Sunday 1 December 2013 Rātapu 1 Hakihea 2013

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  Disc 1

  LAMBERT: Horoscope; WALTON: Façade; BLISS: Checkmate - English Northern Philharmonia/David Lloyd-Jones (Hyperion CDA 66436)

  1:15 approx - Disc 2

  CPE BACH: Concertos for flute & orchestra, in D minor WQ22; in A minor WQ166; in A for WQ168 - Eckart Haupt (fl), CPE Bach CO/Hartmut Haenchen (Capriccio 10 104)

  2:25 approx - Disc 3

  MENDELSSOHN: Verleih' uns Frieden; Kyrie eleison; Ehre sei Gott in der Hohe; Ave Maria Op 23/2; Mitten wir im Leben sind Op 23/3; Heilig, heilig ist Gott, der Herr Zebaoth; Six Anthems Op 79; Three Psalms Op 78, Warum toben die Heiden; Richte mich, Gott, und fuhre meine Sache; Mein Gott, warum hast du mich verlassen?; Hor mein Bitten, Herr, neige dich zu mir - Anne Dawson (sop), Rogers Covey-Crump (ten), John Scott (org), Corydon Singers, English CO/Matthew Best (Hyperion CDA 66359)

  3:40 approx - Disc 4

  DEBUSSY: Sonata for cello & piano; DOHNÁNYI: Sonata in Bb minor for cello & piano Op 8; BRIDGE: Two Short Pieces; Sonata in D for cello & piano - Bernard Gregor-Smith (cello), Yolande Wrigley (pno) (ASV CD DCA 796)

  4:45 approx - Disc 5

  Overtures, ROSSINI: William Tell; BIZET: Carmen; REZNICEK: Donna Diana; WEBER: Freischütz; ROSSINI: The Thieving Magpie; VERDI: The Force of Destiny; ROSSINI: The Silken Ladder; MOZART: The Magic Flute; NICOLAI: The Merry Wives of Windsor - Various orchestras & conductors (DG 423 781)

• 6:00 AM. Sanctuary

  TRAD arr Bond: Prepare a way for the Lord; G HAHN: The earth is waiting; OLSSON: Advent - Sofia Vocal Ensemble/Bengt Ollén, Henrik Arlestrand (org) (Footprint Records FRCD 060)

  GLENNIE: Light in Darkness - Evelyn Glennie (marimba) (RCA RD 60557)

  CHILCOTT: Advent Antiphons - BBC Singers/Bob Chilcott (Signum SIGCD 100)

  MENDELSSOHN: Jesu meine Freude - Stuttgart Chamber Choir, Bremen German Chamber Phil/Frieder Bernius (Carus 83.216)

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

  SPOHR: Three Psalms Op 85 - Ricarda Vollprecht (sop), Doris Zucker (contralto), Georg Taube (tenor), Konrad Urban (bass), Berlin Radio Choir/Dietrich Knothe (CPO 999 149)

  BACH: Cantata No 36, written for the 1st Sunday in Advent, Soar joyfully aloft - Hana Blaziková (sop), Robin Blaze (countertenor), Satoshi Mizukoshi (ten), Peter Kooij (bass), Bach Collegium Japan/Masaaki Suzuki (BIS CD 1861)

  TRAD arr Vaughan Williams: The truth from above; POSTON: Jesus Christ the apple tree; TRAD: Of the Father's heart begotten - The Sixteen/Harry Christophers, Robert Quinney (org) (Coro COR 16085)

• 8:00 AM. Grace Notes

  MENDELSSOHN: Nocturne, from A Midsummer Night's Dream - London Phil/Andrew Litton (EMI CD EMX 9518)

  HANDEL: Tune your harps, from Esther - Mark Padmore (ten), Katharina Spreckelsen (ob), English Concert/Andrew Manze (dir) (Harmonia Mundi HMU 90 7422)

  BRAHMS: Intermezzo in Bb minor Op 117/2 - Radu Lupu (pno) (Philips 456 895)

  SAINT-SAËNS: Romance in Db Op 37 - Anna Noakes (fl), Gillian Tingay (harp) (ASV White Line CD WHL 2101)

  VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Fantasia on Greensleeves - ASMF/Neville Marriner (Philips 426 051)

  BRAHMS: Chorale Prelude, Schmücke dich, o liebe Seele - Douglas Mews (organ of Wellington Town Hall) (Priory PRCD 1030)

  ELGAR: There is sweet music - Viva Voce/John Rosser (Viva Voce ACD 901)

  FARR: Waipoua - Mary Scott (cl), New Zealand SO/Kenneth Young (Trust MMT 2044)

  RAMEAU: Entrée de Polymnie, from Les Boréades - Les Musiciens du Louvre/Marc Minkowski (Archiv 477 5578)

• 9:00 AM. Composer of the Week

  Elizabeth Kerr looks at the life and music of LUCIANO BERIO (1925-2003), marking the 10th anniversary of the composer's death (R Mon 7.00pm) (RNZ)

  Circles - Cathy Berberian (voice), Francis Pierre (harp), Jean Pierre Drouet, Jean Claude Casadesus (perc) (Wergo WER 6021)

• 10:00 AM. Music@Menlo

  Maps and Legends

  Eight programmes from the 2010 three-week California summer music festival

  (7) DVORÁK: String Quartet No 12 in F Op 96, American - Jupiter String Quartet

  TRAD arr Burleigh: By an' by; Deep river; Wade in de water; BARBER: Four Songs Op 13, A nun takes the veil; The secrets of the old; Sure on this shining night; Nocturne - Sasha Cooke (sop), Wu Han (pno)

  DVORÁK: String Quintet in Eb Op 97 - Erin Keefe, Arnaud Sussmann (vlns), Beth Guterman, Liz Freivogel (vlas), Laurence Lesser (cello) (Music@Menlo 2010/07)

• 11:25 AM. The Works

  SCHUMANN: Symphony No 3 in Eb Op 97, Rhenish - Lausanne CO/Christian Zacharias (MDG 940 1772)

• Noon The Critic's Chair

  A Settling the Score Live special

  Two programmes

  (1) Robert Johnson discusses his favourite commercial recordings of the top orchestral works in this year's listeners' poll, starting the countdown from number ten. To hear the whole poll, tune in on Wednesday 1 January 2014 (R Fri 7.00pm) (RNZ)

• 1:00 PM. Vintage Years

  John Barbirolli and the Hallé Orchestra

  RAWSTHORNE: Street Corner, Overture; BAX arr Barbirolli: Quintet for oboe & strings - with Evelyn Rothwell (ob) (rec 1968) (BBC Legends BBCL 4100)

  HEMING arr Collins: Threnody for a Soldier Killed in Action (rec 1945) (EMI CDM 5 66053)

  CHAUSSON: Poème de l'amour et de la mer Op 19 - with Kathleen Ferrier (contralto) (rec 1951) (Somm SOMMCD 075)

• 2:00 PM. The Sunday Feature

  Tobias Ringborg

  Tobias Ringborg's brilliant conducting - full of arresting voices, tempo choices and dynamic inflexions that make you feel the ink could still be drying on Mozart's score (Andrew Clark, Financial Times)

  The Swedish conductor, on his visit to this country to conduct NZ Opera's production of Madame Butterfly, talked with Christine Argyle (RNZ)

• 3:00 PM. Opera on Sunday

  VERDI: Rigoletto, an opera in three acts

  Rigoletto........................... Warwick Fyfe

  Gilda................................. Emma Pearson

  Duke of Mantua............... Rafael Rojas

  Sparafucile........................ Ashraf Sewailam

  Maddalena........................ Kristin Darragh

  Monterone........................ Rodney Macann

  Marullo............................. Matthew Landreth

  Borsa................................ Derek Hill

  Ceprano............................ James Clayton

  Countess Ceprano............ Emma Fraser

  Giovanna.......................... Wendy Doyle

  Usher................................ Moses Mackay

  Page.................................. Morag McDowell

  Chapman Tripp Opera Chorus, Auckland Philharmonia/Wyn Davies (recorded in the Aotea Centre, Auckland by RNZ)

• 5:30 PM. Playing the Joker

  COATES: Jester at the Wedding - East of England Orch/Malcolm Nabarro (ASV CD WHL 2075)

• 6:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ performers and composers

  FARR: Tabuh Pacific - Gareth Farr (gamelan gongs), New Zealand SO/Kenneth Young (Trust MMT 2021)

  BEETHOVEN: Piano Trio No 6 in Eb Op 70/2 - Canterbury Trio (RNZ)

• 7:00 PM. New Horizons

  Ten programmes

  (8) With William Dart (RNZ)

• 8:00 PM. Young New Zealand

  The Big Sing 2013

  Nine programmes

  (7) Featuring: Paradisum (Epsom Girls' Grammar School), Resolutions (Rangi Ruru Girls' School), Fortissimo (Dilworth School), Saints Alive (St Cuthbert's College), Senior Chorale (Burnside High School)

  DURUFLÉ: Tota pulchra es, Maria, from Four Motets; HEAD: The ships of Arcady; ARLEN arr Shaw: It's only a paper moon; UGALDE: Miserere; FARMER arr Cox: Fair Phyllis; HATFIELD: Ripple effect; MENDELSSOHN: Wasserfahrt; CARMICHAEL/GORRELL arr Shaw: Georgia on my mind; PAPAROA arr Paparoa/Clark: E te Atua; HAMILTON: This old hammer; CAPLET: Sanctus, from Mass for three voices; BRITTEN: This little babe, from A Ceremony of Carols; AGUIAR: Salmo 150; WHITACRE: A boy and a girl; TRAD arr Sund; The drunken sailor (recorded in the Dunedin Town Hall by RNZ)

• 9:00 PM. Three Suites

  BACH: Lute Suite in G minor BWV995 - Joachim Held (lute) (Hänssler CD 98.649)

  MUSTONEN: Petite Suite - Martti Rousi (cello), Tapiola Sinfonietta/Olli Mustonen (Ondine ODE 974)

  FARQUHAR: Ring Round the Moon - Augmented Alex Lindsay String Orch/Alex Lindsay (rec 1953) (Kiwi CD SLD 107)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  MOERAN: Theme & Variations - Duncan Honeybourne (pno) (EM Records EMRCD 012/013)

  MARX: Idyll, Concertino on the pastoral fourth from Nature Trilogy - Vienna Radio SO/Johannes Wildner (CPO 777 320)

  GLIÈRE: Horn Concerto in Bb - Sergei Nakariakov (flugelhorn), Jena Phil/Andrey Boreyko (Teldec 8573 85558)

  11:00 PÄRT: Spiegel im Spiegel - Dietmar Schwalke (cello), Alexander Malter (pno) (ECM 1591)

  KIENZL: String Quartet No 3 in Eb - Thomas Christian Ensemble (CPO 999 805)

  SALZEDO: Variations on a theme in the old style - Yolanda Kondonassis (harp) (Telarc CD 80581)

  WHITACRE: Sleep - Eric Whitacre Singers, Laudibus/Eric Whitacre (Decca 274 3209)

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