Sunday 29 April 2012 Rātapu 29 Paenga-whāwhā 2012

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  Disc 1

  SHOSTAKOVICH: Symphony No 5; Overture on Russian & Kirghiz themes; Novorossisk Chimes, from The Fire of Eternal Glory; Symphonic Poem, October - Royal PO/Enrique Batiz (ASV CD DCA 707)

  1:15 approx - Disc 2

  BACH: Sonata in G minor BWV1030; TELEMANN: Trio Sonata in Eb; VIVALDI: Sonata in C minor RV53; COUPERIN: Concerto No 6; CPE BACH: Sonata in C minor for oboe & harpsichord - Douglas Boyd (ob), Harold Lester (hpschd/org), Roderick Elms (hpschd), Richard Lester (cello) (ASV CD DCA 656)

  2:25 approx - Disc 3

  Bid Adieu

  Irish Songs by HUGHES; JOYCE; PENDLETON; BEETHOVEN; MOERAN; BERLIOZ; BARBER; RIETTI; HEAD; BAX and TRAD - Ann Murray (mezzo), Graham Johnson (pno) (Forlane 16784)

  3:30 approx - Disc 4

  MOZART: Piano Sonatas, in F K533; Bb K281; D K311 and C K309 - András Schiff (pno) (Decca 417 572)

  4:40 approx - Disc 5

  NIELSEN: Symphony No 5; Helios Overture Op 17; SIBELIUS: Spring Song Op 16; Night Ride & Sunrise Op 55 - Royal Scottish National Orch/Alexander Gibson (Chandos CHAN 6533)

• 6:00 AM. Sanctuary

  LAURIDSEN: Introitus, from Lux aeterna - Nordic Chamber Choir/Nicol Matt, Jörg Halubek (org) (Bayer BR 100 305)

  VIVANCO: Missa In manus tuas - Choir & Orchestra of the Renaissance/Michael Noone (Glossa GCD 921 405)

  SCHUBERT: Offertorium in Bb D963 - Marius Brenciu (ten), Lisbon Gulbenkian Foundation Chorus & Orch/Lawrence Foster, Pedro Ribeiro (ob) (PentaTone PTC 5186 359)

  HANDEL: Gloria in Bb - Gillian Keith (sop), English Baroque Soloists/John Eliot Gardiner (Philips 462 597)

  G JACKSON: Salve Regina 2 - Polyphony/Stephen Layton (Hyperion CDA 67708)

  RHEINBERGER: Marian Hymns Op 171 - Lydia Teuscher (sop), Christine Müller (mezzo), Annette Markert (contralto), Götz Payer (pno) (Carus 83.431)

  PÄRT: The Beatitudes - Elora Festival Singers/Noel Edison, Jurgen Petrenko (org) (Naxos 8.557299)

  HOWELLS: Te Deum & Benedictus (St George's, Windsor) - Choir of Wells Cathedral/Malcolm Archer, Rupert Gough (org) (Hyperion CDA 67494)

• 8:00 AM. Grace Notes

  DEBUSSY orch Ravel: Sarabande, from Pour le Piano - Royal Flemish Phil/Daniele Callegari (Talent DOM 2929 95)

  ROTA arr Lencsés: Elegy - Lajos Lencsés (ob), Arcata CO, Stuttgart/Patrick Strub (Hänssler CD 98.467)

  PURCELL: When I am laid in earth; With drooping wings, from Dido & Aeneas - Janet Baker (mezzo), Thurston Dart (hpschd), St Anthony Singers, English CO/Anthony Lewis (Decca 478 0320)

  BRAHMS: Chorale Prelude, Schmücke dich, o liebe Seele - Douglas Mews (organ of Wellington Town Hall) (Priory PRCD 1030)

  BOLZONI: Minuet - Detroit SO/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHAN 9227)

  FRANCK arr Boustead: Panis angelicus, from Mass for three voices - Kiri Te Kanawa (sop), English CO/Barry Rose (Decca 468 503)

  TCHAIKOVSKY arr Meshchaninov: Melody, from Souvenir d'un lieu cher - Vytautas Sondeckis (cello), Lithuanian CO/David Geringas (Naxos 8.554381)

  SMETANA: Vltava, from Má Vlast - New Zealand SO/James Sedares (RNZ)

• 9:00 AM. Composer of the Week

  Murray Khouri takes a look at the life and music of CONSTANT LAMBERT (1905-1951) (R Mon 7.00pm) (RNZ)

  The Bird Actors, Overture - English Northern Philharmonia/David Lloyd-Jones (Hyperion CDA 67545)

  orch Easterbrook/Shipley: Piano Concerto - Jonathan Plowright (pno), English Northern Philharmonia/David Lloyd-Jones (Hyperion CDA 67545)

• 10:00 AM. Saint Paul Sunday

  Six programmes in which Bill McGlaughlin talks with chamber musicians in the studio

  (5) Matt Haimovitz (cello), Jean Marchand (pno)

  BACH: Fourth & Sixth movements, Sarabande; Gigue, from Cello Suite No 3 in C BWV1009; GOLIJOV: Omaramor; SHOSTAKOVICH: Cello Sonata in D minor Op 40 (American Public Media)

• 11:00 AM. The Works

  MENDELSSOHN: Symphony No 3 in A minor Op 56, Scottish - Winterthur Musikkollegium/Heinz Holliger (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 901 16636)

  WEBER: Concert Piece in F minor Op 79 - Alfred Brendel (pno), London SO/Claudio Abbado (Philips 456 733)

• Noon The Critic's Chair

  David Morriss reviews recent releases (R Fri 7.00pm) (RNZ)

• 1:00 PM. Vintage Years

  LARSSON: Little Serenade - Stockholm Chamber Ensemble (rec 1965) (Swedish Society SCD 1051)

  GRAGNANI: Sonata in F for violin & guitar - Leonid Kogan (vln), Alexander Ivanov-Kramskoy (gtr) (rec 1950) (Melodiya MEL CD 10 00655)

  SALMANOV: Symphony No 2 in G - Leningrad Philharmonia/Evgeny Mravinsky (rec 1960) (IM Lab IMLCD 073/74)

• 2:00 PM. The Sunday Feature

  The Philharmonia Story

  Two programmes in which Murray Khouri profiles the London orchestra which was founded in 1945 by Walter Legge (1) (RNZ)

• 3:00 PM. Opera on Sunday

  Metropolitan Opera Season

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

  (17) VERDI: Macbeth, an opera in four acts

  Verdi's life-long love of the works of Shakespeare has its first expression in this, his tenth opera. When writing to the librettist, Piave, he expressed how important the subject was, "... this tragedy is one of the greatest creations of man ... If we can't make something great out of it let us at least try to do something out of the ordinary"

  Macbeth....................... Thomas Hampson

  Lady Macbeth............. Nadja Michael

  Banquo........................ Günther Groissböck

  Macduff....................... Dimitri Pittas

  Lady-in-waiting........... Claudia Waite

  Malcolm....................... Richard Cox

  Doctor.......................... James Courtney

  Servant......................... Tyler Simpson

  Herald.......................... Brandon Mayberry

  Assassin....................... Donovan Singletary

  Bloody Child............... Jennifer Zetlan

  Metropolitan Opera Chorus & Orch/Gianandrea Noseda (EBU)

• 6:20 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ performers and composers

  More Shakespeare in Music

  MENDELSSOHN: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Overture - New Zealand SO/James Judd (Naxos 8.570794)

  FARQUHAR: Prospero Dreaming - Gunter Herbig (gtr) (Naxos 8.572185)

  LISZT: Hamlet S104 - New Zealand SO/Michael Halász (Naxos 8.553355)

• 7:00 PM. New Horizons

  Nine programmes

  (8) William Dart looks at new albums from Anais Mitchell, Jim White and Shelley Hirsch (RNZ)

• 8:00 PM. Young New Zealand

  NZSO Todd Corporation Young Composer Awards 2011

  Two programmes

  In September, 13 selected young New Zealand composers had their works performed by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. Janina Nicoll talks to each composer and we hear the recording of their piece

  (2) HANNAH BLUMHARDT: Tensile Strength; ALEX TAYLOR: [Inner]; MARGARIETHA DU PREEZ: Te Putangitangi-a-Tane; JOANIE CHUNG YEE LEE: Earthquake; ALEX CAMPBELL-HUNT: Progress; NATALIE MATIAS: The Crucible, Act 1, Overture - New Zealand SO/Hamish McKeich (recorded in the Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington by RNZ)

• 9:30 PM. Recent Chamber Releases

  SCHUMANN: String Quartet in F Op 41/2 - Gringolts Quartet (Onyx 4081)

  MENDELSSOHN: Song without Words in D Op 109 - Pieter Wispelwey (cello), Paolo Giacometti (pno) (Onyx 4078)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  GRANADOS: Spanish Dances Op 37 Book 4 - Douglas Riva (pno) (Naxos 8.572313)

  CANTELOUBE: Songs of the Auvergne Set 3 - Netania Davrath (sop), orch accompaniment/Pierre de la Roche (Vanguard 08 8002.72)

  HUMMEL: Trumpet Concerto in Eb - Romain Leleu (tpt), Baltic CO/Emmanuel Leducq-Barôme (Aparté AP 025)

  ALBINONI: Sinfonia in G minor - Collegium Musicum 90/Simon Standage (dir) (Chandos CHAN 0602)

  11:00 MOZART: Violin Sonata No 33 in Eb K481 - Jan Tawroszewicz (vln), Diedre Irons (pno) (RNZ)

  HAYDN: String Quartet in D Op 20/4 - Leipzig String Quartet (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 307 1706)

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