Sunday 8 December 2013 Rātapu 8 Hakihea 2013

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  Disc 1

  ROSSINI orch Respighi: La Boutique Fantasque; BIZET: L'Arlesienne Suite No 2; Jeux d'Enfants - Toronto SO/Andrew Davis (CBS MDK 46508)

  1:15 approx - Disc 2

  KRAUS: Sinfonies in C minor; in Eb; in C; in D - Concerto Cologne (Capriccio 10 396)

  2:20 approx - Disc 3

  MONTSALVATGE: Five Negro Songs; OBRADORS: Classical Spanish Songs Vol 1; GURIDI: Six Castilian Songs; RODRIGO: Four Sephardic Songs; GRANADOS: Tonadillas - Deborah Wai Kapohe (sop), David Harper (pno) (Trust MMT 2038)

  3:35 approx - Disc 4

  TAGELL: Flamenco; CASSADÓ: Solo Suite; FALLA arr Pekkera: Spanish Dance; arr Piatigorsky: Ritual Fire Dance; RACHMANINOV: Oriental Dance Op 2/2; POPPER: Gnomentanz Op 50/2; Mazurka Op 11/3; Gavotte Op 23; Menuetto Op 65/2; Tarantella Op 33; TCHAIKOVSKY arr Rose: Valse sentimentale in F minor Op 51/6; PIAZZOLLA: Le Grand Tango - Maria Kliegel (cello), Bernd Glemser (pno) (Naxos 8.550785)

  4:45 approx - Disc 5

  DIEPENBROCK: The Birds, Overture; Concert Suite, Marsyas; Hymn for violin & orchestra; Electra, Symphonic Suite - Emmy Verhey (vln), Residentie Orch, The Hague/Hans Vonk (Chandos CHAN 8821)

• 6:00 AM. Sanctuary

  PRAETORIUS: Nun komm der Heiden Heiland - Bremen Baroque Consort/Manfred Cordes (CPO 777 327)

  ALDROVANDINI: Pastorale - Huw Williams (organ of St Paul's Cathedral, London) (Priory PRCD 778)

  LAURIDSEN: Ubi caritas et amor - Polyphony/Stephen Layton (Hyperion SACDA 67449)

  HOLST: Two Psalms - Christopher Mercer (ten), Holst Orch, Holst Singers/Hilary Davan Wetton, John Birch (org) (Hyperion CDA 66329)

  HANDEL: Comfort ye; Ev'ry valley, from Messiah - John Elwes (ten), Bach Collegium Japan/Masaaki Suzuki (dir) (BIS CD 891/2)

  VAUGHAN WILLIAMS orch Foster: Preludes on Welsh Hymn Tunes - Northern Sinfonia of England/Richard Hickox (EMI CDC 7 49745)

  GRETCHANINOV: Missa Sancti Spiritus - Tatiana Jeranje (contralto), Russian State Symphonic Cappella/Valéry Polyansky (Chandos CHAN 9397)

  F JACKSON: Three Carols for Advent Op 73 - Exon Singers/Matthew Owens, David Bednall (org) (Delphian DCD 34035)

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

  PRAETORIUS: Behold, a rose is springing; TRAD: Old Marian Song; TRAD: The angels of God; ORTIZ: Improvisation on Ricercata Segunda - Berit Opheim (vocalist), Gjermund Larsen (vln), Rolf Lislevand (lute), Bjørn Kjellemyr (dbass), Norwegian Soloists' Choir/Grete Pedersen (BIS SACD 2029)

  MENDELSSOHN: Vom Himmel hoch - Ute Selbig (sop), Egbert Junghanns (bar), Dresden Kreuzchor, Dresden Phil/Martin Flämig (Capriccio 10 216)

• 8:00 AM. Grace Notes

  ELGAR: Nimrod, from Enigma Variations - English SO/William Boughton (Nimbus NI 7067/8)

  GODARD arr Pierre: Berceuse, from Jocelyn - Patrick Gallois (fl), Fabrice Pierre (harp), London Festival Orch/Ross Pople (DG 445 822)

  MARTINI orch Berlioz: Plaisir d'amour - François Le Roux (bar), Montreal SO/Charles Dutoit (Decca 475 097)

  LISZT: Consolation No 3 in Db - Michael Houstoun (pno) (Trust MMT 2008)

  FAURÉ orch Rabaud: Berceuse, from Dolly Suite - Paris Orch/Serge Baudo (EMI 5 67523)

  GLAZUNOV: Grand Waltz, from Raymonda - Lydia Mordkovitch (vln), Marina Gusak-Grin (pno) (Chandos CHAN 8500)

  CILEA: Io son l'umile ancella, from Adriana Lecouvreur - Kiri Te Kanawa (sop), London SO/Myung-Whun Chung (EMI CDC 7 54062)

  BACH: Agnus Dei, from Mass in B minor - Sergei Nakariakov (flugelhorn), Saint Paul CO/Hugh Wolff (Teldec 0630 10788)

  PÄRT: Fratres - NZSO CO/Donald Armstrong (dir) (RNZ)

• 9:00 AM. Composer of the Week

  A look at the life and music of MORTON GOULD (1913-1996), marking the 100th anniversary of the composer's birth on Tuesday 10 December. Presented by Peter Hoar (R Mon 7.00pm) (RNZ)

  Spirituals for Strings, Gospel train/Old time religion; Were you there?/Steal away; All God's children got wings; Little David play on your harp; Calvary/He never said a mumblin' word; Ezekiel saw de wheel - I Musici de Montréal/Yuli Turovsky (Chandos CHAN 9848)

• 10:00 AM. Music@Menlo

  Maps and Legends

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

  (8) Juho Pohjonen (pno)

  MOZART: Piano Sonata No 11 in A K331; GRIEG: Ballade in G minor Op 24; HANDEL: Keyboard Suite No 1 in Bb HWV434; BRAHMS: Variations & Fugue on a theme by Handel Op 24; GRIEG: To Spring, from Lyric Pieces Book 3; F COUPERIN: L'exquise, from 4th Book of Harpsichord Pieces (Music@Menlo 2010/08)

• 11:25 AM. The Works

  RAVEL: Mother Goose Suite - St Petersburg Phil/Yuri Temirkanov (Signum SIGCD 330)

  FERLENDIS: Oboe Concerto No 1 in F - Diego Dini Ciacci (ob/dir), Haydn Orch (CPO 777 368)

• Noon The Critic's Chair

  A Settling the Score Live special

  Two programmes

  (2) David Morriss discusses his favourite commercial recordings of the top orchestral works in this year's listeners' poll, taking us to number one. To hear the whole poll tune in on Wednesday 1 January 2014 (R Fri 7.00pm) (RNZ)

• 1:00 PM. Vintage Years

  Conductor Carl Schuricht

  GOETZ: Violin Concerto in G Op 22 - Roman Schimmer (vln), Stuttgart Radio SO (rec 1953) (Hänssler CD 93.149)

  REGER: Variations & Fugue on a theme of Hiller Op 100 - London SO (rec 1964) (BBC Legends BBCL 4213)

• 2:00 PM. The Sunday Feature

  High-class Middlebrow

  Three British Light Music Conductors

  (1) John Wilson

  Brian Kay talks to conductor, composer, arranger John Wilson, whose musical genius is behind many successful projects in light music and film music. His annual concert with his own orchestra has become a huge hit at the BBC Proms and sells out quicker than any other (RNZ)

• 3:00 PM. Opera on Sunday

  HANDEL: Xerxes, an opera in three acts

  Xerxes.............................. Anna Stéphany

  Arsamene.......................... David Daniels

  Amastre............................ Hilary Summers

  Ariodate........................... Brindley Sherratt

  Romilda............................ Rosemary Joshua

  Atalanta............................ Joélle Harvey

  Elviro................................ Andreas Wolf

  Early Opera Company/Christian Curnyn (Chandos CHAN 0797)

• 6:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ performers and composers

  MEWS: Prelude & Fugue - Martin Setchell (organ of Christchurch Town Hall) (Atoll ACD 605)

  MAYUZUMI: Symphonic Mood - New Zealand SO/Takuo Yuasa (Naxos 8.557693)

  MENDELSSOHN: String Quartet No 6 in F minor Op 80 - New Zealand String Quartet (Naxos 8.570001)

• 7:00 PM. New Horizons

  Ten programmes

  (9) With William Dart (RNZ)

• 8:00 PM. Young New Zealand

  The Big Sing 2013

  Nine programmes

  (8) Featuring: Bel Canto (Burnside High School), Kentoris (St Kentigern College), S.O.S (Rangitoto College), Wellington College Chorale (Wellington College), Choralation (Westlake Girls' and Boys' High Schools)

  WARREN arr Dagsvik: Lullaby of Broadway; MACINTYRE: Ave Maria; TRAD arr Tippett: Steal away; TRAD arr Marshall: Minoi Minoi; LAURIDSEN: Sure on this shining night; RAUTAVAARA: Malagueña, from Suite de Lorca; DEBUSSY arr Raines: Romance; OSWIN: Sanctus; DELUGG/ STEIN arr Sharon: Orange coloured sky; WHITACRE: The seal lullaby: DAVISON: Ritmo; BRITTEN: A Hymn to the Virgin: RAUTAVAARA: Suscepit Israel, from Magnificat; TRAD arr Leu'u: Maunga e ole atuolo (recorded in the Dunedin Town Hall by RNZ)

• 8:50 PM. Recent Russian Releases

  TCHAIKOVSKY: Piano Concerto No 2 in G Op 44 - Boris Berezovsky (pno), Jakub Haufa (vln), Marcel Markowski (cello), Sinfonia Varsovia/Alexander Vedernikov (Mirare MIR 200)

  RACHMANINOV: Isle of the Dead Op 29 - Detroit SO/Leonard Slatkin (Naxos 8.573234)

  TCHAIKOVSKY arr Kubatsky: Valse sentimentale in F minor Op 51/6 - Henri Demarquette (cello), Boris Berezovsky (pno) (Mirare MIR 200)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  BOCCHERINI: Guitar Quintet in D G448, Fandango - Pepe Romero (gtr), Tristan Fry (perc), Academy Chamber Ensemble (Philips 420 385)

  SCHUMANN: Violin Concerto in A minor Op 129 - Ulf Wallin (vln), Robert Schumann Phil/Frank Beermann (BIS SACD 1775)

  C STAMITZ: Symphony in F Op 24/3 - London Mozart Players/Matthias Bamert (Chandos CHAN 9358)

  11:00 BEETHOVEN: Violin Sonata No 10 in G Op 96 - Martin Riseley (vln), Diedre Irons (pno) (Rattle RAT D032)

  HAYDN: String Quartet in C Op 20/2 - Lindsay String Quartet (ASV CD DCA 622)

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