Sunday 15 March 2015 Rātapu 15 Poutū-te-rangi 2015

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  Disc 1

  MOZART: Symphonies, No 34 in C K338; No 35 in D K385; No 39 in Eb K543 - London Mozart Players/Jane Glover (ASV CD DCA 615)

  1:15 approx - Disc 2

  SUK: Suite Op 21; Spring Op 22a; Summer Moods Op 22b; About Mother Op 28 - Pavel Stepán (pno) (Supraphon SU 3820)

  2:20 approx - Disc 3

  BEETHOVEN: Adelaïde; BRAHMS: Wie Melodien; Alte Liebe; Alte die Nachtigall; Feldeinsamkeit; Immer leiser wird mein Schlummer; STRAUSS: Befreit; Nichts; Die Nacht; Heimliche Aufforderung; TCHAIKOVSKY: Blagoslavlyayu vas, lesa; Sleza drazht f tvajom rivnivom vzore; Net, tol'ka tot, kto znal; Serenada Don Zhuana; MORAWETZ: The Chimney-Sweeper; Mad Song; Grenadier; DUPARC: Phidylé; L'invitation au voyage; Le manoir de Rosamonde; Chanson triste - Mark Pedrotti (bar), Stephen Ralls (pno) (CBC MVCD 1051)

  3:30 approx - Disc 4

  TRAD arr Nunns/Bailey: In one breath; Wooden Man; Late summer; Not reconciled; The other door; Returning; Play; Silence; The bells; Twilight; Reflections II - Richard Nunns (traditional Māori instruments), Judy Bailey (pno) (Rattle RAT DO11)

  4:45 approx - Disc 5

  HANDEL: Violin Sonatas, in D Op 1/13; in F Op 1/12; in D minor; in A Op 1/3; in G minor Op 1/6; in A Op 1/10; in E Op 1/12; in G; in A minor; in C minor - Andrew Manze (vln), Richard Egarr (hpschd) (Harmonia Mundi HMX 290 7259)

• 6:00 AM. Sanctuary

  ANON arr Ungar & Mason: Solstice hymn - Jay Ungar, Mary Lea (vlns), Abby Newton (cello), Molly Mason (dbass) (EMI 3 82225)

  ANON: I was glad; The Nicene Creed; Clap your hands - Monks from the Keur Moussa Abbey (Sounds True STA A337)

  HOLST: Choral Hymns from the Rig Veda, Third Group - BBC Singers/Justin Doyle, Sioned Williams (harp) (BBC Music BBC MM 252)

  SILVESTROV: Alleluia - Kiev Chamber Choir/Mykola Hobdych (ECM 2117 (476 3316))

  TSABROPOULOS: Three pieces after Byzantine hymns - Anja Lechner (cello), Vassilis Tsabropoulos (pno) (ECM 1888 (981 9613))

  TRAD: Hanuman Chaleesa - Krishna Das (vocalist) (Triloka 410 505)

  KOEHNE: A Closed World of Fine Feelings & Grand Design - Aleksandr Tsiboulski (gtr) (Naxos 8.570949)

  BIEBL: Ave Maria - Stanford Chamber Chorale/Stephen M Sano (Pictoria PR 11192)

  BRAHMS: Geistliches Lied Op 30 - New Zealand Secondary Students' Choir 2011-12/Andrew Withington, Grant Bartley (org) (NZSSC 2012)

• 7:30 AM. Hymns on Sunday

  A weekly selection of traditional and modern hymns (RNZ)

• 8:00 AM. Grace Notes

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

  WAGNER: Euch lüften, die mein Klagen, from Lohengrin - Régine Crespin (sop), French National Radio Orch/Georges Prêtre (EMI 5 58031)

  PONCE arr Heifetz: Estrellita - Itzhak Perlman (vln), Samuel Sanders (pno) (EMI CDC 7 49604)

  ALBINONI: Second movement, Larghetto, from Oboe Concerto in D minor Op 9/2 - Pierre Pierlot (ob), I Solisti Veneti/Claudio Scimone (Erato 3984 22241)

  CHOPIN: Waltz in C# minor Op 64/2 - Claudio Arrau (pno) (Philips 420 655)

  HONEGGER: Pastorale d'été - Zurich Tonhalle Orch/David Zinman (Decca 455 352)

  COPLAND: Vocalise for flute & piano - Paul Lustig Dunkel (fl), Michael Boriskin (pno) (Arabesque Z 6794)

  DVORÁK: Silent Woods - Han-Na Chang (cello), Philharmonia/Leonard Slatkin (EMI 5 57052)

• 9:00 AM. Composer of the Week

  An overview of the life and music of MAURICE RAVEL (1875- 1937) marking the 140th anniversary of his birth on 7 March. Presented by Amber Read (R Mon 7pm) (RNZ)

  Piano Concerto for the left hand - Michael Houstoun (pno), Auckland Philharmonia/Miguel Harth-Bedoya (Atoll ACD 102)

• 10:00 AM. Music@Menlo

  Resonance

  Music at Menlo is a California summer music festival. The 2012 season, Resonance, marked the festival's tenth anniversary.

  Six programmes

  (2) SIBELIUS: String Quartet in D minor Op 56, Intimate Voices - Escher String Quartet: Adam Barnett-Hart, Wu Jie (vlns), Pierre Laponte (vla), Dane Johansen (cello)

  BARBER: Dover Beach Op 3 - Kelly Markgraf (bar), Escher String Quartet: Adam Barnett-Hart, Wu Jie (vlns), Pierre Laponte (vla), Dane Johansen (cello)

  CHEN: Romance of Hsiao and Ch'in - Jorja Fleezanis (vln), Jeffrey Kahane (pno) (American Public Media)

  DEBUSSY: Six Epigraphes antiques - Jeffrey Kahane, Wu Han (pno duet)

  ALBENIZ: Evocación, from Iberia Book 1 - Jeffrey Kahane (pno)

  MAHLER: Fourth movement, Das himmlische Leben, from Symphony No 4 in G - Susanne Mentzer (mezzo), Carol Wincenc (fl/picc), James Austin Smith (ob/cor anglais), Jose Franchi-Ballester (cl), Jorja Fleezanis, Wu Jie (vlns), Pierre Laponte (vla), Nicholas Canellakis (cello), Scott Pingel (dbass), Jeffrey Kahane (pno), Hyeyeon Park (harmonium), Florian Conzetti, Christopher Froh (perc) (recorded at the Center for Performing Arts at Menlo-Atherton by American Public Media)

• 11:15 AM. The Works

  RODRIGO: Tonadilla - Arada Guitar Duo (Landor LAN 284)

  MOZART: Clarinet Quintet in A K581 - Jean Claude Veilhan (basset cl), Stadler Quartet (K617 K617 165)

• Noon The Critic's Choice

  The top choices from leading overseas music magazines

  ENESCU orch Bentoiu: Isis - North German Radio Choir, German Radio Phil/Peter Ruzicka (CPO 777 823)

  DAMASE: Symphonie - BBC Concert Orch/Martin Yates (Dutton Epoch CDLX 7309)

• 1:00 PM. Vintage Years

  VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: On Wenlock Edge - Peter Pears (ten), Benjamin Britten (pno) (rec 1945) Zorian Quartet (Pearl GEMS 0062)

  Symphony No 5 in D - London Phil/Ralph Vaughan Williams (rec 1952) (Somm SOMMCD 071)

• 2:00 PM. The Sunday Feature

  Richard Farrell - New Zealand pianist

  The recorded legacy of Richard Farrell, who died in a car crash in 1958 at the age of 31, shows a pianist of outstanding technique and insight. Peter Mechen presents four programmes reviewing the surviving recordings and talking to those who remember Farrell's playing

  (1) Life and times (RNZ)

• 3:00 PM. Young New Zealand

  NZSO National Youth Orch/Alexander Shelley STRAUSS: Don Juan Op 20; BALLARD: Synergos; STRAUSS: Also sprach Zarathustra Op 30 (recorded in the Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington by RNZ)

• 4:30 PM. Childhood

  MOMPOU: Scenes of childhood - Arcadi Volodos (pno) (Sony 87654 33262)

  HILL: String Quartet No 6 in G, Kids - Australian String Quartet (Marco Polo 8.223746)

• 5:00 PM. New Horizons

  Ten programmes

  (3) With William Dart (R Fri 7.00pm) (RNZ)

• 6:00 PM. Opera on Sunday

  Metropolitan Opera Season

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

  (11) A Double-Bill

  TCHAIKOVSKY: Iolanta, a lyric opera in one act, based on Henrik Hertz's play King Rene's Daughter with libretto by Modest Tchaikovsky, the composer's brother

  Iolanta.......................... Anna Netrebko

  Count Vaudémont....... Piotr Beczala

  Robert.......................... Aleksei Markov

  King René.................... Ilya Bannik

  Ibn-Hakia..................... Elchin Azizov

  Metropolitan Opera Chorus & Orch/Valery Gergiev

  BARTÓK: Bluebeard's Castle Op 11, an opera in one act based on the French tale La Barbe bleue by Charles Parrault with libretto by Béla Balázs

  Bluebeard.................... Mikhail Petrenko

  Judith........................... Nadja Michael

  Metropolitan Opera Orch/Valery Gergiev (EBU)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  STRAVINSKY transcr compsr/Dushkin: Suite italienne - Viktoria Mullova (vln), Katia Labèque (pno) (Onyx 4015)

  FRANCK: Symphonic Variations - Cédric Tiberghien (pno), Liège Royal Phil/François-Xavier Roth (Cypres CYP 7612)

  RESPIGHI: Roman Festivals - Royal Phil/Josep Caballé-Domenech (Onyx 4083)

  11:00 ARENSKY: Piano Trio No 1 in D minor Op 32 - Turnovsky Trio (Trust MMT 2031)

  HAYDN: String Quartet in E Op 17/1 - Angeles String Quartet (Philips 464 650)

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