Schedule for Sunday 19 June 2011

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12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

Disc 1
FARQUHAR: String Quartet; Magpies and Other Birds; Suite for Guitar; In Despite of Death; Echoes and Reflections - John Mills (gtr), David Griffiths (bar), Terence Dennis (pno), New Zealand String Quartet, New Zealand SO/John Matheson (Kiwi CD SLD 88)
1:15 approx - Disc 2
LECLAIR: Overture No 1 in G; Sonata No 1 in B minor; Overture No 2 in D; Sonata No 2 in A; Overture No 3 in D; Sonata No 3 in G minor - Purcell Quartet (Chandos CHAN 0542)
2:25 approx - Disc 3
PALIASHVILI: Liturgy of St John Chrysostom - Cantus Sacred Music Ensemble/Ludmila Arshavskaya (Olympia OCD 483)
3:40 approx - Disc 4
DVORÁK: Piano Trios, in F minor Op 65; in E minor Op 90, Dumky - Emanuel Ax (pno), Young Uck Kim (vln), Yo-Yo Ma (cello) (CBS MK 44527)
4:50 approx - Disc 5
CHOPIN arr Godowsky: Etudes, No 7; 8; 19 and 31 for the left hand, No 45; SCHUBERT arr Godowsky: Good Night; Litany; Music for Rosamunde; STRAUSS arr Godowsky: Serenade; ALBÉNIZ arr Godowsky: Tango; LOEILLES arr Godowsky: Gigue from Renaissance; GODOWSKY: Passacaglia; Prelude & Fugue on BACH for left hand; Etude Macabre; Puppet Shadow Plays; The Gardens of Buitenzorg from Suite Java - Marc-André Hamelin (pno) (Musica Viva MVCD 1026)
6:00 AM. Sanctuary

ANON: Benedicta sit sancta Trinitas; BYRD: Te Deum, from The Great Service; LEIGHTON JONES: O lux beata Trinitas - Choir of Trinity College, University of Melbourne/Michael Leighton Jones (dir) (ABC Classics ABC 476 294)
MENDELSSOHN: Psalm 95 - Stuttgart Chamber Choir, Deutsche Chamber Phil/Frieder Bernius (Carus SACD 83.217)
RHEINBERGER: Sarabande, from Suite for organ, violin & cello Op 149 - Christopher Herrick (org), Paul Barritt (vln), Richard Lester (cello) (Hyperion CDA 66883)
TRAD: Wondrous Love; Sometimes I feel like a Moanin' dove - Robert Shaw Festival Singers/Robert Shaw (Telarc CD 80531)
JANÁCEK: Chorale Fantasie - Clive Driskill-Smith (organ of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford) (Griffin GCCD 4042)
BACH: Jesu, meine Freude BWV227 - Netherlands Chamber Choir/Peter Dijkstra (Channel Classics CCS SA 27108)
PÄRT: Cantate Domino - Theatre of Voices/Paul Hillier, Christopher Bowers-Broadbent (org) (Harmonia Mundi HMU 90 7182)
H PRAETORIUS: Cantate Domino - Bremen Weser-Renaissance/Manfred Cordes (CPO 777 245)
RUTTER: Cantate Domino - Polyphony/Stephen Layton (Hyperion CDA 66947)
STAINER: I saw the Lord - Vasari Singers/Jeremy Backhouse, Jeremy Filsell (org) (Naxos 8.572504)
8:00 AM. Grace Notes

FAURÉ: Sicilienne, from Pelléas & Mélisande - New Zealand SO/John Hopkins (Kiwi CD KML 2)
DVORÁK: Silent Woods - Han-Na Chang (cello), Philharmonia/Leonard Slatkin (EMI 5 57052)
SAINT-SAËNS: Mon coeur s'ouvre à ta voix, from Samson et Dalila - Jennifer Larmore (mezzo), Vienna Radio SO/Bertrand de Billy (Teldec 8573 87193)
TÁRREGA: Recuerdos de la Alhambra - Dejan Ivanovic (gtr) (Naxos 8.557038)
GRIEG: Cowkeeper's tune, from 2 Nordic Melodies Op 63 - National Phil/Willi Boskovsky (London 443 333)
OFFENBACH trans Moszkowski: Barcarolle, from The Tales of Hoffmann - John McArthur (pno) (Boston & Blue Street BAB 10977)
BURLEIGH: Deep River - Lorraine Hunt Lieberson (mezzo), Peter Serkin (pno) (Harmonia Mundi HMU 90 7500)
CHOPIN arr Cullen: Nocturne in Eb Op 9/2 - Julian Lloyd Webber (cello), Royal Phil/James Judd (Philips 462 588)
DARZINS: Valse mélancolique - Detroit SO/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHAN 9227)
9:00 AM. Composer of the Week

Erica Challis presents an overview of the life and music of RICHARD WAGNER (1813-1883) (R Mon 7.00pm) (RNZ)
Tannhäuser, excerpts
Procession into the Hall of Song, Act 2, Scene 4 - Chorus of the Royal Swedish Opera, Royal Swedish Orch/Leif Segerstam (Naxos 8.557714)
Allmächt'ge Jungfrau - Camilla Nylund (sop), Tampere Phil/Hannu Lintu (Ondine ODE 1168)
O du mein holder Abendstern - Thomas Quasthoff (bbar), Orch of the German Opera, Berlin/Christian Thielemann (DG 471 493)
Pilgrims' Chorus & Final Chorus of Younger Pilgrims, Act 3 - Leipzig Radio Chorus, Dresden State Orch/Silvio Varviso (Philips 422 410)
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
(7) SCHUBERT: Des Fischers Liebesgluck D933 - Randall Scarlata (bar), Inon Barnatan (pno)
BEETHOVEN: String Quartet in A minor Op 132 - Pacifica String Quartet (WFMT)
11:00 AM. The Works

BRITTEN: Simple Symphony Op 4 - English CO/Benjamin Britten (London 425 160)
ALWYN: Violin Concerto - Lorraine McAslan (vln), Royal Liverpool Phil/David Lloyd-Jones (Naxos 8.570705)
Noon The Critic's Chair

Robert Johnson reviews recent releases (R Fri 7.00pm) (RNZ)
1:00 PM. Vintage Years

ELGAR: Crown of India Suite - London SO/Edward Elgar (rec 1930) (EMI CDS 7 54564)
WALTON: Symphony No 1 in Bb minor - Philharmonic Promenade Orch (London Phil)/Adrian Boult (rec 1956) (Somm SOMMCD 094)
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
(12) Three months post in Pasadena, back to Dallas, begins Evolution of Galaxies project at Caltech; 1973-4 (RNZ)
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
BIZET: The Pearl Fishers, an opera in three acts
Zurga............................ Gerald Finley
Nadir............................ John Osborn
Leïla.............................. Nicole Cabell
Nourabad..................... Raymond Aceto
Chorus & Orch of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden/Antonio Pappano (recorded in the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London by the BBC)
5:10 PM. Gone Fishing

Li Guo CHUANG: Fisherman's Serenade - Hu Kun (vln), Olga Sitkovetsky (pno) (ASV CD DCA 1068)
GADE: Napoli, or the Fisherman & his Bride, Act 2 - Aalborg SO/Peter Ernst Lassen (Danachord DACOCD 631-639)
TRAD: Singing the Night among Fishing Boats - Takako Nishizaki (vln), Czecho-Slovak Radio SO/Kenneth Jean (Marco Polo 8.223003)
6:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

NZ musicians and composers
CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO: Sonatina for flute & guitar Op 205 - Carol Hohauser (fl), Matthew Marshall (gtr) (Mr M Productions)
RAVEL: Valses nobles et sentimentales - Richard Mapp (pno) (RNZ)
K YOUNG: Brass Quintet No 1 - NZ Brass Quintet (Kiwi SLD 72)
7:00 PM. New Horizons

Ten programmes

(1) William Dart reviews new releases by The Webb Sisters, Kate & Anna McGarrigle, The Majestic Silver Strings, Diana Jones and Greg (RNZ)
8:00 PM. Young New Zealand

Vivian Stephens (vln), New Zealand School of Music Orch/Kenneth Young
CONTAG: Starting the Robot; SIBELIUS: Violin Concerto in D minor Op 47; BARTÓK: Concerto for Orchestra (recorded in Sacred Heart Cathedral, Wellington by RNZ)
9:30 PM. Recent Bach Releases

BACH: Der Geist hilft unsrer Schwachheit auf BWV226; Lobet den Herrn, alle Heiden BWV230 - Berlin Vocalconsort/Marcus Creed (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 2079)
Passacaglia & Fugue in C minor BWV582 - David Goode (organ of Freiberg Cathedral, Germany) (BBC Music BBC MM 331)
10:00 PM. Day's End

BRAHMS: Violin Sonata No 1 in G Op 78 - Arabella Steinbacher (vln), Robert Kulek (pno) (PentaTone PTC 5186 367)
HAYDN: Organ Concerto in F HobXVIII/7 - Ton Koopman (org/dir), Amsterdam Baroque Orch (Philips 416 452)
STRAUSS: Guntram, Prelude to Act 1 - Bamberg SO/Karl Anton Rickenbacher (Koch 3-6520)
11:00 PAGANINI: Ghiribizzi Nos 20-30, Miniatures for guitar - Denis Sungho Janssens (gtr) (Naxos 8.572566)
STANFORD: Piano Quintet in D minor Op 25 - Piers Lane (pno), RTÉ Vanbrugh Quartet (Hyperion CDA 67505)