Sunday 22 March 2015 Rātapu 22 Poutū-te-rangi 2015

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  Disc 1

  HAYDN: Symphonies, No 45 in F# minor, Farewell; No 46 in B; No 47 in G - Hanover Band/Roy Goodman (Hyperion CDA 66522)

  1:15 approx - Disc 2

  PAISIELLO: Piano Concertos, No 2 in F; No 4 in G minor; No 3 in A; No 6 in Bb - Mariaclara Monetti (pno), English CO/Stephanie Gonley (ASV CD DCA 872)

  2:25 approx - Disc 3

  HANDEL: Cantatas, Haec est Regina virginum; Ah! Che troppo ineguali; Donna, che in ciel di tanta luce splendi; Il pianto di Maria, Giunta l'ora fatal - Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo), Musica Antiqua Cologne/Reinhard Goebel (Archiv 439 866)

  3:40 approx - Disc 4

  MARTINU: Sonata for flute, violin & piano; Promenades for flute, violin & harpsichord; Sonata for flute & piano; Five Madrigal Stanzas for violin & piano; Scherzo for flute & piano; Madrigal-sonata for flute, violin & piano - Angèle Dubeau (vln), Marc-André Hamelin (pno/hpschd), Alain Marion (fl) (Analekta FL 2 3031)

  4:50 approx - Disc 5

  RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Orchestral Suites, Suite from Snow Maiden; Suite from Legend of the Invisible City of Kitzeh and the Maiden Fevroniya; Nuit sur le Mont Triglav - Russian National Orchestra/Mikhail Pletnev (PTC 5186 362)

• 6:00 AM. Sanctuary

  GRETCHANINOV: Passion Week, excerpts - Caroline Markham (mezzo), Paul Davidson (ten), Bryan Taylor (bar), Phoenix Bach Choir, Kansas City Chorale/Charles Bruffy (Chandos CHSA 5044)

  ANON arr Barley: Ubi caritas - Matthew Barley (cello) (Black Box BBM 1068)

  GOUNOD: Mass No 4 in G minor for choir & two organs - Ensemble Vocal de Lausanne/Michel Corboz, Daniel Fuchs (org) (Apex 8573 89235)

  ALLEGRI: Miserere mei, Deus - The Sixteen/Harry Christophers (Coro COR 16014)

• 7:30 AM. Hymns on Sunday

  A weekly selection of traditional and modern hymns (RNZ)

• 8:00 AM. Grace Notes

  WAGNER: Tristan & Isolde, Prelude - Royal Opera House, Covent Garden Orch/Mark Elder (Sony SK 62032)

  MASCAGNI arr I Salonisti: Cavalleria Rusticana, Intermezzo - I Salonisti (London 458 382)

  STRAUSS: Wiegenlied Op 41/1 - Kiri Te Kanawa (sop), London SO/Andrew Davis (CBS MK 76794)

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

  FINZI: Romance in Eb Op 11 - Orch of the Swan/David Curtis (Somm SOMMCD 244)

  OURKOUZOUNOV: Makedonski pesen, from Four legends (Macedonian song) - Cavatina Duo (Cedille CDR 90000 117)

  KHACHATURIAN: Adagio of Spartacus & Phrygia, from Spartacus - Royal Phil/Yuri Temirkanov (EMI CDC 7 47348)

• 9:00 AM. Composer of the Week

  A look at the life and music of PYTOR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY (1840-1893) presented by William Dart (R Mon 7pm) (RNZ)

  Francesca da Rimini - Gothenburg SO/Neeme Järvi (BIS SACD 1348)

• 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

  (3) BACH: Orchestral Suite No 2 in B minor BWV1067 - Carol Wincenc (fl), Kristin Lee, Ian Swensen (vlns), Paul Neubauer (vla), Dane Johansen (cello), Scott Pingel (dbass), Wu Han (hpschd)

  J STRAUSS II: Emperor Waltz Op 437 - Carol Wincenc (fl), Jose Franchi-Ballester (cl), Gloria Chen (pno), Ian Swensen, Erin Keefe (vlns), Paul Neubauer (vla), Dane Johansen (cello)

  DEBUSSY: Danse sacrée et danse profane - Bridget Kibbey (harp), Erin Keefe, Kristin Lee (vlns), Paul Neubauer (vla), Dane Johansen (cello), Scott Pingel (dbass)

  BARTÓK: Romanian Folk Dances Sz68 - Erin Keefe, Joria Fleezanis, Adam Barnett-Hart, Wu Jie (vlns), Paul Neubauer, Geraldine Walther (vlas), Dane Johansen (cello), Scott Pingel (dbass)

  COPLAND: Appalachian Spring - Carol Wincenc (fl), Jose Franchi-Ballester (cl), Marc Goldberg (bsn), Joria Fleezanis, Wu Jie, Adam Barnett-Hart, Kirstin Lee (vlns), Pierre Laponte, Geraldine Walther (vlas), Dane Johansen, David Finckel (cellos), Scott Pingel (dbass), Gloria Chen (pno) (recorded at the Center for Performing Arts at Menlo-Atherton by American Public Media)

• 11:15 AM. The Works

  BALAKIREV: Symphony No 1 in C - Aarhus SO/James Loughran (Danacord DACOCD 616)

• Noon The Critic's Choice

  The top choices from leading overseas music magazines

  SCULTHORPE: Riverina (Gundyarri Wagga Wagga) - Tamara-Anna Cislowska (pno) (ABC Classics 481 1181)

  DUTILLEUX: The Shadows of Time - Benjamin Richardson, Kepler Swanson, Andrew Torgelson (trebles), Seattle Symphony/Ludovic Morlot (Seattle Symphony Media SSM 1001)

• 1:00 PM. Vintage Years

  Violinist Nathan Milstein

  BEETHOVEN: Violin Sonata No 5 in F Op 24, Spring - Artur Balsam (pno) (rec 1950) (Andante RE A 1090)

  BRAHMS: Violin Concerto in D Op 77 - Pittsburgh SO/William Steinberg (rec 1953-54) (EMI 5 67583)

• 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

  (2) Elegant Romantic (RNZ)

• 3:00 PM. Young New Zealand

  Wallace National Junior Piano Competition 2014

  Two programmes

  (1) BACH: Prelude & Fugue No 5 in D BWV874, from the Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2; BEETHOVEN: First movement, Allegro con brio, from Piano Sonata No 21 in C Op 53, Waldstein; CHOPIN: Etude in C minor Op 25/12 - Siyu Sun (pno)

  BEETHOVEN: Nos 2 in G minor; 3 in Eb; 6 in Eb, from Bagatelles Op 126; BRAHMS: Intermezzo in Eb minor Op 118/6 - Max Tang (pno)

  PÄRT: Partita Op 2; RAVEL: Third movement, Animé, from Sonatine; CHOPIN: Etude in Gb Op 10/5 - Lixin Zhang (pno) (recorded in the University of Auckland Music Theatre by RNZ)

• 3:55 PM. From the Historical Russian Archives

  DVORÁK: Symphony No 2 in Bb Op 4 - USSR Ministry of Culture SO/Gennady Rozhdestvensky (Brilliant Classics 9019)

• 5:00 PM. New Horizons

  Ten programmes

  (4) 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

  (12) MOZART: Don Giovanni, an opera in two acts

  The libertine and blasphemer Don Giovanni, whose main purpose in life is the seduction of women, gets his just reward in what many consider Mozart's greatest opera

  Don Giovanni.............. Peter Mattei

  Donna Anna................. Elza van den Heever

  Donna Elvira............... Emma Bell

  Zerlina......................... Kate Lindsey

  Don Ottavio................. Dmitry Korchak

  Leporello..................... Luca Pisaroni

  Masetto........................ Adam Plachetka

  Commendatore............ James Morris

  Metropolitan Opera Chorus & Orchestra/Alan Gilbert (EBU)

• 9:45 PM. From the New Zealand Collection

  FARQUHAR: Suite for guitar - Gunter Herbig (gtr) (Naxos 8.572185)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  FUX: Overture in Bb - Il Fondamento/Paul Dombrecht (dir) (Vanguard 99705)

  PLEYEL: Sinfonia Concertante in Bb - Anne Angerer (ob), Hanno Dönneweg (bsn), Stuttgart Radio SO/Johannes Moesus (CPO 777 606)

  LYATOSHYNSKY: Grazhyna Op 58 - Ukrainian State SO/Theodore Kuchar (Naxos 8.555578)

  11:00 CALACE: Mandolin Concerto No 2 Op 144 - Alison Stephens (mandolin), Steven Devine (pno) (Naxos 8.570434)

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

Next day - Mon 23

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