Sunday 24 April 2016 Rātapu 24 Paenga-whāwhā 2016

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  Disc 1

  BRAHMS orch Schoenberg: Piano Quartet in G minor; BRAHMS orch Rubbra: Variations & Fugue on a theme by Handel Op 24 - London SO/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHAN 8825)

  1:10 approx - Disc 2

  CORIGLIANO: Sonata for violin & piano; PÄRT: Fratres; MORAVEC: Sonata for violin & piano; GLINSKY: Toccata-Scherzo; MESSIAEN: Praise to the Immortality of Jesus - Maria Bachmann (vln), Jon Klibonoff (pno) (Catalyst 09026 61824)

  2:20 approx - Disc 3

  FINZI: God is gone up Op 27/2; Welcome sweet & sacred feast Op 27/3; Three Short Elegies Op 5; Thou didst delight my eyes Op 32; My lovely one Op 27/1; Let us now praise famous men Op 35; Seven Partsongs Op 17; Magnificat Op 36; White-flowering days Op 37; All this night Op 33; Lo, the full, final sacrifice Op 26 - Finzi Singers/Paul Spicer, Harry Bicket (org) (Chandos CHAN 8936)

  3:40 approx - Disc 4

  SCHUMANN: Fantasy in C Op 17; PROKOFIEV: Piano Sonata No 3 Op 28; SCRIABIN: Piano Sonata No 9 Op 68; RACHMANINOV: Etudes-tableaux Op 39 - Michael Houstoun (pno) (Trust MMT 2028)

  4:45 approx - Disc 5

  BIZET: Overture in A; Scene bohémiennes, La Jolie Fille de Perth; Symphony in C; Dramatic Overture, Patrie - Montreal SO/Charles Dutoit (Decca 452 102)

• 6:00 AM. Sanctuary

  TALLIS: Sancte Deus - Tallis Scholars/Peter Phillips (Gimell 454 895)

  CUNNINGHAM: The gentle light that wakes me - Nicola Benedetti, Aly Bain (vlns), Phil Cunningham (pno) (Decca 478 6690)

  DIENES: Jesu dulcis memoria - Choir of Wellington Cathedral of St Paul/Michael Stewart (Organism ORG 017)

  GLENNIE: A Little Prayer - Evelyn Glennie (marimba) (RCA 60242-2-RC)

  BACH: Cantata No 86, Truly, truly, I say to you - Arleen Auger (sop), Helen Watts (contralto), Adalbert Kraus (ten), Walter Heldwein (bass), Gächinger Kantorei, Stuttgart, Bach-Collegium, Stuttgart/Helmuth Rilling (Hänssler CD 92.027)

  GOULD: Spirituals for Strings - I Musici de Montréal/Yuli Turovsky (Chandos CHAN 9848)

  WILLAN: Three liturgical motets, I beheld her; Fair in face; Rise up, my love - Choir of St John's, Elora/Noel Edison (Naxos 8.557037)

  MACMILLAN: Serenity - Wells Cathedral Choir/Matthew Owens, Jonathan Vaughn (org) (Hyperion CDA 67867)

  RUTTER: The Lord is my Shepherd, from Requiem - Cambridge Singers, City of London Sinfonia/John Rutter, Quentin Poole (ob) (Collegium COL CD 100)

• 7:30 AM. Hymns on Sunday

  A weekly selection of traditional and modern hymns (RNZ)

• 8:00 AM. Grace Notes

  GRIEG: Morning, from Peer Gynt Suite No 1 - New Zealand SO/James Sedares (Universal 99072)

  PACHELBEL: Canon & Gigue in D - London Baroque/Charles Medlem (dir) (BIS CD 1135)

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

  TRAD: Suo-Gân - Bryn Terfel (bbar), Welsh National Opera Orch/Gareth Jones (DG 463 593)

  HANDEL: Minuet, from Berenice - English CO/Raymond Leppard (Sony MLK 64066)

  GRANADOS: The maiden & the nightingale, from Goyescas - Alicia de Larrocha (pno) (Decca 411 958)

  SANDSTROM: Song to Lotta - Stefan Schulz (bass tbn), Tomoko Sawano (pno) (BIS CD 1824)

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

  RESPIGHI: Aria, from Suite for flute & string orchestra - Sinfonia 21/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 9415)

• 9:00 AM. The Works

  TCHAIKOVSKY orch Taneyev: Do you not hear the nightingale?, from Romeo & Juliet - Suzanne Murphy (sop), Keith Lewis (ten), Scottish National Orch/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHAN 8476)

  SCHUBERT: Piano Sonata No 20 in A D959 - Michael Endres (pno) (Capriccio 10 730)

  ELGAR: Symphony No 2 in Eb Op 63 - London SO/Colin Davis (LSO Live LSO 0018)

• 11:00 AM. Concerts from The Frick

  Nine concerts, hosted by David Garland, from the music room at The Frick, the former New York residence of industrialist Henry Clay Frick

  (9) Quatuor Cambini Paris

  Hyacinthe JADIN: String Quartet No 1 in Eb Op 2; MOZART: Third movement, Menuetto Allegretto, from String Quartet No 19 in C, KV 465, Dissonances; Félicien DAVID: String Quartet No. 1 in F minor (American Public Radio)

• Noon The Critic's Choice

  The top choices from leading overseas music magazines

  HANDEL: Water Music Suite No 2 in D - Berlin Akademie für Alte Musik/ (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 2216)

  RACHMANINOV: Six Preludes, in D Op 23/4; in G minor Op 23/5; in G Op 32/5; in F minor Op 32/6; in G# minor Op 32/12; in Db Op 32/13 - Yevgeny Sudbin (pno) (BIS 1848 SACD)

  JANÁCEK: The Lord's Prayer (revised 1906) - Stuart Skelton (ten), Bergen Phil & Cathedral Choir, Edvard Grieg Kor/Edward Gardner, Johannes Wik (harp), Karstein Askeland (org) (Chandos CHSA 5165)

• 1:00 PM. Vintage Years

  Vintage Winds

  BRAHMS: Clarinet Sonata in Eb Op 120/2 - Frederick Thurston (cl), Myers Foggin (pno) (rec 1937) (Testament SBT 1366)

  IBERT: Three Short Pieces for wind quintet - Dennis Brain Wind Quintet (rec 1957) (BBC Legends BBCL 4066)

  MOZART: Clarinet Concerto in A K622 - Vladimír Ríha (cl), Czech Phil/Václav Talich (rec 1954) (Supraphon SU 3835)

• 2:00 PM. The Sunday Feature

  Verdi and Shakespeare

  Two programmes marking the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death (d 23 April 1616). Elizabeth Hudson examines the inspiration that the English playwright was for the Italian composer

  (1) Early encounters (RNZ)

• 3:00 PM. Sunday Concert

  Inbal Megiddo (cello), Alicia Cadwgan (sop), New Zealand School of Music Orch/Vincent Hardaker, Kenneth Young

  GADE: Hamlet Overture Op 37; VILLA-LOBOS: Cello Concerto No 2; VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Symphony No 3, Pastoral (recorded in St Andrew's on The Terrace, Wellington by RNZ)

• 4:25 PM. Russian Chamber Music

  SHOSTAKOVICH: String Quartet No 11 in F minor Op 122 - Carducci Quartet (Signum SIGCD 418)

  RACHMANINOV: Piano Trio No 1 in G minor, Elégiaque - Kempf Trio (BIS CD 1302)

• 5:00 PM. New Horizons

  Ten programmes

  (8) With William Dart (RNZ)

• 6:00 PM. Opera on Sunday

  Metropolitan Opera Season

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

  (17) MOZART: The Marriage of Figaro, a comic opera in four acts

  Figaro........................... Mikhail Petrenko

  Susanna........................ Anita Hartig

  Count........................... Luca Pisaroni

  Countess...................... Amanda Majeski

  Cherubino.................... Isabel Leonard

  Dr Bartolo.................... Maurizio Muraro

  Marcellina.................... Susanne Mentzer

  Don Basilio.................. Robert McPherson

  Antonio........................ Paul Corona

  Barbarina..................... Ashley Emerson

  Don Curzio.................. Scott Scully

  Metropolitan Opera Chorus & Orch/Fabio Luisi (EBU)

• 9:35 PM. From the New Zealand Collection

  PSATHAS: Helix - New Zealand Chamber Soloists (Atoll ACD 542)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  WAGNER: Prelude & Liebestod, from Tristan & Isolde - Christine Brewer (sop), Atlanta SO/Donald Runnicles (Telarc CD 80661)

  CHAUSSON: Piano Quartet in A Op 30 - Quatuor Schumann (Aeon AECD 0540)

  BRUCH: Suite on Russian Themes Op 79b - Hungarian State SO/Manfred Honeck (Naxos 8.555985)

  ALKAN: Grande Sonate, Les Quatre Ages, Op 33 - Marc-André Hamelin (pno) (Hyperion CDA 66794)

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