydn, Eybler, Mendelssohn, Schubert, Fauré, Handel, & Verdi - Max Emanuel Cencic, Benjamin Schmidinger (trebles), Vienna Boys' Choir, Chorus Viennensis, Vienna Folkopera CO (Philips 438 871)
3:35 approx - Disc 4
ROSSINI: Ballet music from The Siege of Corinth, Moses, William Tell & Othello - National Orch of the Monte Carlo Opera/Antonio de Almeida (Philips 422 843)
4:50 approx - Disc 5
HANDEL: Oboe Concertos, No 1 in Bb; No 2 in Bb; No 3 in G minor; Concerto grosso in G Op 3/3; Sonata a 5 in Bb; Concerto grosso in C, Alexander's Feast; Overture in D; Hornpipe in D - Heinz Holliger, Neil Black, James Brown (obs), Kenneth Sillito, John Tunnell (vlns), Richard Adenay (fl), Kenneth Heath (cello), Leslie Pearson (org/hpschd), John Constable (hpschd), James Tyler (chitarrone), English CO/Raymond Leppard (Philips 426 082)
6:00 AM. Sanctuary

PÄRT: Spiegel im Spiegel - Lisa Batiashvili (vln), Hélène Grimaud (pno) (DG 477 9299)
LAURIDSEN: Ubi caritas et amor - Polyphony/Stephen Layton (Hyperion SACDA 67449)
ISAAC: O decus ecclesiae - Fretwork (Virgin VC 5 45217)
PADILLA: Mirabilia testimonia tua - The Sixteen/Harry Christophers (Coro COR 16059)
RR BENNETT: Missa Brevis - Cambridge Singers/John Rutter (Collegium CSACD 901)
PHILIPS: O crux splendidior; SHEPHARD: Jesu, dulcis memoria - Choir of Wellington Cathedral/Philip Walsh, Andrew MacMillan (org) (Herald HAVP CD 191)
MENDELSSOHN: St Paul Op 36, Part 1, excerpts - Maria Cristina Kiehr (sop), Werner Güra (ten), Michael Volle (bass), Stuttgart Chamber Choir, Bremen, German Chamber Phil/Frieder Bernius (Carus 83.214)
8:00 AM. Grace Notes

MOERAN: Whythorne's Shadow, from Two Pieces for Small Orchestra - English CO/Jeffrey Tate (EMI CDC 7 47945)
RHEINBERGER arr Cullen: Cantilena, from Organ Sonata No 11 in D minor - Julian Lloyd Webber (cello), Royal Phil/James Judd (Philips 462 588)
BACH: Chaconne, from Violin Partita No 2 in D minor - Monica Huggett (vln) (Virgin VCD 5 45205)
BOLZONI: Minuet - Detroit SO/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHAN 9227)
FAURÉ: Après un rêve - Keith Lewis (ten), Michael Houstoun (pno) (Trust MMT 2006)
WOLF-FERRARI: Intermezzo, from The Jewels of the Madonna - BBC Phil/Gianandrea Noseda (Chandos CHAN 10634)
FOERSTER: Erinnerung - Jana Bousková (harp), Stamic Quartet (Supraphon SU 4050)
GIBBS: Almayne, from Four Harmonisations for String Orchestra - Guildhall Strings/Robert Salter (vln/dir) (Hyperion CDA 67093)
9:00 AM. Composer of the Week

New ZealandMusic Week
Philip Norman looks at the life and music of New Zealand composer DOUGLAS LILBURN (1915-2001) (R Mon 7.00pm) (RNZ)
Drysdale Overture - New Zealand SO/James Judd (Naxos 8.557697)
Sings Harry - Terence Finnigan (ten), Frederick Page (pno) (Kiwi EC-26)
10:00 AM. Chamber Music at Lincoln Center

Twenty-one programmes hosted by Elliott Forrest, with commentary by the Chamber Music Society's Artistic Director, David Finckel, recorded in New York City
(3) DVORÁK: Miniatures Op 75a - Daniel Phillips, Kristin Lee (vlns)
TCHAIKOVSKY: String Quartet No 2 in F Op 22 - Borodin Quartet (WFMT)
11:00 AM. The Works

J STAMITZ: Symphony in Eb - NZSO CO/Donald Armstrong (dir) (Naxos 8.553194)
KHACHATURIAN: Piano Concerto in Db - Annette Servadei (pno), London Phil/Joseph Giunta (RegisC 1300)
Noon The Critic's Chair

Robert Johnson reviews recent releases (RNZ)
1:00 PM. Vintage Years

Vintage New Zealand
WALTON: Partita for Orchestra - New Zealand SO/William Walton (rec 1964) (Bridge 9133A/B)
ELGAR: Violin Sonata in E minor Op 82 - Max Rostal (vln), Colin Horsley (pno) (rec 1954) (Testament SBT 1319)
Inia Te Wiata (bass)
MOZART: O Isis & Osiris, from The Magic Flute - with London Theatre Orch/Vilem Tausky
MUSSORGSKY: Pimen's recitation, from Boris Godunov - with Royal Opera House, Covent Garden Orch/Gennady Rozhdestvensky (rec early 1970s)
Song of the Flea - with BBC Concert Orch/Sidney Torch (rec early 1950s) (Atoll ACD 507)
2:00 PM. The Sunday Feature

The Stars are Comforting
The letters of Beatrice Hill Tinsley (1941-1981)
Her research into the Evolution of Galaxies made Beatrice Tinsley a giant of 20th century astronomy. Throughout her life Beatrice also played her violin and wrote home to her family
Twenty programmes, with letters edited by Theodora Lee-Smith and read by Tina Regtien
(8) Two children, chamber music, orchestra and a little astrophysics; 1968 (RNZ)
3:00 PM. Opera on Sunday

Metropolitan Opera Season

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

(21) STRAUSS: Ariadne auf Naxos, an opera in two acts

Strauss and Hofmannsthal wrote a one-act opera based on the legend of Ariadne to be performed following a production of Moliere's Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme but the evening’s entertainment proved to be far too long. Hofmannsthal then devised his own prologue and this version has been performed ever since then

Ariadne......................... Anna Tomowa-Sintow

Zerbinetta..................... Kathleen Battle

Harlequin...................... Urban Malmberg

Scaramuccio.................. Josef Protschka

Truffaldino.................... Kurt Rydl

Brighella........................ Hans Sojer

Composer..................... Agnes Baltsa

Music Master................ Hermann Prey

Bacchus......................... Gary Lakes

Dancing Master............. Heinz Zednik

Wigmaker...................... Günter von Kannen

Footman....................... Alfred Sramek

Officer........................... Ewald Aichberger

Major Domo.................. Otto Schenk

Najade.......................... Barbara Bonney

Dryade.......................... Helga Müller Molinari

Echo.............................. Dawn Upshaw

Vienna Phil/James Levine (DG 419 225)
6:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

NZ musicians and composers
FARR: Le Temps est à la Pluie - New Zealand SO/Kenneth Young (Trust MMT 2021)
J RITCHIE: Sweet & Sour - Bridget Douglas (fl) (Trust MMT 2063-64)
HEENAN: Cindy - Alex Lindsay String Orch/Alex Lindsay (Kiwi CD SLD 107)
HOGAN: Chasing the White Whale - Toru Guitar Quartet (Manu CD MANU 5003/04)
BESSER: Klez - Isidor Saslav (vln), Besser Ensemble (Besser Music)
NORMAN: The flight & the stars; Cold & darkness; Warmth & light; The Sun King; The journey continues; The Lost Boys, from Peter Pan - Wellington Orch/Kenneth Young (RNZB)
7:00 PM. Blue Smoke

The birth of New Zealand Pop
Chris Bourke presents a four-part series
(1) Canaries and Crooners (RNZ)
8:00 PM. Young New Zealand

NZSO Todd Corporation Young Composers Award 2010
New ZealandSO/Luke Dollman
Jonathan MANDENO: Primordial Chaos; Matthew CHILDS: Polgara's Lament; Robbie ELLIS: Fanfare; Thomas JENSEN: Trench; Arna SHAW: Headache; Corwin NEWALL: Avalanche; Alex TAYLOR: Six Pieces for Orchestra; Lizzie DOBSON: Planare; Umar ZAKARIA: The Persistence of our Youth; Joanie CHUNG YEE LEE: Wind Reflection (recorded in Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington by RNZ)
10:00 PM. Day's End

HUMMEL: The Magic Castle, Suite - London Mozart Players/Howard Shelley (Chandos CHAN 10415)
WITT: Flute Concerto in G Op 8 - Patrick Gallois (fl/dir), Sinfonia Finlandia (Naxos 8.572089)
VAUGHANWILLIAMS: Concerto Grosso - strings of New Zealand SO/James Judd (Naxos 8.555867)
11:00 BRAHMS: Clarinet Quintet in B minor Op 115 - James Campbell (cl), Allegri String Quartet (Cala CACD 1009)
CHOPIN: Nocturnes Op 62 - Amir Katz (pno) (Oehms OC 779)