Sunday 11 January 2015 Rātapu 11 Kohi-tātea 2015

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  Disc 1

  STRAUSS: Metamorphosen; Three Hymns, Hymne an die Liebe; Ruckkehr in die Heimat; Die Liebe; Death & Transfiguration - Felicity Lott (sop), Scottish National Orch/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHAN 8734)

  1:10 approx - Disc 2

  LECLAIR: Sonata in D minor Op 4/1; Sonata in Bb Op 4/2; Sonata in D minor Op 4/3; Sonata in F Op 4/4; Sonata in G minor Op 4/5; Sonata in A Op 4/6 - Purcell Quartet (Chandos CHAN 0536)

  2:25 approx - Disc 3

  OSCAR WILDE: The Happy Prince; The Rose & the Nightingale; The Selfish Giant - John Guilgud (narrator), English String Orch/Youra Guller (Nimbus NI 5036)

  3:20 approx - Disc 4

  WELLS: A New Zealand Suite; GRIFFITHS: Meditation on Maria zu leben; Trisagion, Nicaea; LILBURN: Prelude & Fugue in G minor; MEWS: Gigue de Pan; TS WEBSTER arr Wells: Waikato March; VIERNE: Naïades, Op 55/4; GRAINGER arr Wells: Blythe Bells; HOLLINS: Spring Song; Grand Choeur in C - John Wells (org) (Ribbonwood RCD 1005)

  4:35 approx - Disc 5

  ARNOLD: The Roots of Heaven; ALWYN: Suite of Scottish Dances; SARGENT: An Impression of a Windy Day; PARKER: The Glass Slipper; LANGLEY: The Coloured Counties; JACOB: The Barber of Seville Goes to the Devil, Overture; JOHNSTONE: Tarn Hows, a Cumbrian Rhapsody; LANGFORD: Two Worlds, Overture; BENNETT: Little Suite; LYON: Joie de Vivre, Overture - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland (ASV CD WHL 2113)

• 6:00 AM. Sanctuary

  DURUFLÉ: Four Motets on Gregorian themes Op 10 - Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge/Richard Marlow (Chandos CHAN 10357)

  BACH: Sheep may safely graze, from Cantata No 208 - Yo-Yo Ma (cello), Amsterdam Baroque Orch/Ton Koopman (Sony SK 60681)

  DURUFLÉ: Tota pulchra es, Maria - The Sixteen/Harry Christophers (UCJ 476 6295)

  HANDEL: Chandos Anthem No 11a, Let God arise - Emma Kirkby (sop), Iestyn Davies (countertenor), James Gilchrist (ten), Neal Davies (bass), Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge, Academy of Ancient Music/Stephen Layton (Hyperion CDA 67737)

  MEALOR: Locus iste - Voces8 (Decca 478 5703)

  DURUFLÉ: Meditation - Henry Fairs (organ of the Church of Notre-Dame d'Auteuil, Paris) (Naxos 8.557924)

  G JACKSON: Salve Regina 2 - Polyphony/Stephen Layton (Hyperion CDA 67708)

  DURUFLÉ: Messe Cum jubilo - Thomas Hampson (bar), baritones of the Orfeon Donostiarra, Toulouse Capitole Orch/Michel Plasson, Marie-Claire Alain (org) (EMI CDC 5 56878)

• 7:30 AM. Hymns on Sunday

  A weekly selection of traditional and modern hymns (RNZ)

• 8:00 AM. Grace Notes

  CHOPIN: Prelude in Db Op 28/15, Raindrop - Claudio Arrau (pno) (Philips 420 655)

  EDWARDS: Cadenza, Chorale, from Maninyas - Dene Olding (vln), Sydney SO/Stuart Challender (ABC 472 610)

  BORODIN: In the Steppes of Central Asia - Swiss Romande Orch/Ernest Ansermet (Decca 444 389)

  ORFF arr anon: In Trutina, from Carmina Burana - Julian Lloyd Webber (cello), John Lenehan (pno) (EMI 3 59488)

  PIAZZOLLA: Milonga del ángel - Astoria (Fuga Libera FUG 603)

  GRIEG: Solveig's song, from Peer Gynt Op 23 - Barbara Bonney (sop), Gothenburg SO/Neeme Järvi (Decca 468 818)

  YEDIDIA trans Yedidia: Lullabye - Ahn Trio (EMI 5 57357)

  SIBELIUS: The Swan of Tuonela, from Lemminkäinen Legends - Laurence Thorstenberg (cor anglais), Boston SO/Colin Davis (Philips 446 160)

• 9:00 AM. The Works

  SAINT-SAËNS: Piano Quartet in Bb Op 41 - Mozart Piano Quartet (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 943 1519)

  STRAVINSKY: Pulcinella Suite - CO of Europe/Alexander Janiczek (dir) (Linn CKD 330)

  MOZART: Violin Sonata No 28 in Eb K380 - Rachel Podger (vln), Gary Cooper (fpno) (Channel Classics CCS SA 23606)

  BRAHMS: Symphony No 3 in F Op 90 - Leipzig Gewandhaus Orch/Riccardo Chailly (Decca 478 5344)

• 11:00 AM. Spoleto Chamber Music Festival

  Thirteen programmes

  For 17 days and nights each spring, Spoleto Festival USA fills Charleston, South Carolina's historic theatres, churches, and outdoor spaces with performances by renowned artists as well as emerging performers

  (6) SCHUMANN: Piano Quartet in Eb Op 47 - Daniel Phillips (vln), Hsin-Yun Huang (vla), Christopher Costanza (cello), Pavel Kolesnikov (pno)

  BRUCH: String Octet in Bb Op posth - Scott St John, Daniel Phillips, Livia Sohn, Geoff Nuttall (vlns), Hsin-Yun Huang, Lesley Robertson (vlas), Christopher Costanza (cello), Anthony Manzo (dbass) (recorded at Dock Street Theatre, Charleston, South Carolina by ETV Radio and provided by WFMT)

• Noon The Critic's Choice

  The top choices from leading overseas music magazines

  BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata No 14 in C# minor, Moonlight - Alessio Bax (pno) (Signum SIGCD 397)

  BACH: Benedictus, Agnus Dei & Dona nobis pacem, from Mass in B minor BWV232 - Tim Mead (countertenor), Samuel Boden (ten), Arcangelo/Jonathan Cohen (Hyperion CDA 68051)

  GUNNING: Night Voyage - Royal Phil/Christopher Gunning (Discovery DMV112)

• 1:00 PM. Vintage Years

  Violinist Isaac Stern

  SIBELIUS: Violin Concerto in D minor Op 47 - with Royal Phil/Thomas Beecham (rec 1951) (Sony SMK 87799)

  FERGUSON: Violin Sonata No 2 Op 10 - with Myra Hess (pno) (rec 1960) (Testament SBT 1458)

  BEETHOVEN: Romance No 1 in G Op 40 - with Franz Liszt CO (rec 1996) (Sony SK 62693)

• 2:00 PM. The Sunday Feature

  Brilliant Brass

  With David Bremner

  Five programmes

  (2) Today's programme features stylish American brass quintet Empire Brass, euphonium ambassador David Childs, and a blast from the past with the antiphonal composers of 16th century Venice (RNZ)

• 3:00 PM. Youth in Concert

  Nine programmes

  (3) Kamēr... Youth Choir/Janis Liepins

  TRAD arr Sandström: Gara pupa (The Tall Bean); TRAD arr Miskinis: Rotasana (Adornment); TRAD arr Plakidis: Bumburjanis bumbureja (Janis the Charmer); TRAD arr Lens: Gaismena ausa (The Sun Rose); TRAD arr Skuke: Zvidzi, zvidzi (Night, Night); TRAD arr Uçarsu: Ar laivinu ielaidos (I Sailed with My Boat); TRAD arr Jackson: Neviens Putnis ta neputa (No Bird Sings as Nicely); TRAD arr Ostrzyga: Kaladu; TRAD arr Sperry: Divi sirmi kumelini (Two Grey Horses); TRAD arr Vähi: Aiz Daugavas vara darzs (Behind the Great Water); TRAD arr Glowicka: Tolku bolss (Autumn Work Song); TRAD arr Ødegaard: Malejina Dievu ludza (The Miller-Girl Beseeches God); TRAD arr Vir: Kalabadi galdinam (Feast Song); TRAD arr Sarasola: Veja mate (Mother of the Wind); TRAD arr Hochman: Aiz devini ezerini (Beyond Nine Lakes); TRAD arr Herzog: Gula meitina (The Girl Sleeps); TRAD arr Nartynov: Sesas dziesmas (Six Songs), Kaladu; Aizkryta sauleite (The Sun has Set); Spoza zvaigzne noteceja (The Mystery of a Child's Birth); Gara pupa (The Tall Bean); Es uzgaju sev prieksa (I Saw before Me); Ai Dievini, augstu saule (Oh, God, the Sun is High) (recorded in the University of Latvia, Riga by Latvian Radio)

• 4:35 PM. From the 18th-Century

  QUANTZ: Flute Concerto No 29 in G - Franks Theuns (transverse fl/dir), Les Buffardins (Accent ACC 24258)

  ROMAN: Keyboard Sonata No 3 in G - Anna Paradiso (hpschd) (BIS SACD 2095)

• 5:00 PM. The Shed, A Whole New World of Music

  Nine programmes from the award-winning former BBC broadcaster Mark Coles who presents his pick of the best new music releases and demos from around the planet (3) (MCM)

• 6:00 PM. Opera on Sunday

  Metropolitan Opera Season

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

  (2) WAGNER: The Mastersingers of Nuremberg, an opera in three acts

  The cobbler poet Hans Sachs, hearing a fresh but unformed poetic voice in the young knight Walther, helps him win the master-singer contest, and with it the hand of Eva

  Eva................................... Annette Dasch

  Magdalena........................ Karen Cargill

  Walther............................ Johan Botha

  David................................ Paul Appleby

  Hans Sachs....................... Michael Volle

  Pogner.............................. Hans-Peter König

  Sixtus Beckmesser........... Johannes Martin

  Fritz Kothner.................... Martin Gantner

  Kunz Vogelgesang........... Benjamin Bliss

  Konrad Nachtigall............ John Moore

  Hermann Ortel................. David Crawford

  Balthasar Zorn................. David Cangelosi

  Augustin Moser............... Noah Baetge

  Ulrich Eisslinger.............. Tony Stevenson

  Hans Foltz........................ Brian Kontes

  Hans Schwarz................... Ricardo Lugo

  Nightwatchman................ Matthew Rose

  Apprentice........................ Rosalie Sullivan

  Scream............................. Marie Te Hapuku

  Metropolitan Opera Chorus & Orch/James Levine (EBU)

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