Sunday 29 March 2015 Rātapu 29 Poutū-te-rangi 2015

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  Disc 1

  HAYDN: Symphonies, No 22 in Eb, The Philosopher; No 23 in G; No 24 in D; No 25 in C - Hanover Band/Roy Goodman (Hyperion CDA 66536)

  1:15 approx - Disc 2

  MOLIERO: Sonatinas, No 1 in A minor; No 2 in C; No 3 in G minor; No 4 in D; No 5 in A minor; Toccatas, in C# minor; in B minor; in C; Little Suite; Prelude & Fugue in C# minor; Children's Suite; Two Miniatures; Playera; The Fountain; Serenade in the Spanish Style; Concert Study; Pictures of the Plains; Joropo - Clara Rodriguez (pno) (ASV CD DCA 890)

  2:30 approx - Disc 3

  MAHLER: Kindertotenlieder; 5 Rückertlieder; Lieder Eines Fahrenden Gesellen - Janet Baker (mezzo), Hallé Orch, New Philharmonia/John Barbirolli (EMI CDC 747 793)

  3:35 approx - Disc 4

  HANDEL: Sonatas, in G for two violins & basso continuo Op 5/4; in A for violin & basso continuo Op 1/3; in G minor for two violins & basso continuo; in B minor for flute, violin & basso continuo Op 2/1; in D for two violins & basso continuo Op 5/2; in Bb for two violins & basso continuo Op 2/3 - English Concert (Archiv 415 497)

  4:40 approx - Disc 5

  ARNOLD: The Bridge on the River Kwai; Whistle Down the Wind; The Sound Barrier; Hobson's Choice; The Inn of the Sixth Happiness - London SO/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 9100)

• 6:00 AM. Sanctuary

  VICTORIA: Vexilla Regis - The Sixteen/Harry Christophers (Collins 15182)

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

  SCHUBERT: Six Antiphons for the Blessing of the Branches on Palm Sunday D696 - Bavarian Radio Choir/Wolfgang Sawallisch (EMI CMS 7 64783)

  G IVES: Missa brevis - Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford/Bill Ives, Jonathan Hardy (org) (Harmonia Mundi HMU 90 7420)

  BRUCKNER: Vexilla Regis - Polyphony/Stephen Layton (Hyperion CDA 67629)

  BACH: Cantata No 182, written for Palm Sunday, King of Heaven, thou art welcome - Nathalie Stutzmann (contralto), James Gilchrist (ten), Peter Harvey (bass), Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists/John Eliot Gardiner (Soli Deo Gloria SDG 118)

  ALAIN: Litanies - Philip Walsh (organ of St Paul's Cathedral, Wellington) (Trust MMT 2014)

• 7:30 AM. Hymns on Sunday

  A weekly selection of traditional and modern hymns (RNZ)

• 8:00 AM. Grace Notes

  STÖLZEL orch Klemperer: Bist du bei mir, from the Anna Magdalena Songbook - BBC SO/Leonard Slatkin (Chandos CHSA 5030)

  BEETHOVEN: Bagatelle No 25 in A minor, Für Elise - Vladimir Ashkenazy (pno) (Decca 466 462)

  HANDEL: Tune your harps, from Esther - Mark Padmore (ten), Katharina Spreckelsen (ob), English Concert/Andrew Manze (dir) (Harmonia Mundi HMU 90 7422)

  GIORGINAKIS: Therismos, from Greek Memories - Arada Guitar Duo (Landor LAN 284)

  TRAD: The Gentle Swan, from Irish Folk Song Society Journal, 1905 - Ensemble Galilei (ABC 472 610)

  GRIEG: The Last Spring Op 34/2 - Henning Kraggerud (vln), Razumovsky SO/Bjarte Engeset (Naxos 8.554497)

  ELGAR: Salut d'amour Op 12 - Nigel Kennedy (vln), Steven Isserlis (cello), Peter Pettinger (pno) (Chandos CHAN 8380)

  FARR: Waipoua - Mary Scott (cl), New Zealand SO/Kenneth Young (Trust MMT 2021)

  MENDELSSOHN: Verleih' uns Frieden - Corydon Singers, English CO/Matthew Best, John Scott (org) (Hyperion CDA 66359)

  HAWES: Fair Albion - Prague SO/Patrick Hawes (Signum SIGCD 178)

• 9:00 AM. Composer of the Week

  Indra Hughes looks at the sacred music of WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART (1756-1791) (R Mon 7.00pm) (RNZ)

  Passion Cantata, Grabmusik K42 - Patrick Jaidhauser (treble), Andreas Lebeda (bass), St Florian Boys' Choir, Ars Antiqua Austria/Gunar Letzbor (dir) (Chesky CD 172)

• 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

  (4) DVORÁK: Piano Trio No 3 in F minor Op 65 - Gilbert Kalish (pno), Arnaud Sussmann (vln), David Finckel (cello)

  FAURÉ: Piano Quartet No 2 in G minor Op 45 - Wu Han (pno), Arnaud Sussmann (vln), Richard O'Neill (vla), Dmitri Atapine (cello) (recorded at the Center for Performing Arts at Menlo-Atherton by American Public Media)

• 11:15 AM. The Works

  WEBER: Bassoon Concerto in F Op 75 - Laurence Perkins (bsn), Manchester Camerata/Douglas Boyd (Hyperion CDA 67288)

  KUULA: South Ostrobothnian, Suite No 2 - BBC Concert Orch/Martyn Brabbins (Dutton Epoch CDLX 7272)

• Noon The Critic's Choice

  The top choices from leading overseas music magazines

  DEBUSSY: Five Poems of Charles Baudelaire, The balcony; Evening harmonie; The fountain; Meditation; The death of lovers - Stephanie D'Oustrac (mezzo), Pascal Jourdan (pno) (Ambronay AMY 042)

  LISZT: Piano Concerto No 2 in A - Nelson Freire (pno), Bavarian Radio SO/Eleazar de Carvalho (Decca 478 6772)

• 1:00 PM. Vintage Years

  WILLIAM WALTON

  Crown Imperial - Eastman Wind Ensemble/Frederick Fennell (rec 1958) (Mercury 432 009)

  Symphony No 1 in Bb minor; Henry V, excerpts - New Zealand SO/William Walton (rec 1964) (Bridge 9133A/B)

• 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

  (3) At home with Brahms (RNZ)

• 3:00 PM. Young New Zealand

  Wallace National Junior Piano Competition 2014

  Two programmes

  (2) MOZART: First movement, Allegro, from Piano Sonata No 15 in F K533; DEBUSSY: First movement, Prelude, from Suite bergamasque; Second movement, from Piano Sonatina No 1 - Raewyn Huang (pno)

  BACH: Prelude & Fugue in C# minor, from the Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2; RACHMANINOV: Prelude in G minor Op 23/5 - Chenxiao Chen (pno)

  BEETHOVEN: First movement, Largo-Allegro, from Piano Sonata No 17 in D minor Op 31/2, Tempest; RACHMANINOV: Preludes, in G Op 32/5; in C minor Op 23/7; RAVEL: Alborada del gracioso, from Miroirs - Delvan Lin (pno) (recorded in the University of Auckland Music Theatre by RNZ)

• 3:55 PM. Don Quixote

  MONIUSZKO: The New Don Quixote, or 100 Follies, Overture - Warsaw Phil/Antoni Wit (Naxos 8.572716)

  STRAUSS: Don Quixote - Leon Spierer (vln), Wolfram Christ (vla), António Meneses (cello), Berlin Phil/Herbert von Karajan (DG 419 599)

  MINKUS arr March: Pas de deux, from Don Quixote - English Concert Orch/Richard Bonynge (Decca 421 818)

• 5:00 PM. New Horizons

  Ten programmes

  (5) 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

  (13) MOZART: The Magic Flute, an opera in two acts

  In March 1791, Mozart's old Salzburg acquaintance, the actor and impresario Emanuel Schikaneder, commissioned a Singspiel for his suburban Viennese theatre. He himself played Papageno at the première in the Theater auf der Wieden, on September 30, 1791

  Tamino.............................. Toby Spence

  Papageno.......................... Markus Werba

  Three Ladies..................... Amy Shoremount-Obra

  .......................................... Renée Tatum

  .......................................... Margaret Lattimore

  Queen of the Night.......... Ana Durlovski

  Monostatos....................... Mark Schowalter

  Pamina.............................. Pretty Yende

  Sarastro............................. René Pape

  Papagena.......................... Ashley Emerson

  Three Spirits..................... Connor Tsui

  .......................................... Sebastian Berg

  .......................................... Andre Gulick

  Speaker............................. Ryan McKinny

  Priests............................... Paul Corona

  .......................................... Tony Stevenson

  Guards.............................. Anthony Kalil

  .......................................... Rod Nelman

  Metropolitan Opera Chorus & Orch/Adam Fischer (EBU)

• 9:35 PM. From the New Zealand Collection

  ENESCU arr Maurice: Violin Sonata No 3 in A minor Op 25 - Donald Maurice (vla), Richard Mapp (pno) (Atoll ACD 413)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  RICHARD RODNEY BENNETT (29-3-1936 to 24-12-2012)

  Missa brevis - Cambridge Singers/John Rutter (Collegium CSACD 901)

  Reflections on a 16th-Century Tune - Philharmonia/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 10389)

  JACOB: Oboe Concerto No 1 - Ruth Bolister (ob), Elgar CO/Stephen Bell (ASV CD DCA 1173)

  11:00 SCHUBERT: Piano Sonata No 15 in C D840, Relique - Tessa Birnie (pno) (ABC Classics 476 6479)

  SCHMITT: Suite en rocaille Op 84 - Mirage Quintet (Naxos 8.570444)

  RHEINBERGER: Three Pieces for cello & organ, Abendlied; Pastorale; Elegie - Cäcilia Chmel (cello), Stefan Johannes Bleicher (organ of Stadtkirche, Winterthur, Switzerland) (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 901 1643)

Next day - Mon 30

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