Sunday 6 April 2014 Rātapu 6 Paenga-whāwhā 2014

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  Disc 1

  LILBURN: Overture, Aotearoa; Allegro for Strings; Concert Overture in D; Introduction and Allegro; Four Canzonas; Diversions for Strings; Festival Overture - NZSO/John Hopkins; Ithaca College Festival Orch/Grant Cooper (Kiwi CD SLD 99)

  1:10 approx - Disc 2

  LIU TIAN HUA: Idyllic Tune; TRAD: Weeping River of Sorrow; ZHOU WEI: Celebrating the harvest of grapes; LIU JIN WEN: Ode to Shanmenxia Gorge; LIU TIAN HUA: Birdsong echoing in a quiet valley; RENG TONG XIANG: A bunch of flowers; HUA YAN JUN: Moon reflected in the twin-spring lake; LIU WEN JIN: Ballad of North Henan province - Yu Hong Mei (erhu), Wulin (konghou), Lui Yin Xuan (yang qin), Chen Zhe (pno) (Channel of China CCS SA 80206)

  2:15 approx - Disc 3

  DELIUS: Seadrift; Appalachia - John Shirley-Quirk (bar), London SO, Royal Phil/Richard Hickox (London 425 156)

  3:20 approx - Disc 4

  Music by STANFORD, FAURÉ, SCHUMANN, DELIUS, HANDEL, BACH, GRIEG arr Grainger - Martin Jones (pno) (Nimbus NI 5255)

  4:35 approx - Disc 5

  Train music by LANNER, J STRAUSS I, HOYER, J STRAUSS II, MEYER, E STRAUSS, Josef STRAUSS, GRAHL & LUMBYE - Slovak State Phil/Mica Eichenholz (Marco Polo 8.223470)

• 6:00 AM. Sanctuary

  PALESTRINA: Lamentations for Holy Saturday, excerpt - Nordic Voices (Chandos CHAN 0763)

  TAVENER: Song for Athene - Nicola Benedetti (vln), London Phil/Andrew Litton (DG 476 6198)

  WALTON: A Litany; TAVERNER: Christe Jesu, pastor bone; RUTTER: Loving shepherd of thy sheep - Cambridge Singers/John Rutter (Collegium COL CD 113)

  N BOULANGER: Petit Canon; Improvisation; A piece on popular Flemish airs - Carolyn Shuster Fournier (organ of Saint-Antoine des Quinze-Vingts, Paris) (Ligia LIDI 0109206-09)

  KREEK: Sacred folk songs - Estonian Phil Chamber Choir/Daniel Reuss (Ondine ODE 1201)

  AUFSCHNAITER: Sonata St Jerome Op 4/4 - Ars Antiqua Austria/Gunar Letzbor (dir) (Arcana A 313)

  HAYDN: Mass No 7 in Bb, Missa brevis - Janice Watson (sop), Collegium Musicum 90/Richard Hickox, Ian Watson (org) (Chandos CHAN 0592)

• 7:30 AM. Hymns on Sunday

  A weekly selection of traditional and modern hymns (RNZ)

• 8:00 AM. Grace Notes

  HAHN arr Hazell: A Chloris - Albrecht Mayer (cor anglais), ASMF/Mathias Mönius (Decca 478 2564)

  CHOPIN: Etude in E Op 10/3, Tristesse - Wibi Soerjadi (pno) (Philips 462 224)

  GIBBS: Almayne, from Four Harmonisations for String Orchestra - Guildhall Strings/Robert Salter (vln/dir) (Hyperion CDA 67093)

  ZIPOLI arr Giovanini: Elevazione - Pierre Pierlot (ob), Bernard Fonteny (cello), Anne-Marie Beckensteiner (org), Jean-François Paillard CO/Jean-François Paillard (ABC Classics 465 086)

  DEBUSSY trans Nicholls: La fille aux cheveux de lin; Rêverie - Alison Nicholls (harp) (Alison Nicholls ARN 001)

  ELGAR: Sospiri Op 70 - NZSO CO/Donald Armstrong (dir) (RNZ)

  BRAHMS: Die Mainacht Op 43/2 - Anthony Leroy (cello), Sandra Moubarak (pno) (Zig Zag 070 202)

  SCHARWENKA: Andante religioso Op 46a - Poznan Phil/Lukasz Borowicz (Naxos 8.572637)

• 9:00 AM. Composer of the Week

  The life and music of ELLIOTT CARTER (1908-2012) presented by Chris Gendall (R Mon 7.00pm) (RNZ)

  Double Concerto for harpsichord & piano - Paul Jacobs (hpschd), Gilbert Kalish (pno), Contemporary Chamber Ensemble/Arthur Weisberg (Nonesuch 510893)

• 10:00 AM. West Cork Chamber Music Festival 2013

  Twenty programmes from Ireland's leading chamber music event, held every summer for a nine day period with over 100 international musicians

  (10) Danel Quartet

  MOZART: String Quartet No 20 in D K499, Hoffmeister; SAYGUN: String Quartet No 2 Op 35; WEINBERG: String Quartet No 5 Op 27 (recorded in St Brendan's Church, Bantry, Cork by Radio Ireland)

• 11:40 AM. The Works

  MILHAUD: Le Boeuf sur le toit - Ulster Orch/Yan Pascal Tortelier (Chandos CHAN 9023)

• Noon The Critic's Chair

  Erica Challis reviews recent releases (R Fri 7.00pm) (RNZ)

• 1:00 PM. Vintage Years

  Czech Mates

  DVOŘÁK: Carnival Overture - Czech Phil/Václav Talich (rec 1935) (Naxos 8.111331)

  MARTINU: Piano Concerto No 3 - Josef Pálenícek (pno), Czech Phil/Karel Ancerl (rec 1961) (Supraphon SU 3672)

  NOVAK: Eglogue; Au lac de Wallenstadt, from In the Tatra Mountains - Czech Phil/Karel Ancerl (rec 1950) (EMI 5 75091)

• 2:00 PM. The Sunday Feature

  Tchaikovsky and Brahms

  The rivalry between these composers was legendary, and it went beyond mere distaste for one another's musical direction. Thomas Goss explores the uneasy friendship and resulting musical ferment in the lives of the two giants (RNZ)

• 3:00 PM. Young New Zealand

  2013 Wallace National Piano Competition

  Six programmes

  (6) MOZART: Piano Sonata No 13 in Bb K333; KELLY: Landscape Prelude, Goodnight Kiwi; RACHMANINOV: Etude-Tableau in C Op 33/2 - Lucy Zeng (pno)

  BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata No 6 in F Op 10/2; DE CASTRO-ROBINSON: Landscape Prelude, this liquid drift of light; BALAKIREV: Islamey; LISZT: Piano Sonata in B minor - Jason Bae (pno) (recorded in the University of Auckland Music Theatre by RNZ)

• 4:00 PM. New Horizons

  Ten programmes

  (6) With William Dart (RNZ)

• 4:25 PM. A Mighty Fortress

  BUXTEHUDE: Chorale Prelude, Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott BuxWV184 - Ton Koopman (organ of Ludgerkirche, Norden) (Novalis 150 048)

  MENDELSSOHN: Symphony No 5 in D Op 107, Reformation - City of Birmingham SO/Edward Gardner (Chandos CHSA 5132)

• 6:00 PM. Opera on Sunday

  2012 BBC Music Magazine Opera Award

  HANDEL: Agrippina, an opera in three acts

  Agrippina....................... Alexandrina Pendatchanska

  Nerone.......................... Jennifer Rivera

  Poppea.......................... Sunhae Im

  Ottone........................... Bejun Mehta

  Claudio.......................... Marcos Fink

  Pallante......................... Neal Davies

  Narciso.......................... Dominique Visse

  Lesbo............................ Daniel Schmutzhard

  Berlin Akademie für Alte Musik/René Jacobs (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 2088.90)

• 9:45 PM. From the New Zealand Collection

  GOFFIN: Rhapsody in Brass - Woolston Brass/David Gallaher (Woolston Brass CDWB 3896340/01)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  CARPENTER: Adventures in a Perambulator - National SO of Ukraine/John McLaughlin Williams (Naxos 8.559065)

  RIES: Piano Concerto in D Op 120, Pastoral - Christopher Hinterhuber (pno), Bournemouth SO/Uwe Grodd (Naxos 8.572088)

  11:00 FIBICH: String Quartet No 2 in G Op 8 - Panocha Quartet (Supraphon SU 3470)

  SCHUMANN: Piano Trio No 3 in G minor Op 110 - Weilerstein Trio (Koch KICCD 7754)

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