Sunday 9 October 2011 Rātapu 9 Whiringa-ā-nuku 2011

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  Disc 1

  RACHMANINOV: Piano Concerto No 3 in D minor Op 30; PROKOFIEV: Piano Concerto No 3 in C Op 26 - Martha Argerich (pno), RIAS SO, Berlin Phil/Riccardo Chailly (Artists Live FED 049)

  1:05 approx - Disc 2

  DVORÁK: Five Bagatelles for two violins, cello & harmonium Op 47; String Quintet in Eb Op 97; Terzetto in C for two violins & viola Op 74 - Robert Ireland (harmonium), Patrick Ireland (vla), Lindsay String Quartet (ASV CD DCA 806)

  2:15 approx - Disc 3

  Fairest Work of Happy Nature

  BLOW: Songs & Keyboard Music - John Mark Ainsley (ten), Timothy Roberts (spinet/hpschd/chamber org), Paula Chataeuneuf (theorbo/baroque gtr) (Hyperion CDA 66646)

  3:35 approx - Disc 4

  BAX: Cello Sonata in Eb; Folk-Tale; Sonatina in D; Legend-Sonata in F# minor - Bernard Gregor-Smith (cello), Yolande Wrigley (pno) (ASV CD DCA 896)

  4:50 approx - Disc 5

  TCHAIKOVSKY: Serenade in C for strings Op 48; String Quartet No 1 in D Op 11; Elegy; Scherzo in C minor Op 42/2 - Kremlin CO/Misha Rachlevsky (Claves CD 50-9116)

• 6:00 AM. Sanctuary

  TALLIS: O nata lux - The Sixteen/Harry Christophers (Chandos CHAN 0513)

  LAURIDSEN: O nata lux - Elora Festival Singers/Noel Edison (Naxos 8.559304)

  BACH: Cantata No 82, Ich habe genug - Thomas Quasthoff (bbar), Berlin Baroque Soloists, Albrecht Mayer (ob), Rainer Kussmaul (vln/dir) (DG 477 6159)

  DURUFLÉ: Prélude, Adagio et Choral varié - Hans Fagius (organ of Aarhus Cathedral, Denmark) (BIS CD 1304)

  PARSONS: Ave Maria; BRITTEN: A Hymn to the Virgin - Gabrieli Consort/Paul McCreesh (DG 477 6605)

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

  ANON: Ubi caritas - Matthew Barley (cello) (Black Box BBM 1068)

  IPPOLITOV-IVANOV: Liturgy of St John Chrysostom - Chamber Choir Lege Artis/Boris Abalyan (Sony SMK 64091)

• 8:00 AM. Grace Notes

  VERDI: La Traviata, Prelude to Act I - Mexico SO/Enrique Bátiz (ASV CD DCA 856)

  TCHAIKOVSKY: Nocturne in D minor Op 19/4 - Nina Kotova (cello), Moscow CO/Constantine Orbelian (Philips 462 612)

  HANDEL trans Kempff: Minuet in G minor - Idil Biret (pno) (Marco Polo 8.223452)

  MENDELSSOHN: Nocturne, from A Midsummer Night's Dream - London Phil/Andrew Litton (EMI CD EMX 9518)

  SHOSTAKOVICH: Romance, from The Gadfly - Tasmin Little (vln), Piers Lane (pno) (EMI 5 66967)

  GÓRECKI: Wislo moja, Wislo szara Op 46 - Lira Chamber Chorus/Lucy Ding (Elektra Nonesuch 7559 79348)

  WOLF-FERRARI: Intermezzo, from The Jewels of the Madonna - New Zealand SO/James Sedares (Universal 99072)

  NAREKATSI: About the bird - Artsvik Demourchian (sop) (Celestial Harmonies 13115)

  PIAZZOLLA orch Bacalov: Adiós Nonino - Luis Bacalov (pno), Héctor Ulises Passarella (bandoneón), St Cecilia National Academy Orch, Rome/Myung-Whun Chung (DG 463 471)

• 9:00 AM. Composer of the Week

  Dianne James takes a look at the chamber & instrumental music of JOHANNES BRAHMS (1833-1897) (R Mon 7.00pm) (RNZ)

  Prelude & Fugue in A minor - Pierre Farago (organ of St Peter's Church, Buxtehude, Germany) (Calliope CAL 9754)

  Variations on a theme of Schumann Op 23 - András Schiff, Georg Solti (pno duet) (Decca 425 110)

• 10:00 AM. Millennium of Music

  The sources and mainstreams of European music from the thousand years before Bach

  Spotlight on the Netherlands

  Five programmes

  (2) Eugène Ferré (lute)

  DUFAULT: Pavane, from Suite in C; GAULTIER: Suite in G; ANON: Prelude; Pavane, from the Saizenay-manuscript c1699; E GAULTIER: Courante; GAULTIER: Fantaisies; Gigue; E GAULTIER: Canaries; GALLOT: Allemande: L'Amant malheureux, from Suite in A minor; DUFAULT: Suite for lute (WFMT)

• 11:00 AM. The Works

  HUMPERDINCK: Hansel & Gretel, Overture - Dresden State Opera Orch/Otmar Suitner (Berlin Classics 018 5772 BC)

  MAHLER: Songs of a Wayfarer - Katarina Karnéus (mezzo), Gothenburg SO/Susanna Mälkki (BIS SACD 1600)

  LILBURN: Symphony No 2 - New Zealand SO/James Judd (Naxos 8.555862)

• Noon The Critic's Chair

  Robert Johnson reviews recent releases (R Fri 7.00pm) (RNZ)

• 1:00 PM. Vintage Years

  CARPENTER: Sea Drift - New York Phil/Leonard Bernstein (rec 1945) (Symposium 1295)

  BENJAMIN: Pastorale, Arioso & Finale - Lamar Crowson (pno) (rec 1960) (Lyrita REAM 2109)

  MENDELSSOHN: Symphony No 5 in D Op 107, Reformation - Cologne Radio SO/Dimitri Mitropoulos (rec 1957) (Medici Masters MM 014-2)

• 2:00 PM. The Sunday Feature

  Douglas, The Landscape of a New Zealand Composer

  Ten-part series reflecting on Douglas Lilburn (1915-2001) through the eyes and ears of his friends, family and colleagues, marking the 10th anniversary of his death in June 2001

  (8) Fashions (RNZ)

• 3:00 PM. Opera on Sunday

  BBC Proms 2011

  18 programmes

  (16) WEBER: Der Freischütz, an opera in three acts

  Max.............................. Andrew Kennedy

  Agathe.......................... Sophie Karthäuser

  Kaspar.......................... Gidon Saks

  Aennchen...................... Virginie Pochon

  Kuno............................ Matthew Brook

  Hermit........................... Luc Bertin-Hugault

  Kilian............................ Samuel Evans

  Ottokar......................... Robert Davies

  Monteverdi Chorus, Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique/John Eliot Gardiner (recorded in the Royal Albert Hall, London by the BBC)

• 6:05 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ musicians and composers

  LILBURN: Piano Sonata (1949) - Dan Poynton (pno) (Trust MMT 2053)

  JANÁCEK arr Breiner: Jenufa, Suite - Vesa-Matti Leppänen (vln), New Zealand SO/Peter Breiner (Naxos 8.570555)

• 7:00 PM. New Horizons

  Ten programmes

  (3) William Dart reviews new releases by June Tabor, Kate Bush and St Vincent (RNZ)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  BBC Proms 2011

  18 programmes

  (17) Janine Jansen (vln), Philadelphia Orch/Charles Dutoit

  SIBELIUS: Finlandia; TCHAIKOVSKY: Violin Concerto in D Op 35; RACHMANINOV: Symphonic Dances Op 45; RAVEL: La Valse (recorded in the Royal Albert Hall, London by the BBC)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  BOCCHERINI: Guitar Quintet in D G448, Fandango - Pepe Romero (gtr), Tristan Fry (perc), Academy Chamber Ensemble (Philips 420 385)

  BERG: Seven early songs, Night; Song amid the reeds; The nightingale; Crowned in dreams; Indoors; Ode to love; Summer days - Claudia Barainsky (sop), Winterthur Musikkollegium/Jac van Steen (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 601 1425)

  11:00 BEETHOVEN: String Quartet in C minor Op 18/4 - Alexander String Quartet (Arte Nova 74321 39103)

  CAPLET: Quintet for piano & winds - Hexagon Ensemble (Etcetera KTC 1259)

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