Sunday 27 May 2012 Rātapu 27 Haratua 2012

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  Disc 1

  TELEMANN: Concerto in A for two violins; Concerto in D for four violins; Concerto in A minor for recorder, viola da gamba & strings; Concerto in G minor for recorder & strings; Concerto in C for four violins; Concerto in E minor for recorder, flute & strings - Musica Antiqua Cologne/Reinhard Goebel (DG 439 444)

  1:15 approx - Disc 2

  GERSHWIN: Strike Up the Band; Rhapsody in Blue; Prelude No 1; Piano Concerto in F, Allegro Agitata; An American in Paris; Prelude No 3; Medley from Porgy & Bess; Fascinating Rhythm; Lullaby; Promenade; Cuban Overture - Sarah Vaughn (vocalist), André Previn (pno), Yo-Yo Ma (cello), Boston Pops Orch/John Williams, New York Phil/Leonard Bernstein (Sony MLK 64060)

  2:20 approx - Disc 3

  BACH: Christmas Oratorio Parts 1-3 - Monika Frimmer (sop), Yoshikazu Mera (countertenor), Gerd Turk (ten), Peter Kooij (bass), Bach Collegium Japan/Masaaki Suzuki (BIS CD 941/2)

  3:35 approx - Disc 4

  BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonatas, No 14 in C# minor Op 27, Moonlight; No 8 in C minor Op 13, Pathétique; No 23 in F minor Op 57, Appassionata - Vladimir Horowitz (pno) (CBS MK 34509)

  4:35 approx - Disc 5

  COATES: Sweet Seventeen; Summer Afternoon; Impressions of a Princess; Salute the Soldier; Two Light Syncopated Pieces, Moon Magic; Rose of Samarkand; For Your Delight; The Unknown Singers; I Sing to You; Coquette; Over to You; Idyll; Under the Stars; By the Tamarisk; Mirage; Last Love; The Greenland - BBC Concert Orch/John Wilson (ASV White Line CD WHL 2107)

• 6:00 AM. Sanctuary

  ANON: Song of the Sibyl - Gisela Bellsolà (contralto), Obsidienne/Emmanuel Bonnardot (dir) (Opus 111 OPS 30-130)

  GIORGINAKIS: Therismos, from Greek Memories - Arada Guitar Duo (Landor LAN 284)

  LISZT arr Janácek: Mass in Bb - Christ Church Cathedral Choir/Stephen Darlington, Clive Driskill-Smith (org) (Griffin GCCD 4042)

  KREBS: Chorale Prelude, Herr Jesu Christ - Neil Black (ob), Peter Hurford (org) (Argo 430 208)

  TRAD: Veni creator spiritus - The Sixteen/Harry Christophers (Coro COR 16077)

  MEWS: A sound came from heaven - Graduate Choir/Terence Maskell (Atoll ACD 407)

  RUTTER: Come down, O love divine - Polyphony/Stephen Layton (Hyperion CDA 67259)

  WF BACH: Sinfonia & Cantata, Dies ist der Tag - Barbara Schlick (sop), Claudia Schubert (contralto), Wilfried Jochens (ten), Stephan Schreckenberger (bass), Rhineland Kantorei, Kleine Konzert/Herman Max (Capriccio 10 426)

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

• 8:00 AM. Grace Notes

  LIADOV: A Musical Snuffbox - Scottish National Orch/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHAN 8804)

  ANON arr Vartabed/orch Shoujounian: You are a profound mystery - Isabel Bayrakdarian (sop), Elmer Iseler CO/Raffi Armenian (CBC SMCD 5215)

  WHITEHEAD: Lullaby for Matthew - David Guerin (pno) (SOUNZ Volume 1)

  GLAZUNOV: Chant du Ménestrel - Shauna Rolston (cello), Calgary Phil/Mario Bernardi (CBC SMCD 5153)

  GLUCK: Che farò senza Euridice? from Orpheus & Euridice - Andreas Scholl (countertenor), Orch of the Age of Enlightenment/Roger Norrington (Decca 466 196)

  GAUTIER DE COINCY: Douce Dame - Ian Harrison (cornetto), Harp Consort/Andrew Lawrence-King (Harmonia Mundi HMU 90 7317)

  TCHAIKOVSKY: Second movement, Andantino semplice, from Piano Concerto No 1 in Bb minor Op 23 - Vladimir Ashkenazy (pno), London SO/Lorin Maazel (Decca 466 462)

  MOZART: Third movement, Adagio, from Serenade No 10 in Bb K361, Gran Partita - Amadeus Wind Ensemble (Naxos 8.551135)

  RESPIGHI: Pastorale in A, after a Tartini Violin Sonata - Michael Erxleben (vln/dir), New Berlin CO (Capriccio 10 563)

• 9:00 AM. Composer of the Week

  A look at the life and music of IGNAZ PLEYEL (1757-1831) presented by Dianne James (R Mon 7.00pm) (RNZ)

  Prussian Quartet No 8 in F - Pleyel Quartet, Cologne (CPO 777 315)

• 10:00 AM. Music@Menlo

  Bridging the Ages

  Six programmes from the 2007 three-week California summer music festival

  (3) SCHNITTKE: Moz-Art (based on Mozart sketches K416d) - Ian Swensen, Joseph Swensen (vlns)

  RAVEL: Violin Sonata in G - Ian Swensen (vln), Gilbert Kalish (pno)

  BRAHMS: Piano Quartet No 1 in G minor Op 25 - Gilbert Kalish (pno), Ian Swensen (vln), Paul Neubauer (vla), Colin Carr (cello) (Music@Menlo Live 2007/3)

• 11:10 AM. The Works

  FINZI arr Ashmore: Five Bagatelles Op 23 - Robert Plane (cl), Northern Sinfonia/Howard Griffiths (Naxos 8.553566)

  GROFÉ: Grand Canyon Suite - Cincinnati Pops Orch/Erich Kunzel (Telarc CD 80086)

• Noon The Critic's Chair

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

• 1:00 PM. Vintage Years

  Vintage French

  CHAUSSON: Poème Op 25 - Jascha Heifetz (vln), RCA Victor SO/Izler Solomon (rec 1952) (IDIS 6546)

  DEBUSSY: Preludes, Book 1 - Alfred Cortot (pno) (rec 1949) (Appian APR 5572)

  SAINT-SAËNS: Havanaise - Jascha Heifetz (vln), RCA Victor SO/William Steinberg (rec 1951) (IDIS 6546)

• 2:00 PM. The Sunday Feature

  Capriccio and the Reich

  Elric Hooper and Des Wilson discuss Richard Strauss's last opera (RNZ)

• 3:00 PM. Opera on Sunday

  Metropolitan Opera Season

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

  (21) WAGNER: Siegfried, an opera in three acts

  The third music drama of "The Ring of the Nibelung" cycle traces the first adventures of the hero Siegfried and culminates with his discovery of love

  Siegfried........................ Jay Hunter Morris

  Mime............................ Gerhard Siegel

  The Wanderer............... Bryn Terfel

  Alberich........................ Eric Owens

  Fafner........................... Hans-Peter König

  Woodbird..................... Erin Morley

  Erda.............................. Patricia Bardon

  Brünnhilde..................... Deborah Voigt

  Metropolitan Opera Orch/Fabio Luisi (EBU)

• 8:20 PM. Blue Smoke

  The birth of New Zealand popular music, written and presented by Chris Bourke

  Three programmes

  (3) Christchurch After Hours: a celebration of the city's vibrant music scene in the 1950s and early 1960s (RNZ)

• 9:20 PM. Compositional Collectives

  Variations on a Russian folk song, with individual variations composed by Atsybuschev, Scriabin, Glazunov, Rimsky-Korsakov, Liadov, Vitols, Blumenfeld, Ewald, Winkler & Sokolov - Kuss Quartet (Onyx 4090)

  BRAHMS/DIETRICH/SCHUMANN: FAE Sonata in A minor - Isabelle van Keulen (vln), Ronald Brautigam (pno) (Koch Schwann 3-6554)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  GIULIANI: Guitar Concerto No 3 in F Op 70 - Paolo Pugliese (gtr), Ensemble Ottocento/Andrea Rognoni (dir) (Brilliant Classics 92621)

  BEETHOVEN: Symphony No 8 in F Op 93 - Vienna Phil/Christian Thielemann (Sony 88697 92717)

  11:00 LISZT: Duo Sonata for violin & piano - Ingolf Turban (vln), Lukas Maria Kuen (pno) (Oehms Classics OC 415)

  HUMMEL: Clarinet Quartet in Eb - Fabrizio Meloni (cl), Andrea Pecolo (vln), Luca Ranieri (vla), Mario Finotti (cello) (Naxos 8.554280)

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