Sunday 31 July 2016 Rātapu 31 Hōngoingoi 2016

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  Disc 1

  SCHUBERT: Symphony No 8 in B minor, Unfinished; BEETHOVEN: Symphony No 3 in Eb, Eroica - BBC Phil/Stephen Kovacevich, Günther Herbig (BBC Music MM 136)

  1:10 approx - Disc 2

  SMYTH: String Quartet in E minor; String Quintet in E Op 1 - Mannheim String Quartet, Joachim Griesheimer (cello) (CPO 999 352)

  2:20 approx - Disc 3

  MUSSORGSKY: Songs & Dances of Death; The Nursery; The Puppet-Show; Forgotten; The Seminarist; Darling Savishna; The He-Goat, A Wordly Story; Mephistopheles' Song of the Flea - Sergei Leiferkus (bar), Semion Skigin (pno) (Conifer 75605 51229)

  3:35 approx - Disc 4

  G GABRIELLI: Canzona noni toni; CORELLI: Concerto Grosso in G minor Op 6/8; GEMINIANI: Concerto Grosso in E minor Op 3/3; MANFREDINI: Concerto in G minor Op 3/10; ALBINONI: Concerto in A minor Op 5/5; TORELLI: Concerto musicale in D minor Op 6/10; LOCATELLI: Concerto Grosso in D Op 1/9; CORELLI: Concerto Grosso in D Op 6/7 - ASMF/Neville Marriner (Decca 436 224)

  4:45 approx - Disc 5

  GINASTERA: Piezas Infantiles; Milonga, from Dos Canciones Op 3; Tres Piezas Op 6; Malambo Op 7; Suite de Criollas Op 15; Rondo Sobre Temas Infantiles Argentinos Op 19; Piano Sonata No 2 Op 53; Toccata; Piano Sonata No 3 Op 55 - Alberto Portugheis (pno) (ASV CD DCA 880)

• 6:00 AM. Sanctuary

  PEROTIN: Beata viscera - Rebecca Hickey (sop) (Naxos 8.557340)

  ANON arr Harms: Latvian Prayer - Dawn Harms (vla), Carolyn Mills (harp) (Atoll ACD 199)

  GOWERS: Veni, Sancte Spiritus - Guildford Cathedral Choir, Guildford Camerata/Stephen Farr, David Davies (organ of Guildford Cathedral) (Lammas LAMM 196D)

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

  FAURÉ/MESSAGER: Messe des pêcheurs de Villerville - Choeur de la Chapelle Royale, Petits Chanteurs de St-Louis, Ensemble Musique Oblique/Philippe Herreweghe (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1292)

  AUFSCHNAITER: Sonata St Ambrose Op 4/2 - Ars Antiqua Austria/Gunar Letzbor (dir) (Arcana A 313)

  BENJAMIN: Five Negro Spirituals - members of the Locrian Ensemble (Dutton CDLX 7110)

  K JENKINS: Ave verum corpus - Bryn Terfel (bar), Simon Keenlyside (bar), London SO/Barry Wordsworth (DG 477 5563)

• 7:30 AM. Hymns on Sunday

  A weekly selection of traditional and modern hymns (RNZ)

• 8:00 AM. Grace Notes

  SATIE arr Williams: Gnossiennes Nos 1-2 - John Williams (gtr) (Sony SK 60586)

  O LINDBERG arr Milone: Andante, from Gammal fäbodspsalm - Alison Balsom (tpt), Gothenburg SO/Edward Gardner (EMI 3 53255)

  LISZT: Concert Study No 3 in Db, Un Sospiro - Michael Houstoun (pno) (Tartar TRL 040)

  CANTELOUBE: Pastourelle, from Songs of the Auvergne - Kiri Te Kanawa (sop), English CO/Jeffrey Tate (Decca 443 334)

  FAURÉ: Fantaisie Op 79 - Peter Lloyd (fl), Rebecca Holt (pno) (IMP PCD 991)

  BRAHMS arr Heifetz/Reynolds: Contemplation - Nicola Benedetti (vln), London SO/Daniel Harding (DG 987 0577)

  FALVO arr Morini: Dicitencello vuje - Marco Beasley (ten), Guido Morini (pno) (NBE Live NBECD 010)

  BARBER: Adagio for Strings - New Zealand SO/ÁJames Sedares (Universal 399 878)

• 9:00 AM. The Works

  NIELSEN: Helios Overture - Danish National Radio SO/Gennady Rozhdestvensky (Chandos CHAN 9287)

  BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No 1 in C Op 15 - Mari Kodama (pno), Berlin Deutsches SO/Kent Nagano (Analekta AN 2 9955)

  JANÁČEK: String Quartet No 2, Intimate Letters - Jerusalem Quartet (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 2178)

  HOVHANESS: Symphony No 22, City of Light - Seattle Symphony/Alan Hovhaness (Naxos 8.559158)

• 11:00 AM. Chamber Music at Lincoln Center

  Hosted by Elliott Forrest, with commentary by the Chamber Music Society's Artistic Director, David Finckel, recorded in New York City

  American Winds

  NORMAN: Light Screens - Tara Helen O'Connor (fl), Kristin Lee (vln), Richard O'Neill (vla), Mihai Maric (cello)

  BERNSTEIN: Clarinet Sonata - David Shifrin (cl), Anne-Marie McDermott (pno)

  COPLAND: Sextet for clarinet, piano & string quartet - David Shifrin (cl), Anne-Marie McDermott (pno), Amphion String Quartet (WFMT)

• Noon The Critic's Choice

  The top choices from leading overseas music magazines

  HAYDN: The Creation, Part 1 - Sara Tynan (sop), Jeremy Ovenden (ten), Matthew Brook (bbar), Handel & Haydn Society/Harry Christophers (Coro COR 16135)

  BACH: Toccata & Fugue in D minor BWV565 - Masaaki Suzuki (organ of Martin's Church, Groningen, Netherlands) (BIS SACD 2111)

• 1:00 PM. Vintage Years

  Pierre Monteux and the San Francisco Symphony

  RAVEL: La Valse (rec 1941) (RCA 09026 61895)

  CHAUSSON: Poème Op 25 - with Jascha Heifetz (vln) (rec 1945) (Testament SBT 1216)

  IBERT: Escales (rec 1946) (RCA 09026 61895)

  BRAHMS: Alto Rhapsody Op 53 - with Marian Anderson (mezzo), San Francisco Chorus (rec 1945) (RCA 7911-2-RG)

• 2:00 PM. The Sunday Feature

  Celluloid Circus

  While movie lovers around the country are enjoying the 2016 NZ Film Festival, Wayne Brittenden delves into the heyday of the New Zealand picture theatre - an integral part of Kiwi cultural life between 1925-1970 (RNZ)

• 3:00 PM. Sunday Concert

  Wallace Piano Festival 2016

  Four programmes

  (1) Boris Giltburg (pno)

  RACHMANINOV: Études-tableaux Op 33; SHOSTAKOVICH arr Giltburg: String Quartet No 8 in C minor

  SCRIABIN: Piano Sonata No 4 in F sharp Op 30

  PROKOFIEV: Piano Sonata No 8 in Bb Op 84 (recorded in the University of Auckland Music Theatre by RNZ)

• 4:45 PM. An Afternoon Serenade

  VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Serenade to Music - London Phil/Vernon Handley (Chandos CHAN 6526)

• 5:00 PM. New Horizons

  William Dart hosts a half-hour of rock, pop, country, folk and beyond, following a personal trail to explore where his ears, gaze and nose guide him (RNZ)

• 5:30 PM. Early Evening Classics

  MOZART: Concerto in Eb for two pianos K365 - Vladimir Ashkenazy (pno), English Chamber Orchestra/Daniel Barenboim (pno/dir) (Decca 421 036)

• 6:00 PM. Opera on Sunday

  Four operas from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden

  (4) MASSENET: Werther, an opera in four acts

  Werther............................Vittorio Grigolo

  Charlotte.......................... Joyce DiDonato

  Sophie.............................. Heather Engebretson

  Albert............................... David Bizic

  The Bailli......................... Jonathan Summers

  Schmidt............................ François Piolino

  Johann.............................. Yuriy Yurchuk

  Kathchen.......................... Emily Edmonds

  Royal Opera House, Covent Garden Chorus & Orch/Antonio Pappano (BBC)

• 9:00 PM. From the New Zealand Collection

  NZ composers and performers

  FRANCK: Prelude, Fugue & Variation Op 18 - Philip Walsh (organ of St Paul's Cathedral, Wellington) (Trust MMT 2014)

  BRAHMS: Clarinet Sonata in F minor Op 120/1 - Peter Scholes (cl), Michael Houstoun (pno) (RNZ)

  A RITCHIE: Music for Tristan - Sharon Joy Vogan (pno) (SOUNZ Volume 1)

  DVORÁK: Symphony No 9 in E minor, From the New World (2) - New Zealand SO/James Sedares (RNZ)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  SAINT-SAËNS: Piano Quartet in Bb Op 41 - Avos Piano Quartet (Brilliant Classics 94652)

  HANDEL: Chandos Anthem No 10, The Lord is my light - Elizabeth Poole (sop), Andrew Murgatroyd (ten), BBC Singers, Orch of The Sixteen/Harry Christophers (BBC Music BBC MM 301)

  SCHUBERT: String Quintet in C D956 - Artemis Quartet, Truls Mörk (cello) (Virgin 5 02113)

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