Sunday 10 March 2013 Rātapu 10 Poutū-te-rangi 2013

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  Disc 1

  HANSON: Symphony No 3 in A minor Op 33; The Lament for Beowulf Op 25; Symphony No 5 Op 43, Sinfonia Sacra - Seattle Chorale & SO/Gerard Schwarz (Delos DE 3709)

  1:10 approx - Disc 2

  GARDNER: Petite Suite Op 245; McCABE: Domestic Life; LAWSON: Song of the Lesser Twayblade; LEIGHTON: Concerto Op 88; LANE: Suite Champêtre; MELLERS: Aubade; MILFORD: Two Pipe Tunes; KAY: Mr Pitfield's Pavane; DODGSON: Concerto Chacony - John Turner (rec), Keith Elcombe (hpschd), Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland (ASV CD WHL 2143)

  2:20 approx - Disc 3

  VANHAL: Missa Pastoralis in G; Missa Solemnis in C - Mary Haines (sop), Nina Stoddart (contralto), Colin Ainsworth (ten), Steven Pitkanen (bass), Voices New Zealand, Aradia Ensemble/Uwe Grodd (Naxos 8.555080)

  3:35 approx - Disc 4

  BACH: Keyboard Concertos, No 1 in D minor BWV1052; No 5 in F minor BWV1056; Concerto for two harpsichords & strings BWV1060; Concerto in C for three harpsichords & strings BWV1064; Concerto in A minor for four harpsichords & strings BWV1065 - Raymond Leppard, Andrew Davis, Philip Ledger, Blandine Verlet (hpschds), English CO/Raymond Leppard (Philips 422 497)

  4:45 approx - Disc 5

  GRIEG: Lyric Pieces, Op 12; Op 38; Op 43; Op 47 - Gerard Oppitz (pno) (RCA 09026 61568)

• 6:00 AM. Sanctuary

  PALESTRINA: Exultate Deo; MONTEVERDI: Cantate Domino; BYRD: Haec Dies - Choir of Trinity College, University of Melbourne/Michael Leighton Jones (dir) (ABC Classics ABC 472 310)

  AUFSCHNAITER: Sonata St Luke Op 4/7 - Ars Antiqua Austria/Gunar Letzbor (dir) (Arcana A 313)

  DUBRA: Oculus non vidit; Ave Maria (No 1) - Choir of Royal Holloway/Rupert Gough (Hyperion CDA 67799)

  FARR: Etude No 3, from Three Etudes - Jeremy Fitzsimons (marimba) (Trust MMT 2058)

  THOMPSON: Alleluia - Harvard University Choir/Murray Forbes Somerville (ASV CD DCA 1125)

  PURCELL: My song shall be alway - Stephen Varcoe (bass), Capella Brugensis, Collegium Instrumentale Brugense/Patrick Peire (Eufoda 1329)

  RUTTER: The Lord is my Shepherd, from Requiem - Cambridge Singers, City of London Sinfonia/John Rutter, Quentin Poole (ob) (Collegium COL CD 100)

  FINZI: Introit in F - Lesley Hatfield (vln), Northern Sinfonia/Howard Griffiths (Naxos 8.553566)

  HUMMEL ed Hogger: Mass in D Op 111 - Collegium Musicum 90 Choir & Orch/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 0681)

  SCHUBERT trans Maisky: Du bist die Ruh' D776 - Mischa Maisky (cello), Daria Hovora (pno) (DG 449 817)

• 8:00 AM. Grace Notes

  MOZART: Third movement, Adagio, from Clarinet Quintet in A K581 - Sharon Kam (basset cl), Isabelle van Keulen, Ulrike-Anima Mathé (vlns), Volker Jacobsen (vla), Gustav Rivinius (cello) (Berlin Classics 001667)

  LISZT: Liebestraum No 3 in Ab - Lang Lang (pno) (Sony 88697 89140)

  VERACINI: Fourth movement, Largo, from Violin Sonata in A Op 2/6 - Nicola Benedetti (vln), Catherine Rimmer (cello), Thomas Dunford (lute), Christian Curnyn (hpschd/dir) (Decca 476 434)

  COPLAND: Vocalise for flute & piano - Alexa Still (fl), Susan DeWitt Smith (pno) (Koch International 3-7144)

  VILLA-LOBOS: Prelude No 1 in E minor - Carlos Bonell (gtr) (Upbeat Classics URCD 140)

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

  ENESCU: Sérénade Lointaine - Trio Brancusi (Zig Zag ZZT 303)

  CATALANI: Ebben?...Ne andrò lontana, from La Wally - Renée Fleming (sop), London Phil/Charles Mackerras (Decca 475 094)

  SPOHR arr Wojciechowski: Adagio in F, from Sonata Concertante Op 115 - Karen Geoghegan (bsn), Philip Edward Fisher (pno) (Chandos CHAN 10703)

• 9:00 AM. Composer of the Week

  GIUSEPPE VERDI (1813-1901)

  A repeat of last Sunday's programme marking the 200th anniversary of the birth of the composer, presented by Clarissa Dunn (RNZ)

• 10:00 AM. The Works

  SCHUBERT: Introduction & Variations on Trockne Blumen, from Die schöne Müllerin - Uwe Grodd (fl), Matteo Napoli (pno) (Naxos 8.570754)

  PROKOFIEV: Symphony No 4 in C Op 112 (rev version 1947) - London SO/Valery Gergiev (Philips 475 7655)

• 11:00 AM. Chamber Music at Lincoln Center

  Thirteen programmes hosted by Elliott Forrest, with commentary by the Chamber Music Society's Artistic Director, David Finckel, recorded in New York City

  (7) Bruch/Beethoven

  BRUCH: Eight Pieces for clarinet, viola & piano Op 83, excerpts - David Shifrin (cl), Paul Neubauer (vla), Anne-Marie McDermott (pno)

  BEETHOVEN: String Quartet in Eb Op 74, Harp - Jupiter String Quartet: Nelson Lee, Meg Freivogel (vlns), Liz Freivogel (vla), Daniel McDonough (cello) (WFMT)

• Noon The Critic's Chair

  Dianne James reviews recent releases (R Fri 7.00pm) (RNZ)

• 1:00 PM. The Sunday Feature

  Galina Vishnevskaya (1926-2012)

  Roger Flury and Des Wilson discuss the extraordinary life and career of the Russian soprano who died in December (RNZ)

• 3:00 PM. Opera on Sunday

  Metropolitan Opera Season

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

  (10) DONIZETTI: L'elisir d'amore, an opera in two acts

  A lovesick peasant boy gets help from a quack doctor and his magic potion, but the real elixir is Donizetti's charming score

  Nemorino..................... Matthew Polenzani

  Adina........................... Anna Netrebko

  Belcore......................... Mariusz Kwiecien

  Dr Dulcamara.............. Erwin Schrott

  Giannetta..................... Anne-Carolyn Bird

  Metropolitan Opera Chorus & Orch/Maurizio Benini (EBU)

• 6:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ performers and composers

  LILBURN: Drysdale Overture - New Zealand SO/William Southgate (Continuum CCD 1076)

  TCHEREPNIN: Cello Sonata No 1 Op 29 - Alexander Ivashkin (cello), Geoffrey Tozer (pno) (Chandos CHAN 9770)

  PAINE: Finchdean - Bruce Paine (gtr) (Private)

  COLLET: Concerto Flamenco for violin & orchestra - Régis Pasquier (vln), Royal SO, Seville/Gary Brain (Claves CD 50-9801)

• 7:00 PM. New Horizons

  Ten programmes

  (2) With William Dart (RNZ)

• 8:00 PM. Young New Zealand

  University of Auckland Chamber Music Society Competition 2012, Final

  QUANTZ: Trio Sonata in C; TELEMANN: Trio Sonata in C TWV42/C1 - Ella Tunnicliffe-Glass (baroque fl), Imogen Morris (rec), Nicholas Sutcliffe (hpschd)

  BOZZA: Jour d'été à la montagne; BECKMANN: Uptime - Susan Jung, Pearl Huang, Hye-Won Suh, Leah Channon (fls)

  BEETHOVEN: Piano Trio No 6 in Eb Op 70/2 - Kento Isomura (pno), Shauno Isomura (vln), Yoon Bee Jee (cello)

  CRUMB: Vox Balaenae (Voice of the Whale) - Abigail Sperling (fl), Robert Drage (cello), Liam Wooding (pno) (recorded in the University of Auckland Music Theatre by RNZ)

• 9:40 PM. Recent Bach Releases

  Keyboard Concerto No 7 in G minor BWV1058 - Matthew Halls (hpschd/dir), Retrospect Ensemble (Linn CKD 410)

  Prelude & Fugue No 13 in F# BWV882, from The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2 - András Schiff (pno) (ECM 2270)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  TCHAIKOVSKY: Hamlet, Fantasy Overture - Dortmund Phil/Jac van Steen (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 601 1668)

  J STRAUSS II: Tales from the Vienna Woods - Wilfried Scharf (zither), Vienna SO/Yakov Kreizberg (Pentatone PTC 5186 052)

  HAYDN: Symphony No 85 in Bb, La Reine - Handel & Haydn Society/Harry Christophers (Coro COR 16104)

  11:00 RAVEL: String Quartet in F - Medici String Quartet (Koch Classics 3-6436)

  BRAHMS: Clarinet Sonata in Eb Op 120/2 - Alan Hacker (cl), Richard Burnett (pno) (Saydisc CD SAR 37)

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