Sunday 19 May 2013 Rātapu 19 Haratua 2013

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  Disc 1

  PROKOFIEV: Romeo & Juliet Suites Nos 1-3 - Armenian Phil/Loris Tjeknavorian (ASV CD DCA 885)

  1:20 approx - Disc 2

  MOZART: Piano Concerto No 6 in Bb K238; Concerto in F for three pianos & orchestra K242; Concerto in Eb for two pianos & orchestra K365 - Malcolm Bilson, Robert Levin, Melvyn Tan (fpnos), English Baroque Soloists/John Eliot Gardiner (Archiv 427 317)

  2:25 approx - Disc 3

  MOZART: Madamina, il catalolo è questo, from Don Giovanni; TCHAIKOVSKY: Gremin's aria, from Eugene Onegin; ROSSINI: La Calunnia è un venticello; A un dottor della mia sorte, from The Barber of Seville; MOZART: La Vendetta; Non pùi andrai; Hai già vinta la causa!; Vedrò, mentr'io sospiro, from The Marriage of Figaro; GOUNOD: Vous qui faites l'endormie, from Faust; BOÏTO: Son lo spirito che nega, from Mefistofele; MOZART: Der Vogelfänger bin ich ja; Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen, from The Magic Flute; VERDI: Ehit! Paggio!…L'onore! Ladri!, from Falstaff; WAGNER: Die Frist ist um, from The Flying Dutchman - Jonathan Lemalu (bar), NZSO/James Judd (EMI 5 57605)

  3:30 approx - Disc 4

  TELEMANN: Suite in G, des Nations anciens et modernes; Concerto in D minor for two chalumeaux; Viola Concerto in G; Sonata for two chalumeaux; Suite in Bb, Volker Overture - Colin Lawson, Michael Harris (chalumeaux), Collegium Musicum 90/Simon Standage (vla) (Chandos CHAN 0593)

  4:45 approx - Disc 5

  J STRAUSS II: Russian March; Slav Potpourri; Five Paragraphs from the Waltz Code; The Favourite, French Polka; Nikolai Quadrille on Russian Themes; Farewell to St Petersburg Waltz; The Imp, Polka-Mazurka; In the Russian Village; Romance, Sweet Tears; Niko Polka - Slovak Radio SO, Bratislava/Michael Dittrich (Marco Polo 8.223234)

• 6:00 AM. Sanctuary

  DUNSTABLE: Veni Sancte Spiritus, Veni Creator Spiritus - Tonus Peregrinus/Antony Pitts (Naxos 8.557341)

  WF BACH: Sinfonia & Cantata, This is the day (Whitsunday Cantata) - Barbara Schlick (sop), Claudia Schubert (contralto), Wilfried Jochens (ten), Stephan Schreckenberger (bass), Rhineland Kantorei, Kleine Konzert/Herman Max (Capriccio 10 426)

  HOVHANESS: Alleluia & Fugue Op 40b - I Fiamminghi/Rudolf Werthen (Telarc CD 80392)

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

  RUTTER: Come down, O love divine; I will lift up mine eyes - Polyphony/Stephen Layton (Hyperion CDA 67259)

  VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Hymn-tune Prelude on Song 13 by Orlando Gibbons - Duncan Honeybourne (pno) (EM Records EMRCD 012/013)

  JACKSON: Missa Matris Dei Op 72 - Exon Singers/Matthew Owens, David Bednall (org) (Delphian DCD 34035)

  SIBELIUS: Andante festivo - Tempera Quartet (BIS CD 1466)

  HUMMEL: Te Deum in D - Chorus Alea, Bratislava Solamente Naturali/Didier Talpain (Brilliant Classics 94115)

• 8:00 AM. Grace Notes

  DELIUS: On hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring - Camerata Wales/Owain Arwel Hughes (BIS CD 1589)

  ALBÉNIZ arr Schaupp: Asturias, from Spanish Suite Op 47 - Karin Schaupp (gtr) (Warner 3984 23306)

  G CHARPENTIER: Depuis le jour, from Louise - Kiri Te Kanawa (sop), Royal Opera House, Covent Garden Orch/Jeffrey Tate (EMI 5 57231)

  SCHUMANN arr Liszt: Widmung - Yundi Li (pno) (DG 471 585)

  RESPIGHI: Aria, from Suite for flute & string orchestra - Sinfonia 21/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 9415)

  MENDELSSOHN: Nocturne, from A Midsummer Night's Dream - Atlanta SO/Yoel Levi (Telarc CD 80318)

  SAINT-SAËNS: Prière - Steven Isserlis (cello), Francis Grier (org) (RCA 09026 61678)

  HANDEL: Waft her, angels, through the skies, from Jephtha - Mark Padmore (ten), English Concert/Andrew Manze (dir) (Harmonia Mundi HMU 90 7422)

• 9:00 AM. Composer of the Week

  RICHARD WAGNER (1813-1883)

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

  The Feast of Pentecost - Lund Student Singers, Malmö Opera Orch/Alberto Hold-Garrido (Naxos 8.572871)

  Wein und Brot des letzten Mahles, from Parsifal (The Grail Chorus, Act 1) - Sybille Kästner (contralto), Dresden Children's Choir, Leipzig Radio Chorus, Dresden State Orch/Silvio Varviso (Philips 422 410)

• 10:00 AM. Music@Menlo

  Returning to Mozart

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

  (4) Mozart and Winds

  JANÁCEK: Mládí - Carol Wincenc (fl), Allan Vogel (ob), Anthony McGill (cl), Carey Bell (bcl), Richard Todd (horn), Frank Morelli (bsn)

  BRAHMS: Piano Quintet No 3 in C minor Op 60 - Gilbert Kalish (pno), Jennifer Frautschi (vln), Paul Neubauer (vla), David Finckel (cello)

  MOZART: Serenade No 12 in C minor K388 - Allan Vogel, Kimaree Gilad (obs), Anthony McGill, Carey Bell (cls), Dennis Godburn, Frank Morelli (bsns), Richard Todd, Brad Warnaar (horns) (Music@Menlo 2006/04)

• 11:25 AM. Pelléas & Mélisande

  SIBELIUS: Incidental music to the play by Maeterlinck Op 46 - Berlin Phil/Herbert von Karajan (DG 410 026)

• Noon The Critic's Chair

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

• 1:00 PM. Vintage Years

  ENESCU: Orchestral Suite No 1 in C - Bournemouth SO/Constantin Silvestri (rec 1963) (Nimbus NI 6124)

  LALO: Cello Concerto in D minor - Zara Nelsova (cello), London Phil/Adrian Boult (rec 1953) (Testament SBT 1361)

• 2:00 PM. The Sunday Feature

  Sir Colin Davis

  The British conductor passed away last month at the age of 85. Jon Tolansky recorded this programme with him in 2006 (RNZ)

• 3:00 PM. Opera on Sunday

  Metropolitan Opera Season

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

  (20) 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

  Wanderer..................... Mark Delavan

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

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

  Woodbird.................... Lisette Oropesa

  Erda............................. Meredith Arwady

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

  Metropolitan Opera Orch/Fabio Luisi (EBU)

• 8:20 PM. Young New Zealand

  NZSO National Youth Orch/Kenneth Young

  ARNOLD: Brass Quintet No 1 Op 73; BALLARD: frisson (world première); GRIEG: Nordic Melodies Op 63, Popular song; Cow Keeper's tune & Country dance; BRAHMS: Symphony No 2 in D Op 73 (recorded in Wellington Town Hall by RNZ)

• 9:35 PM. Beethoven Keyboard Variations

  Variations on Tändeln und Scherzen WoO76 - Ronald Brautigam (fpno) (BIS SACD 1673)

  Piano Trio No 11 in G Op 121a, Kakadu Variations - Nina Tichman (pno), Ida Bieler (vln), Maria Kliegel (cello) (Naxos 8.572343)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  BOWERMAN: Fantasy on Abide with me (Eventide) - Bronte Quartet (Champs Hill CHRCD 015)

  BENJAMIN: Romantic Fantasy - Sarah-Jane Bradley (vla), Royal Scottish National Orch/John Gibbons (Dutton CDLX 7279)

  BRITTEN: Simple Symphony Op 4 - Lucerne Festival Strings (Oehms OC 723)

  11:00 SCHUBERT: Piano Sonata No 9 in B D575 - Michael Endres (pno) (Capriccio 10 553)

  FARRENC: Nonet in Eb Op 38 - Philippe Bernold (fl), François Leleux (ob), Romain Guyot (cl), André Cazalet (horn), Gilbert Audin (bsn), Guillaume Sutre (vln), Miguel da Silva (vla), François Salque (cello), Vincent Pasquier (dbass) (Naïve V 5033)

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