Sunday 16 December 2012 Rātapu 16 Hakihea 2012

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  Disc 1

  ELGAR: Symphony No 2 in Eb - Hallé Orch/James Loughran; Serenade in E minor - ASMF/Neville Marriner (ASV CD QS 6087)

  1:10 approx - Disc 2

  ALKAN: Études Nos 1-7; Nocturne in Bb; Allegro Barbero; Assez vivement; J'était endormie, mais mon coeur veillait; Le staccatissimo; Les cloches; Les soupirs; En songe; Gros temps; Barcarolle; Le chanson de la folle au bord de la mer; Le temps qui n'est plus - Jack Gibbons (pno) (ASV CD DCS 227)

  2:25 approx - Disc 3

  The Concerto Cologne Christmas Album

  M-A CHARPENTIER: Noels pour les instruments; J STAMITZ: Sinfonia pastorale Op 4/2; CORELLI: Concerto Grosso in G minor Op 6/8; VEJVANOVSKY: Sonata natalis in C; VIVALDI: Concerto in E RV270; BACH: Sinfonia, from Christmas Oratorio BWV248; VIVALDI: Concerto for 2 violins, mandolin & strings in D; TORELLI: Concerto Grosso Op 8/6 - Anna Torge (mandolin), Markus Hoffman (vln), Concerto Cologne/Martin Sandhoff, Markus Hoffman, Hannes Rux

  (Berlin Classics 030 0276 BC)

  3:35 approx - Disc 4

  CPE BACH: Trio Sonatas, in B minor; in G; in D minor; in A; in C - Le Nouveau Quatuor (Amon CD SAR 44)

  4:40 approx - Disc 5

  MOZART: Piano Concerto No 9 in Eb K271; BELLINI: Oboe Concerto in Eb; WEBER: Clarinet Concerto No 2 in Eb; F STRAUSS: Horn Concerto Op 8 - Leon McCauley (pno), Nicholas Daniel (ob), Michael Collins (cl), David Pyatt (horn), BBC Phil/Adrian Leaper (BBC MUSIC MM 46)

• 6:00 AM. Sanctuary

  BRITTEN: Interlude, from A Ceremony of Carols - Carolyn Mills (harp) (Atoll ACD 602)

  PÄRT: Bogoroditse Devo - Theatre of Voices, Pro Arte Singers/Paul Hillier (Harmonia Mundi HMU 90 7242)

  KUHNAU: Magnificat in C - Miah Persson (sop), Akira Tachikawa (countertenor), Gerd Türk (ten), Chiyuki Urano (bass), Bach Collegium Japan/Masaaki Suzuki (BIS CD 1011)

  CHILCOTT: The shepherd's carol; And every stone shall cry - BBC Singers/Bob Chilcott (Signum SIGCD 100)

  FALCONARA: Pastorale; BRAHMS: Chorale Prelude, Es ist ein' Ros' entsprungen - Elisabeth Roloff (organ of the Franciscan Convent of St Catharina, Bethlehem) (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 320 1345)

  RUTTER: Of a rose, a lovely rose; Esurientes, from Magnificat - Patricia Forbes (sop), Cambridge Singers, City of London Sinfonia/John Rutter (Collegium CSCD 504)

  LILBURN: Two Christmas Pieces for LB (1949) - Dan Poynton (pno) (Trust MMT 2053)

  STRAVINSKY: Choral Variations on Vom Himmel hoch - Ghent Collegium Vocale, Royal Flemish Phil/Philippe Herreweghe (PentaTone PTC 5186 349)

  POULENC: Four Christmas Motets - Polyphony/Stephen Layton (Hyperion CDA 67623)

  RHEINBERGER arr Cullen: Cantilena, from Organ Sonata No 11 in D minor - Julian Lloyd Webber (cello), Royal Phil/James Judd (Philips 462 588)

  LAURIDSEN: Ave dulcissima Maria - men of Polyphony/Stephen Layton, Morten Lauridsen (finger cymbals) (Hyperion CDA 67580)

  CALMEL: Magnificat - Calliope Women's Choir/Régine Théodoresco, Carine Clément (org) (Calliope CAL 4301)

• 8:00 AM. Grace Notes

  ELGAR: Elegy Op 58 - New Philharmonia/John Barbirolli (EMI CDC 7 47537)

  GLUCK: Menuet & Dance of the Blessed Spirits, from Orpheus & Euridice - Emmanuel Pahud, Juliette Hurel (fls), Rotterdam Phil/Yannick Nézet-Séguin (EMI 4 57814)

  LEHÁR: Vilja's Song, from The Merry Widow - Malvina Major (sop), New Zealand SO/William Southgate (Kiwi CD SLC 221)

  KREISLER: Schön Rosmarin - Anne-Sophie Mutter (vln), Lambert Orkis (pno) (DG 471 500)

  PURCELL arr Stokowski: When I am laid in earth, from Dido & Aeneas - Royal Phil/Leopold Stokowski (Newton 880 2025)

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

  K JENKINS: Adiemus - Miriam Stockley, Mary Carewe (vocalists), Mike Taylor (quena), London Phil/Karl Jenkins (Venture SANCT 1)

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

  SIBELIUS: The Swan of Tuonela, from Lemminkäinen Legends Op 22 - Philadelphia Orch/Eugene Ormandy (EMI CDC 7 47636)

• 9:00 AM. Composers of the Week

  For the final Composer of the Week programme for 2012 we take a look at British Christmas Music, presented by Peter Watts (R Sun 7.00pm) (RNZ)

  TRAD arr Hillier: The Cherry Tree Carol; HILLIER: There is no rose - Theatre of Voices/Paul Hillier (Harmonia Mundi HMX 297 7079)

  RUTTER: Donkey Carol; Wild Wood Carol - Gerald Finley (bar), Cambridge Singers, City of London Sinfonia/John Rutter (Collegium CSCD 510)

  TRAD arr Vaughan Williams: The truth from above; arr Willcocks: Sussex Carol - Chichester Cathedral Choir/Sarah Baldock, Mark Wardell (org) (Herald HAVPCD 350)

• 10:00 AM. Saint Paul Sunday

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

  (13) Leif Ove Andsnes (pno)

  SCHUMANN: Four Piano Pieces Op 32; BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata No 31 in Ab Op 110; MOMPOU: Canción y Danza No 1; LISZT: Valse Impromptu in Ab S213 (American Public Media)

• 11:00 AM. The Works

  PROKOFIEV: Symphony No 6 in Eb minor Op 111 - Finnish Radio SO/Sakari Oramo (Ondine ODE 1181)

  Piano Concerto No 1 in Db Op 10 - John Browning (pno), Boston SO/Erich Leinsdorf (Testament SBT2 1376)

• Noon The Critic's Chair

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

• 1:00 PM. Vintage Years

  POPPER attrib Haydn: Cello Concerto in C - Sviatoslav Knushevitsky (cello), Moscow SO/Alexander Gauk (rec 1950) (Brilliant Classics 8924)

  JOLIVET: Pastorale de Noël - Jacques Castagner (fl), Gérard Faisandier (bsn), Lily Laskine (harp) (rec 1957) (Accord 476 7783)

  TCHAIKOVSKY: The Nutcracker, Suite - Royal Phil Thomas Beecham (rec 1954) (Sony SMK 87875)

• 2:00 PM. The Sunday Feature

  Secular Christmas Music

  In his series Choral Connections Brian Kay looks at music associated with Christmas that has nothing to do with Christ's Nativity (RNZ)

• 3:00 PM. Opera on Sunday

  PUCCINI: Madama Butterfly, an opera in two acts

  Madama Butterfly....... Mirella Freni

  Pinkerton..................... Luciano Pavarotti

  Suzuki.......................... Christa Ludwig

  Sharpless...................... Robert Kerns

  Goro............................. Michel Sénéchal

  Bonze........................... Marius Rintzler

  Kate Pinkerton............. Elke Schary

  Prince Yamadori.......... Giorgio Stendoro

  Commissioner.............. Hans Helm

  Yakuside...................... Wolfgang Schneider

  Registrar...................... Siegfried Rudolf Frese

  Konzertvereinigung, Vienna State Opera Chorus, Vienna Phil/Herbert von Karajan (Decca 417 578)

• 5:40 PM. Papillons

  O'CONNOR arr Meyer: Butterfly's Day Out - Mark O'Connor (mdln), Yo-Yo Ma (cello), Edgar Meyer (dbass) (Sony SK 68460)

  COWEN: The Butterfly's Ball, Concert Overture - Czechoslovak State Phil, Kosice/Adrian Leaper (Marco Polo 8.223273)

• 6:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ performers and composers

  BACH: Canonic Variations on Vom Himmel hoch BWV769 - Gillian Weir (organ of St Luke's Episcopal Church, Fort Collins, Colorado) (Priory PRCD 753)

  STRAUSS: Piano Quartet in C minor Op 13 - New Zealand Piano Quartet (Hill Records 001)

• 7:00 PM. The Shed, A Whole New World of Music

  Four programmes from the award-winning former BBC broadcaster Mark Coles who presents his pick of the best new music releases and demos from around the planet (4) (MCM)

• 8:00 PM. Young New Zealand

  Morag Atchison (sop), Kate Spence (mezzo), Thomas Atkins (ten), Moses Mackay (bass), New Zealand Youth Choir, NSZO National Youth Orch/Wyn Davies

  A TAYLOR: feel; TIPPETT: A Child of Our Time (recorded in the CBS Arena, Christchurch by RNZ)

• 9:25 PM. Solo Viola

  FAURÉ arr Rysanov: Romance in A Op 69; DEBUSSY arr Borisovsky: Clair de lune, from Suite Bergamasque; DUBUGNON: Lied Op 44b - Maxim Rysanov (vla), Ashley Wass (pno) (BIS SACD 1773)

  TCHAIKOVSKY arr Rysanov: Variations on a Rococo Theme - Maxim Rysanov (vla), Swedish CO/Muhai Tang (BIS SACD 1843)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  MOZART: Piano Sonata No 11 in A K331 - Michael Endres (pno) (Oehms OC 253)

  KROMMER: Oboe Concerto in F Op 37 - Sarah Francis (ob), London Mozart Players/Howard Shelley (Hyperion CDA 66411)

  HAYDN: Divertimento in C HobII/7 - London Wind Soloists (Testament SBT 1346)

  11:00 SCHUBERT: Violin Sonatina in A minor D385 - Gidon Kremer (vln), Oleg Maisenberg (pno) (Newton 880 2067)

  RIES: Flute Quartet No 1 in D minor WoO35 - Oxalys (Fuga Libera FUG 576)

Next day - Mon 17

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