Sunday 4 March 2012 Rātapu 4 Poutū-te-rangi 2012

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  Disc 1

  MIASKOVSKY: Symphonies, No 5 in D Op 18; No 9 in E minor Op 28 - BBC Phil/Edward Downes (Marco Polo 8.223499)

  1:15 approx - Disc 2

  M HAYDN: String Quintets, in Bb; in C; in G - L'Archibudelli (Sony SK 53987)

  2:30 approx - Disc 3

  PURCELL: Ode for the birthday of Queen Mary; Welcome, welcome, glorious morn; Ode for the centenary of Trinity College, Dublin; Great parent, hail to thee; Welcome song for King Charles II; The summer's absence unconcerned we bear - Gillian Fisher, Evelyn Tubb (sops), James Bowman, Nigel Short (countertenors), Roger Covey-Crump, John Mark Ainsley (tens), Michael George, Charles Pott (basses), King's Consort/Robert King (Hyperion CDA 66476)

  3:40 approx - Disc 4

  MOSONYI: Twelve Genres for piano; Studies for piano - István Kassai (pno) (Marco Polo 8.223557)

  4:55 approx - Disc 5

  PUCCINI: Capriccio Sinfonico; First Minuet for strings; Edgar, Prelude; Second Minuet for strings; Edgar, Prelude to Act III; Third Minuet for strings; Preludio Sinfonico; I crisantemi for strings; Manon Lescaut, Intermezzo from Act III; E l'uccellino - Royal Phil/Jacek Kaspszyk (Collins 11652)

• 6:00 AM. Sanctuary

  PÄRT: Da pacem Domine - Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir/Paul Hillier (Harmonia Mundi HMU 90 7401)

  PÄRT: Spiegel im Spiegel - Gidon Kremer (vln), Naoko Yoshino (harp) (Philips 456 016)

  Lovefeast for Lent: A Moravian Lenten selection by KELLNER, HERBST, GAMBOLD, GEISLER, DENCKE, & HERBST - Cyndia Sieden, Sharon Baker (sops), Boston Baroque Chorus & Orch/Martin Pearlman (Telarc CD 80482)

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

  MENDELSSOHN: Psalm 22 - Mária Zádori (sop), Jutta Bokor (contralto), József Mukk (ten), József Moldvay (bass), Vox Humana Choir of Vác/József Maklári (Somili SBD 9801)

  SHEPPARD: The Soul Rests Eternal, excerpts - Caroline Dale (cello), English CO/Steve Sidwell (Signum SIGCD 232)

  DURUFLÉ: Messe Cum jubilo - Thomas Herford (bar), Mark Williams (org), Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge/Richard Marlow (Chandos CHAN 10357)

  BACH arr Kempff: Chorale Prelude, Ich ruf' zu dir BWV639; arr Howe: Sheep may safely graze, from Cantata No 208; arr Hewitt: Chorale Prelude, Alle Menschen müssen sterben BWV643 - Angela Hewitt (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67309)

  MISKINIS: Pater noster - Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge/Stephen Layton (Hyperion CDA 67747)

• 8:00 AM. Grace Notes

  PAGANINI: Cantabile in D - Pekka Kuusisto (vln), Ismo Eskelinen (gtr) (Ondine ODE 1142)

  GRIEG arr Reger: Ich liebe dich Op 5/3 - Yvonne Kenny (sop), Melbourne SO/Vladimir Kamirski (ABC Classics 454 511)

  MACDOWELL arr Frost: To a wild rose, from Woodland Sketches - Philadelphia Orch/Eugene Ormandy (Sony SBK 63034)

  HAMELIN: Con intimissimo sentimento; Ländler I; Album Leaf; Music Box; After Pergolesi; Berceuse - Marc-André Hamelin (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67789)

  DELIUS: On hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring - Hallé Orch/Mark Elder (Hallé CD HLL 7512)

  OURKOUZOUNOV: Makedonski pesen, from Four legends - Cavatina Duo (Cedille CDR 90000 117)

  VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: The Lark Ascending - Michael Bochmann (vln), English String Orch/William Boughton (Nimbus NI 1754)

• 9:00 AM. Composer of the Week

  Ryan Smith introduces two weeks of music marking the 150th anniversary of the birth of CLAUDE DEBUSSY (1862-1918) (R Sun 7.00pm) (RNZ)

• 10:00 AM. Music@Menlo

  Being Mendelssohn

  Six programmes from the 2009 three-week Californian summer music festival, which marked the 200th anniversary of Mendelssohn's birth

  (3) LIGETI: Six Bagatelles for Wind Quintet - Carol Wincenc (fl), William Bennett (ob), Anthony McGill (cl), Dennis Godburn (bsn), William Vermeulen (horn)

  JALBERT: Piano Trio - Wu Han (pno), Arnaud Sussmann (vln), David Finckel (cello)

  BRAHMS: Piano Quartet No 2 in A Op 26 - Gilbert Kalish (pno), Yehonatan Berick (vln), Paul Neubauer (vla), David Finckel (cello) (Music@Menlo Live 2009/3)

• 11:20 AM. Seascapes

  BRITTEN: Four Sea Interludes, from Peter Grimes - Philharmonia/Carlo Maria Giulini (EMI 7 67723)

  BADALBEYLI: The Sea - Farhad Badalbeyli (pno), Royal Phil/Dmitry Yablonsky (Naxos 8.572666)

  HUBICKI: From the isles of the sea - Daniel Pailthorpe (fl), James Kirby (pno) (Chandos CHAN 10322)

• Noon The Critic's Chair

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

• 1:00 PM. Vintage Years

  Pianist Artur Rubinstein

  CHOPIN: Piano Concerto No 2 in F minor Op 21 - with Philharmonia/Carlo Maria Giulini (rec 1961) (BBC BBCL 4105)

  BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata No 23 in F minor, Appassionata; VILLA-LOBOS: O polichinelle, from A prole do bebê, Book 1 (rec 1963) (Medici Arts MM 029)

• 2:00 PM. The Sunday Feature

  Mahler's Last Year

  When Gustav Mahler died on 18 May 1911, his music remained misunderstood except by a small circle of devotees. For almost 50 years it was largely ignored, however today the world listens to Mahler's music.

  Peter Shaw presents two programmes about the composer's final year. It saw the triumphant première of his Eighth Symphony in Munich, the near collapse of his marriage, a fraught period as conductor of the New York Philharmonic and a prolonged struggle with the illness that forced his early retirement and brought him back to Vienna to die at the age of 50 (1) (RNZ)

• 3:00 PM. Opera on Sunday

  Metropolitan Opera Season

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

  (9) PUCCINI: Tosca, an opera in three acts

  When receiving the original libretto of Tosca Puccini demanded a whole list of changes. For example, he disliked the presence of an elaborate aria for Cavaradossi in the torture scene that grew into a full quartet. There was also a "Latin Hymn" for the painter in the last act, an aria in which he sang his farewell to life by reviewing his ideas on art, politics and other academic matters. Puccini cut out both of these, refining Tosca's dramatic timing. It was Puccini's theatrical ideas as well as his music that gave us the Tosca we know today

  Tosca............................ Patricia Racette

  Cavaradossi.................. Marcelo Álvarez

  Scarpia......................... James Morris

  Angelotti....................... Richard Bernstein

  Sacristan....................... Paul Plishka

  Spoletta........................ Joel Sorensen

  Sciarrone...................... James Courtney

  Jailer............................. David Crawford

  Metropolitan Opera Chorus & Orch/Mikko Franck (EBU)

• 6:30 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ musicians and composers

  BARTÓK: Ten Easy Pieces Sz39 - Tamás Vesmás (pno) (Manu CD MANU 1521)

  LILBURN: Allegro for Strings - Ithaca College Festival Orch/Grant Cooper (Kiwi CD SLD 99)

• 7:00 PM. New Horizons

  Nine programmes

  (1) With William Dart (RNZ)

• 8:00 PM. Young New Zealand

  Santiago Canon-Valencia (cello), NZSO National Youth Orch/Tecwyn Evans

  MENDELSSOHN: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Overture; SHOSTAKOVICH: Cello Concerto No 1 in Eb Op 107; GLUCK arr Wagner: Iphigénie en Aulide, Overture; STRAVINSKY: Pulcinella Suite (recorded on 18 February in the Auckland Town Hall by RNZ)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  ARENSKY: Violin Concerto in A minor Op 54 - Ilya Gringolts (vln), BBC Scottish SO/Ilan Volkov (Hyperion CDA 67642)

  H WOOD: Fantasia on British Sea Songs - Leeds Festival Chorus, English Northern Philharmonia/Paul Daniel (Naxos 8.553981)

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

  11:00 JONGEN: Suite Op 48, Poème élégiaque; Final - Nathan Braude (vla), Jean-Claude Vanden Eynden (pno) (Fuga Libera FUG 586)

  FUCHS: Piano Trio No 1 in C Op 22 - Gould Piano Trio (Quartz QTZ 2028)

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