Sunday 12 May 2013 Rātapu 12 Haratua 2013

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  Disc 1

  VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis; Partita for double string orchestra; Fantasia on Greensleeves; In the Fen Country; The Lark Ascending - London Festival Orch/Ross Pople (ASV CD DCA 779)

  1:10 approx - Disc 2

  POULENC: Humoresque; Three Novelettes; Villageoises; 15 Improvisations; Intermezzo No 2 in Db; Intermezzo No 1 in C; Suite Française d'apres Claude Gervaise; Presto in Bb; Melancolie; Theme & Variations - Eric Parkin (pno) (Chandos CHAN 8847)

  2:20 approx - Disc 3

  GESUALDO: Tenebrae Responses for Good Friday 1611, First nocturne, Second nocturne, Third nocturne - Taverner Choir & Consort/Andrew Parrott (Sony SK 62977)

  3:30 approx - Disc 4

  HAYDN: Sun Quartets Op 20, No 1 in Eb; No 2 in C; No 3 in G minor - Salomon String Quartet (Hyperion CDA 66621)

  4:45 approx - Disc 5

  ROSENBERG: Marionetter, Overture; BIZET: Carmen Suite No 1; LARSSON: Dagens stunder; GLINKA: Ruslan & Ludmilla, Overture; SATIE orch Debussy: Two Gymnopédies; SHOSTAKOVICH: Festive Overture; SVENDSEN: Romance for violin & orchestra; ALFVÉN: Vallflickans dans, from Bergakungen - Malmö SO/James DePriest (BIS CD 570)

• 6:00 AM. Sanctuary

  MASKATS: Da ispravitsja molitva moja - Monta Martinsone (sop), Gundars Dzilums (bar), Edgars Saksons (perc), Latvian Radio Choir/Sigvards Klava (GB Records BCGBCD 07)

  MONTERO: Continuum - Gabriela Montero (pno) (EMI 5 14838)

  BACH: Cantata No 11, Praise God in all his kingdoms - Ann Monoyios (sop), Daniel Taylor (countertenor), Frederick Urrey (ten), Christòpheren Nomura (bar), Bach Choir of Bethlehem, Bach Festival Orch/Greg Funfgeld (Dorian DOR 90306)

  CALDINI: Christe - Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet (Channel Classics CCS SA 25707)

  DURUFLÉ: Four Motets on Gregorian themes Op 10 - Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge/Richard Marlow (Chandos CHAN 10357)

  PEETERS: Missa Festiva Op 62 - Lichfield Cathedral Choir, Lichfield Cathedral Chamber Choir/Philip Scriven, Alex Mason (org) (Regent REGCD 241)

  Matins for the Feast of the Ascension

  STANFORD: Caelos ascendit hodie; ROSE: The Preces; BARNBY: Psalm 24; BRITTEN: Festival Te Deum in E; SCHÜTZ: Psalm 100; ROSE: The Responses; VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: O clap your hands - Choir of Westminster Abbey/James O'Donnell, Robert Quinney (org) (Hyperion CDA 67680)

• 8:00 AM. Grace Notes

  VERDI: La Traviata, Prelude to Act III - Berlin Phil/Claudio Abbado (DG 457 627)

  BACH arr Koopman: Erbarme Dich, from St Matthew Passion - Yo-Yo Ma (cello), Amsterdam Baroque Orch/Ton Koopman (dir) (Sony SK 60680)

  PUCCINI: E lucevan le stelle, from Tosca - Salvatore Licitra (ten), London SO/Carlo Rizzi (Sony SK 89923)

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

  HUMPERDINCK: Children's prayer, from Hänsel & Gretel - New York Phil/Leonard Bernstein (Sony MLK 62617)

  CHOPIN: Etude in Ab Op 25/1, Aeolian Harp - Murray Perahia (pno) (Sony SK 61885)

  FAURÉ: In paradisum, from Requiem Op 48 - Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge/Richard Marlow, Richard Pearce (org) (Conifer 75605 51521)

  ROBERTS: An English Elegy - Roland Roberts (vln), City of Oxford Orch/Levon Parikian (Quartz QTZ 2036)

  SCHUBERT: Rosamunde, Entr'acte to Act III - Das Neue Orch/Christoph Spering (Opus 111 OPS 30-192)

• 9:00 AM. Composer of the Week

  RICHARD WAGNER (1813-1883)

  The first of two programmes marking the bicentenary of Wagner's birth, presented by Heath Lees (R Mon 7.00pm) (RNZ)

  Rienzi, Overture - Philadelphia Orch/Wolfgang Sawallisch (EMI CDC 5 56165)

  The Messengers of Peace, from Rienzi, Act 2

  Rienzi........................... Lars Cleveman

  First Messenger............ Marianne Hellgren Staykov

  Chorus of the Royal Swedish Opera, Royal Swedish Orch/Leif Segerstam (Naxos 8.557714)

• 10:00 AM. Music@Menlo

  Returning to Mozart

  Seven programmes from the 2006 three-week California summer music festival

  (3) Mozart and the String Quartet

  MOZART: Five four-part Fugues K405; Adagio & Fugue in C minor K546; String Quartet No 16 in Eb K428; String Quintet No 3 in C K515 - Orion String Quartet (Music@Menlo 2006/3)

• 11:25 AM. 20th Century France

  FRANÇAIX: L'Horloge de flore - Lajos Lencsés (ob), Stuttgart Radio SO/Uri Segal (CPO 999 779)

  RAVEL: Boléro - Minnesota Orch/Eiji Oue (Reference Recordings-92 CD)

• Noon The Critic's Chair

  Peter Walls reviews recent releases (R Fri 7.00pm) (RNZ)

• 1:00 PM. Vintage Years

  DOHNÁNYI: Piano Concerto No 2 in B minor Op 42 - Ernst von Dohnányi (pno), Royal Phil/Adrian Boult (rec 1956) (Praga PRD 250 231)

• 1:30 PM. The Sunday Feature

  Fearful Symmetries

  This coming Thursday night the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra's live concert features music from the 1940s. To give a background to this decade Roger Smith and a selection of New Zealand experts survey musical landmarks and innovative movements in the arts during the 1940s, The Age of Anxiety (RNZ)

• 3:00 PM. Opera on Sunday

  Metropolitan Opera Season

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

  (19) WAGNER: Die Walküre, an opera in three acts from our Composer of the Week

  The Valkyrie Brünnhilde sacrifices her divinity to human emotions as the gods of Valhalla move closer to destruction in part two of the epic Ring of the Nibelung

  Siegmund..................... Simon O'Neill, Andrew Sritheran

  Sieglinde...................... Martina Serafin

  Hunding....................... Hans-Peter König

  Wotan.......................... Mark Delavan

  Fricka........................... Stephanie Blythe

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

  Gerhilde....................... Deborah Mayer

  Ortlinde....................... Wendy Bryn Harmer

  Waltraute..................... Jennifer Johnson Cano

  Helmwige.................... Molly Fillmore

  Siegrune....................... Eve Gigliotti

  Grimgerde.................... MaryAnn McCormick

  Rossweisse................... Rebecca Ringle

  Schwertleite……….Mary Phillips

  Metropolitan Opera Orch/Fabio Luisi (EBU)

• 8:30 PM. Young New Zealand

  Yuuki Bouterey-Ishido (cello), Jun Bouterey-Ishido (pno)

  BEETHOVEN: Variations on Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen from Mozart's The Magic Flute; BRAHMS: Cello Sonata No 2 in F Op 99 (recorded in the Centennial Theatre, Auckland Grammar School by RNZ)

• 9:15 PM. An Evening Idyll

  DELIUS: Idylle de printemps - Royal Scottish National Orch/Andrew Davis (Chandos CHAN 10742)

  EVANS arr Goodman: Idyll - Isador Goodman (pno), Melbourne SO/Patrick Thomas (ABC Classics 442 374)

  GLAZUNOV: Idyll - Christoph Ess (horn), Zemlinsky Quartet (Praga PRD 250 281)

  ELGAR: Une Idylle Op 4/1 - Ashley Wass (pno) (Naxos 8.570166)

  BUTTERWORTH: Two English Idylls - London Phil/Adrian Boult (Lyrita SRCD 245)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  BACH: French Suite No 5 in G BWV816 - Angela Hewitt (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67121/2)

  TELEMANN: Flute Concerto in B minor TWV51/h1 - Karl Kaiser (fl), Frankfurt La Stagione/Michael Schneider (CPO 777 402)

  HANDEL: Music for the Royal Fireworks - Le Concert des Nations/Jordi Savall (Alia Vox AVSA 9860)

  11:00 DE FOSSA: Guitar Trio No 3 in F - Simon Wynberg (gtr), Martin Beaver (vln), Bryan Epperson (cello) (Naxos 8.550760)

  SCHUMANN: Piano Quartet in Eb Op 47 - Mozart Piano Quartet (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 943 17126)

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