Sunday 30 March 2014 Rātapu 30 Poutū-te-rangi 2014

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  Disc 1

  WALTON: Portsmouth Point Overture; Capriccio Burlesco; The First Shoot; Scapino, A Comedy Overture; Granada, Prelude for orchestra; Prologo e Fantasia; Johannesburg Festival Overture; Music for Children; Music for Children, Galop finale - London Phil/Bryden Thomson (Chandos CHAN 8968)

  1:10 approx - Disc 2

  Miniatures by CHOPIN, GOTTSCHALK, LISZT, BACH, MENDELSSOHN, DEBUSSY, SCHUBERT, ALBÉNIZ, BEETHOVEN, GRIEG, MOZART - Various artists (Decca 436 854)

  2:25 approx - Disc 3

  TCHAIKOVSKY: Songs - Elizabeth Söderström (sop), Vladimir Ashkenazy (pno) (Decca 436 204)

  3:40 approx - Disc 4

  BEETHOVEN: Symphonies, No 1 in C Op 21; No 2 in D Op 36 - Philharmonia/Kurt Sanderling (EMI CDM 7 69382)

  4:45 approx - Disc 5

  TUBIN: Double bass Concerto; Valse Triste; Ballade for violin & orchestra; Violin Concerto No 2; Estonian Dances Suite - Hakan Ehrén (dbass), Gustavo Garcia (vln), Gothenburg SO/Neeme Järvi (BIS CD 337)

• 6:00 AM. Sanctuary

  GIBBONS: O clap your hands - Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge/Richard Marlow (Conifer 75605 51231)

  GIBBONS: Pavan; Galliard - Concordia (Metronome Met CD 1039)

  ANON arr Martynov: Psalm 140, Let my prayer rise; Now the Powers of Heaven; Taste and see - Valentin Kulebiakin (ten), Russian Patriarchate Choir/Anatoly Grindenko (Opus 111 OPS 30-240)

  SAINT-SAËNS: Prière - Emmanuelle Bertrand (cello), Pascal Amoyel (pno) (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1962)

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

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

  BACH: Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied BWV225 - Trinity Baroque/Julian Podger (Raum Klang RK 2601)

  PARRY: I was glad - Musica Sacra, New Zealand Graduate Choir, Viva Voce/John Rosser, Indra Hughes (org) (Atoll ACD 117)

• 7:30 AM. Hymns on Sunday

  A weekly selection of traditional and modern hymns (RNZ)

• 8:00 AM. Grace Notes

  MOERAN: Whythorne's Shadow, from Two Pieces for Small Orchestra - English CO/Jeffrey Tate (EMI CDC 7 47945)

  VIOTTI: Second movement, Larghetto, from Harp Sonata in Bb - Nicanor Zabaleta (harp) (DG 415 893)

  STRAUSS: Ruhe, meine Seele Op 27/1 - Kiri Te Kanawa (sop), London SO/Andrew Davis (CBS MK 76794)

  HANDEL trans Kempff: Minuet in G minor - Idil Biret (pno) (Marco Polo 8.223452)

  FAURÉ arr Albert: Fantaisie Op 79 - Edward Beckett (fl), London Festival Orch/Ross Pople (Black Box BBM 1049)

  K JENKINS: Torches, from The Armed Man, A Mass for Peace, excerpt - National Youth Choir of Great Britain, London Phil/Karl Jenkins (Virgin 8 11015)

  SATIE arr Williams: Gnossiennes Nos 1-2 - John Williams (gtr) (Sony SK 60586)

  TCHAIKOVSKY arr J Harnoy: Sérénade mélancolique in B minor - Ofra Harnoy (cello), London Phil/Charles Mackerras (RCA RD 60758)

• 9:00 AM. Composer of the Week

  William Dart presents a programme on the life and music of CÉSAR FRANCK (1822-1890) (R Mon 7.00pm) (RNZ)

  Prologue; Seventh Beatitude, Blessed are The Peacemakers, for they shall be called Sons of God, from Les Béatitudes - Keith Lewis (ten), Gilles Cachemaille (bar), John Cheek (bass), Quintet of soloists, Stuttgart Gächinger Kantorei, Stuttgart Radio SO/Helmuth Rilling (Hänssler CD 98.435)

• 10:00 AM. Brilliant Brass

  Whether it's jazz, orchestral, solo or band music, brass-playing is in pretty good heart, both in NZ and around the world. Starry soloists, smooth ensembles and inspired composers are leading the way for thousands of people in the brass community

  David Bremner hosts a second series looking at the brilliant world of brass

  (5) In today's programme David features versatile American trumpeter Allen Vizzutti, celebrates the outstanding Chicago Symphony brass section, and talks to New Zealand composers John and Anthony Ritchie about writing for brass (RNZ)

• 11:00 AM. The Works

  SAINT-SAËNS: Piano Concerto No 3 in Eb Op 29 - Stephen Hough (pno), CBSO/Sakari Oramo (Hyperion CDA 67331/2)

  BRAHMS: Serenade No 2 in A Op 16 - Czech Phil/Jirí Belohlávek (Supraphon SU 3868)

• Noon The Critic's Chair

  Roger Wilson reviews recent releases focusing on the finalists in the 2014 BBC Music Magazine Awards (R Fri 7.00pm) (RNZ)

• 1:00 PM. Vintage Years

  HUMMEL: Piano Septet No 1 in D minor Op 74 - Sviatoslav Knushevitsky (cello), Vladimir Shraibman (pno), Grigory Madatov (fl), Nikolay Meshkov (ob), Yakov Shapiro (horn), Mikhail Terian (vla), Vladimir Khomenko (dbass) (rec 1950) (Brilliant Classics 8924)

  ARNOLD: English Dances - London Phil/Adrian Boult (rec 1954) (London 425 661)

• 2:00 PM. The Sunday Feature

  Napier Cathedral Organ 2013

  This important instrument was restored and enlarged to become New Zealand's most advanced cathedral organ. Kerry Stevens followed the restoration which honours the organ builders who contributed to the instrument over many decades (RNZ)

• 3:00 PM. Young New Zealand

  2013 Wallace National Piano Competition

  Six programmes

  (5) HAYDN: Keyboard Sonata No 60 in C HobXVI/50; KAPUSTIN: Concert Etude Op 40/8; BACH: Prelude & Fugue No 17 in Ab BWV862, from The Well-Tempered Clavier Book 1; HOLMES: Nocturne; LISZT: Transcendental Study No 12, Chasse-neige - Kent Isomura (pno)

  LILBURN: Piano Sonatina No 1 - Andrew Adkins (pno)

  MENDELSSOHN: Variations sérieuses in D minor Op 54; YOUNG: Elusive Dream; CHOPIN: Andante Spianato & Grande Polonaise in Eb Op 22 - Jane Nayoung Koo (pno) (recorded in the University of Auckland Music Theatre by RNZ)

• 4:25 PM. Handel Variants

  BEETHOVEN: Variations on See the conqu'ring hero comes from Handel's Judas Maccabeus - Steven Isserlis (cello), Robert Levin (fpno) (Hyperion CDA 67981)

  LANDMANN: Variations on a Theme of Handel Op 29 - Jane Parker-Smith (organ of St Gudula's Church, Rhede, Germany) (Avie AV 2165)

• 5:00 PM. New Horizons

  Ten programmes

  (5) With William Dart (RNZ)

• 6:00 PM. Opera on Sunday

  Metropolitan Opera Season

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

  (13) BORODIN: Prince Igor, an opera in four acts

  Borordin's only opera is based on an anonymous medieval epic, The Tale of Igor's Campaign, which relates a historical incident: a raid by Prince Igor Svyatoslavich against the nomadic Central Asian Polovtsian tribes in the late 12th century, an era remembered as a time of formative national consciousness and the emergence of the modern Russian culture

  Prince Igor........................ Ildar Abdrazakov

  Yaroslavna....................... Oksana Dyka

  Vladimir Igorevich.......... Sergey Semishkur

  Vladimir Yaroslavich...... Mikhail Petrenko

  Konchak........................... Stefan Kocán

  Konchankovna................. Anita Rachvelishvili

  Ovlur................................ Mikhail Vekua

  Skula................................ Vladimir Ognovenko

  Yeroshka.......................... Andrey Popov

  Yaroslavna's nurse........... Barbara Dever

  Polovtsian maiden........... Kiri Deonarine

  Metropolitan Opera Chorus & Orch/Gianandrea Noseda (EBU)

• 10:35 PM. Day's End

  JC BACH: Violin Concerto in C - Anna McDonald (vln), Hanover Band/Anthony Halstead (dir) (CPO 999 627)

  11:00 SCHUBERT arr Boehm: Gute Nacht D911/1; Der Lindenbaum D911/5; Das Fischermädchen D957/10; Ständchen D957/4; Am Meer D957/12; Die Taubenpost D957/14 - Uwe Grodd (fl), Matteo Napoli (pno) (Naxos 8.570754)

  ONSLOW: String Quartet No 29 in D minor Op 55 - Quatuor Diotima (Naïve V 5200)

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