Sunday 29 November 2015 Rātapu 29 Whiringa-ā-rangi 2015

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  Disc 1

  TUBIN: Sinfonietta on Estonian Motifs; Concerto for piano & orchestra; Symphony No 7 - Gothenburg SO/Neeme Järvi (BIS CD 401)

  1:10 approx - Disc 2

  BRAHMS: Hungarian Dances; JOACHIM: Andantino in A minor; Romance in Bb - Marat Bisengaliev (vln), John Lenehan (pno) (Naxos 8.553026)

  2:25 approx - Disc 3

  BACH: Cantatas, BWV199, Mein Herze schwimmt im Blut; BWV165, O heiliges Geist-und Wasserbad; BWV185, Barmherziges Herze der ewigen Liebe; BWV163, Nur jedem das Seine - Midori Suzuki, Aki Yanagisawa (sops), Makoto Sakurada (ten), Stephan Schreckenbergerger (bass), Bach Collegium Japan/Masaaki Suzuki (BIS CD 801)

  3:35 approx - Disc 4

  DECRÜCK: Sonata in C# DELVINCOURT: Croquembouches; SANCAN: Lamento et Rondo; Maurice: Tableaux de Provence; Köchlin: Etudes for saxophone and piano Op 188; DESENCLOS: Prélude, Cadence et Finale - Claude Delangle (sax), Odile Delangle (pno) (BIS CD 1130)

  4:35 approx - Disc 5

  RAWSTHORNE: Bagatelles; REYNOLDS: Two Poems in Homage to Delius; HOUGH: Valse Enigmatique Nos 1 & 2; ELGAR: In Smyrna; REYNOLDS: Two Poems in Homage to Fauré; BANTOCK arr Hough: Song to the Seals; BOWEN: Rêverie d'amour Op 20/2; Serious Dance Op 51/2; The way to Polden (an ambling tune) Op 76; BRIDGE: The Dew Fairy; Heart's Ease; LEIGHTON: Six Studies (Study-Variations) Op 56 - Stephen Hough (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67267)

• 6:00 AM. Sanctuary

  DUFAY: Nuper rosarum flores - Huelgas Ensemble/Paul van Nevel (dir) (Harmonia Mundi HMG 50 1700)

  GLENNIE: Light in Darkness - Evelyn Glennie (marimba) (RCA RD 60557)

  TRAD: The bright festival approaches; TRAD arr Ottósson: Now comes the world's salvation - Hamrahlíd Choir/Thorgerdur Ingólfsdóttir (Iceland MIC ITM 8-09)

  BRITTEN: Interlude, from A Ceremony of Carols - Carolyn Mills (harp) (Atoll ACD 602)

  CHILCOTT: The Advent Candle - Commotio/Matthew Berry, Tanya Houghton (harp) (Naxos 8.573159)

  DANDRIEU: Noël sur les flûtes - André Isoir (the Kern organ of Saint-Séverin) (Calliope CAL 5916)

  BACH: Cantata No 36, written for the 1st Sunday in Advent, Soar joyfully aloft - Hana Blaziková (sop), Robin Blaze (countertenor), Satoshi Mizukoshi (ten), Peter Kooij (bass), Bach Collegium Japan/Masaaki Suzuki (BIS CD 1861)

  TRAD arr Vaughan Williams: The truth from above; POSTON: Jesus Christ the apple tree; TRAD: Of the Father's heart begotten - The Sixteen/Harry Christophers, Robert Quinney (org) (Coro COR 16085)

  HANDEL: Comfort ye; Ev'ry valley, from Messiah - Ian Bostridge (ten), Orch of the Age of Enlightenment/Harry Bicket (EMI 3 82243)

• 7:30 AM. Hymns on Sunday

  A weekly selection of traditional and modern hymns (RNZ)

• 8:00 AM. Grace Notes

  MARTUCCI: Serenata Op 57/2 - Rome SO/Francesco La Vecchia (Naxos 8.570932)

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

  MASSENET arr Mouton: Mélodie-Elégie - Peter Dixon (cello), BBC Phil/Yan Pascal Tortelier (Chandos CHAN 9765)

  WHITEHEAD: Lullaby for Matthew - Dan Poynton (pno) (Rattle RAT D006)

  BERLIOZ: D'amour l'ardente flamme, from La Damnation de Faust - Frederica von Stade (mezzo), Chicago SO/Georg Solti (Decca 443 378)

  BACH: Third movement, Adagio ma non tanto, from Violin Sonata No 3 in E BWV1016 - Lara St John (vln), Marie-Pierre Langlamet (harp) (Ancalagon ANC 139)

  BIZET: Adagietto, from L'Arlésienne Suite No 1 - London SO/Neville Marriner (Philips 412 464)

  ALBÉNIZ arr Schaupp: Asturias, from Spanish Suite Op 47 - Karin Schaupp (gtr) (Warner 3984 23306)

  TANEYEV: Adagio in C - Novosibirsk Academic SO/Thomas Sanderling (Naxos 8.570584)

• 9:00 AM. History through the Violin

  As we listen to pieces of violin music, composed between the early 1700s and the early 1900s, we recognize changing forms and styles. But we seldom relate these changes to the wider changes happening in European culture. In this series John Drummond treats pieces of violin music as windows into the time of their composition, relating them to contemporary values, ideas and tastes

  (5) Ysaÿe (RNZ)

  YSAŸE: Sonata in A minor for solo violin Op 27/2 - Frank Peter Zimmermann (vln) (EMI CDC 5 55255)

  Paganini Variations - Laurent Korcia (vln), Haruko Ueda (pno) (Naïve V 5344)

• 10:00 AM. Brilliant Brass

  In this series David Bremner profiles six 'Legends of Brass'

  (5) Kevin Jarrett

  The champion cornet and trumpet player, brass band leader, Music Director of the National Band of New Zealand and the NZ Army Band was awarded an MBE in 1986 (RNZ)

• 11:00 AM. The Works

  PEZ: Overture in Bb R9 - Les Muffatti/Peter van Heyghen (Ramée RAM 0705)

  DEVIENNE: Flute Concerto No 2 in D - Patrick Gallois (fl/dir), Swedish CO (Naxos 8.573230)

  PROKOFIEV: Scythian Suite Op 20 - Bergen Phil/Andrew Litton (BIS SACD 2124)

• Noon The Critic's Choice

  The top choices from leading overseas music magazines

  BRAHMS: String Quartet No 3 in Bb Op 67 - Artemis Quartet (Erato 0825 646195794)

  SCHUMANN: Abegg Variations Op 1 - Imogen Cooper (pno) (Chandos CHAN 10874)

• 1:00 PM. Vintage Years

  GOTTSCHALK: The Last Hope Op 16 - Eugene List (pno) (rec 1956) (Vanguard 08 4050 71)

  THOMSON: The Plow that broke the Plains - Hollywood Bowl SO/Leopold Stokowski (rec 1946) (RCA 09026 68163)

  GERSHWIN: Piano Concerto in F - Julius Katchen (pno), Mantovani & his Orch/Annunzio Paolo Mantovani (rec 1955) (Decca 475 6159)

  GERSHWIN orch Grofé: The Yankee Doodle blues - Harmonie Ensemble, New York/Steven Richman (Harmonia Mundi HMU 90 7492)

• 2:00 PM. The Sunday Feature

  By Royal Command

  Brian Kay presents two programmes of music written for royal occasions in the United Kingdom (1) (RNZ)

• 3:00 PM. Young New Zealand

  The Big Sing 2015

  Nine programmes

  (5) Highlights from this year's National Finale featuring St Cecilia Singers (Diocesan School for Girls), Resolutions (Rangi Ruru Girls' School), Macleans College Choir (Macleans College), Craighead Chorale (Craighead Diocesan School), Teal Voices (Wellington Girls' College), Fortissimo (Dilworth School) (recorded in the Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington by RNZ)

• 4:15 PM. Going Lake Side

  VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: The Lake in the Mountains - Iain Burnside (pno) (Albion ALB 015)

  MERTZ: Boat trip on the Traunsee - Johannes Möller, Laura Fraticelli (gtrs) (Naxos 8.573055)

  DVARIONAS: Pezzo elegiaco, By the lake - Vadim Gluzman (vln), Hague Residentie Orch/Neeme Järvi (BIS CD 1822)

  TCHAIKOVSKY: Swan Lake, Suite - Chicago SO/Georg Solti (Decca 425 516)

• 5:00 PM. Burt Bacharach

  In a COW series from 2007 William Dart interviews and looks at the music of the American composer who has recently visited New Zealand

  (2) Don't make me over; This Empty Place; Walk on By - Dionne Warwick (vocalist); The Windows of the World - Mormon Tabernacle Choir; A Message to Michael - Cal Tjader (vibes) and group; Alfie - Patricia Barber (vocalist); Saturday Sunshine; And the People were with her - Burt Bacharach and orchestra; Magdalena, from 'Woman' - soloists, Houston Symphony Orchestra/Burt Bacharach; The Blob - The Five Blobs; Rome will Never Leave You - Richard Chamberlain (vocalist); Promise Her Anything - Tom Jones (vocalist) (R Tues 7.00pm) (RNZ)

• 6:00 PM. Opera on Sunday

  Euroradio Opera Season

  A selection of live operatic performances recorded by some of the world's major public broadcasters

  VERDI: Otello, an opera in four acts

  Otello................................ Kristian Benedikt

  Desdemona....................... Malin Byström

  Iago.................................. Vladimir Stoyanov

  Emilia............................... Susann Végh

  Cassio............................... Klas Hedlund

  Roderigo........................... Daniel Ralphsson

  Lodovico.......................... Michael Schmidberger

  Montano........................... Kristian Flor

  Royal Swedish Opera Chorus & Orch/Alexander Vedernikov (recorded in the Royal Opera House, Stockholm by Swedish Radio)

• 8:40 PM. More of the Moor

  LILBURN: Willow Song, from Othello - Elizabeth Holowell (vln), Dean Sky-Lucas (pno) (Atoll ACD 941)

  HERZ: Fantaisie et variations sur la marche d'Otello de Rossini Op 67 - Howard Shelley (pno/dir), Tasmanian SO (Hyperion CDA 68100)

• 9:00 PM. From the New Zealand Collection

  PRUDEN: Haast Highway - Skellerup Woolston Band/Mervyn J Waters (Kiwi SLD 66)

  ROUSSEL: Joueurs de flûte Op 27 - Bridget Douglas (fl), Rachel Thomson (pno) (Trust MMT 2039)

  FINZI: Let us garlands bring - Jonathan Lemalu (bbar), BBC SO/Jac Van Steen (BBC Music BBC MM 298)

  BEETHOVEN: Piano Quartet in D WoO36/2 - New Zealand Piano Quartet (Naxos 8.570998)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  WEYSE: Symphony No 7 in Eb - Royal Danish Orch/Michael Schønwandt (Da Capo 8.224014)

  VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Piano Concerto in C - Piers Lane (pno), Royal Liverpool Phil/Vernon Handley (EMI 5 65742)

  11:00 COPLAND: Appalachian Spring - New York Harmonie Ensemble/Steven Richman (Bridge 9145)

  SAINT-SAËNS: String Quartet No 2 in G Op 153 - Fine Arts Quartet (Naxos 8.572454)

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