Schedule for Friday 25 December 2020

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12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

RAMEAU: Entrée de Polymnie, from Les Boréades - Les Musiciens du Louvre/Marc Minkowski (Archiv 477 5578)
HILL: String Quartet No 3 in A minor, Carnival - Dominion Quartet (Naxos 8.570491)
KELLY: Songs without Words - Justine Cormack (violin), Miranda Adams (violin), Robert Ashworth (viola), Ashley Brown (cello) (RNZ UB20)
SAMETZ: Gaudete! - ORA/Suzi Digby (ORA )
FARR: Piano Trio, Ahi - NZTrio (Trust MMT 2066)
1:00 approx
HOFMANN: Symphony in D (Badley D4) - Northern CO/Nicholas Ward (vln/dir) (Naxos 8.553866)
RICHTER: Flute Concerto in E minor - Barthold Kuijken (fl), Tafelmusik/Jeanne Lamon (dir) (SONY SK 48045)
TRADITIONAL: Kwambayah - Huddersfield Choral Society, Sellers Engineering Band/Brian Kay (Chandos CHAN 4530)
MOZART arr Albulescu: Alberti's Fantasy - Eugene Albulescu (pno) (DOWNSTAGE DSR 1009)
PSATHAS: Psyzygysm - Pedro Carniero (vibraphone), Jeremy Fitzsimons (marimba), Stroma (RATTLE RAT D018)
2:00 approx
PALESTRINA: Missa Tu es Petrus - Choir of Westminster Cathedral/Martin Baker (Hyperion CDA 67785)
MOMPOU: Variations on a theme of Chopin - Jonathan Plowright (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67803)
BLOCH: Abodah - Suyeon Kang (vln), Stephen De Pledge (pno) (Atoll ACD 818)
CHILCOTT: A Thanksgiving - The King's Singers, National Youth Chamber Choir of Great Britain (Signum SIGCD497)
3:00 approx
ROTA: Symphony on a love song - Teatro Massimo SO/Marzio Conti (Chandos CHAN 10090)
DUSSEK: Trio in F for flute, cello & piano Op 65 - Clive Conway (fl), Christina Shillito (cello), Christine Croshaw (pno) (MERIDIAN CDE 84383)
RÓZSA: Legend & Epilogue, from El Cid - Tamra Saylor Fine (org), New Zealand Youth Choir, New Zealand SO/James Sedares (KOCH 1986981)
HEAD arr Hughes: Star candles - Jack Bourke (ten), Musica Sacra/Indra Hughes (Atoll ACD 501)
4:00 approx
ORTIZ: Recercada sobre tenore - Robert Sagasser (viola da gamba), Martina Rothbauer (viola da gamba), Paulina van Laarhoven (viola da gamba, Matthias Müller (violone), Lee Santana (lute/gtr/chitarrone) (DHM 05472 77502)
STRAUSS: Don Quixote - Lynn Harrell (cello), David Greenlees (vla), Royal Liverpool Phil/Gerard Schwarz (RLPO LIVE RLCD 403)
VIVALDI: Concerto in G minor for strings RV152 - Venice Baroque Orch/Andrea Marcon (dir) (Archiv 474 5092)
ROPARTZ: Piece in Eb minor - David Bremner (tbn), Sarah Watkins (pno) (Atoll ACD 109)
POULENC: O magnum mysterium, from Four Christmas Motets - The King's Singers (Signum SIGCD497)
5:00 approx
BIBER: The Annunciation, from The Mystery Sonatas - John Holloway (vln), Tragicomedia (Virgin VCD 7 90838)
BEETHOVEN: Symphony No 6 in F Op 68, Pastoral (2) - Royal Flemish Phil/Philippe Herreweghe (PENTATONE PTC 5186 314)
CHARPENTIER: Noëls pour les instruments - Les Violons du Roy (Dorian DOR 90180)
BUXTEHUDE: Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern BuxWV223 - Ton Koopman (org) (Novalis 150 048)
LOCATELLI: Concerto Grosso in F minor Op 1/8, Christmas - Amsterdam Baroque Orch/Ton Koopman (dir) (Challenge CC 72134)
HAIRSTON arr Cullen & Hazell: Mary's Boy Child - Bryn Terfel (bar), Côrdydd, Orchestra of the Welsh National Opera/Tecwyn Evans (DG 477 8768)
6:00 AM. Summer Mornings

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2020 Christmas Day Church Service
Cathedral Of St Patrick & St Joseph, Auckland

WADE arr Tibbles/Jennings: O come, All Ye Faithful
Britten/Dearmer: A Boy was Born
Plainsong from the Missa De Angelis: Kyrie
Alonso: Gloria
Bernadette Farrell: Today, Today a Saviour has been born
Plainchant/James J Chepponis: Christmastime Alleluia
Trad.: Angels we have heard on high
Alonso: Sanctus
Alonso: Memorial acclamation
Alonso: Great Amen
Alonso: Agnus Dei
Rutter: Nativity Carol
Trad. Desc: Willcocks: Hark! The herald angels sing

Auxiliary Bishop Michael Gielen (celebrant), Maeve Herd (cantor), James Tibbles (org), Cathedral Of St Patrick & St Joseph Choir/Nicholas Forbes

Cathedral Of St Patrick & St Joseph, Auckland (RNZ)

7.00

WALTON: Make we joy now in this fest - Handel & Haydn Society Chorus/Grant Llewellyn (Avie AV 2078)

TRADITIONAL arr Hazell: What Child is This? (Greensleeves) - Bryn Terfel (bar), Orchestra of the Welsh National Opera/Tecwyn Evans (DG 477 8768)

PALESTRINA trans Stokowski: Adoramus te - Brussels Phil/Richard Egarr (GLOSSA GCDSA 922209)

TRADITIONAL: In dulci jubilo - Chanticleer (Teldec 94563)

DOHNÁNYI: Pastorale on a Hungarian Christmas Song - Martin Roscoe (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67871)

SIRETT: Thou Shalt Know Him - Choir of St. John's, Elora (Marshall Arts NA)

HOWELLS: Here is the little door - Voices New Zealand/Karen Grylls (Trust MMT 2052)

CORNELIUS arr Atkins: The Three Kings - Teddy Tahu Rhodes (bar), Cantillation (ABC Classics 472 044)

FERRANDINI: Christmas Symphony - New Zealand SO/Marc Taddei (Trust MMT 2043)

HEAD: The little road to Bethlehem - Choir of Westminster Abbey/James O'Donnell (Hyperion CDA 67716)

FOSTER: While shepherds watched their flocks - Taverner Choir and Players/Andrew Parrott (EMI 7 54529)

8.00

TIOMKIN: Main Title from It's a Wonderful Life - Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Ambrosian Singers/David Newman (TELARC CD 88801)

ARTELY: O magnum mysterium - Burnside High School Senior Chorale/Susan Densem (RNZ 2015)

CORRETTE: Christmas Symphony No 2 - La Fantasia/Rien Voskuilen (Brilliant Classics 95569BR)

RUTTER: What sweeter music - Elora Festival Singers (Naxos 8.554179)

BACH: Ave Maria - Kiri Te Kanawa (sop), Utah SO/Julius Rudel (Decca 473 168)

BIEBL: Ave Maria - Julian Chu-Tan (ten), Theo Moolenaar (ten), Harry Grigg (bass), NZ Secondary Students Choir 2013-14 (RNZ DB35)

MONTERO: Improvisation on Handel's Hallelujah - Gabriela Montero (pno) (EMI 5 14838)

MONTERO: Improvisation on Vivaldi's Summer & Winter - Gabriela Montero (pno) (EMI 5 14838)

GERSHWIN: Summertime - Daniel Hope (violin), Sebastian Knauer (piano) (DG 4839482)

TRADITIONAL arr Keating: God Rest You Merry Gentlemen - The King's Singers (Signum SIGCD497)

MARAIS: March, air & tambourin pour les Matelots - Le Concert des Nations/Jordi Savall (Auvidis Fontalis ES 9903)
9:00 AM. Summer Days

REED: A Christmas Intrada - Central Band of the Royal New Zealand Airforce, Janet Gibbs (org/Squadron Leader Graham Hanify (KIWI CD SLC 216)
HAMILTON: A Child comes forth - Helen Webby (harp), Rowan Johnston (percussion), Key Cygnetures/Elise Bradley (RNZ UB15)
TCHAIKOVSKY: The Nutcracker Op 71 - (DG 4836274)
11.00
TRADITIONAL: Wexford Carol - The Sixteen/Harry Christophers (CORO COR 16085)
TRADITIONAL: The Cherry Tree Carol - The Sixteen/Harry Christophers (CORO COR 16085)
RUTTER: Brother Heinrich's Christmas - Brian Kay (narrator), Cambridge Singers, City of London Sinfonia (Collegium COL CD 115)
TRADITIONAL: American Songs - Kathleen Battle (sop), Frederica von Stade (mezzo), Nancy Allen (harp), American Boychoir, Christmas Concert Chorus, Orch of St Luke's/André Previn (Sony SK 48235)
12.00
EVANS: Ring-A The News - Elora Festival Singers, Michael Bloss (org) (Naxos 8.554179)
FOX: Carol Fantasia - RTE Concert Orch/Gavin Sutherland (Naxos 8.572744)
GRUBER arr Terence Maskell: Po Marie; Silent Night - Whanau London Voices (Whanau London Voices 2020)
TRADITIONAL/LYRICS BY KINGI IHAKA arr Rutter: A Pukeko in a Ponga Tree; The 12 Days of Christmas - Whanau London Voices (Whanau London Voices 2020)
ANDERSON: Mele Kalikimaka - Sol3 Mio (Universal 671 3660)
GLAZUNOV: Festive Moods - Shostakovich Quartet (Olympia OCD 575)
TRADITIONAL arr. by J. Sorrell: - Apollo's Fire (Avie AV2396)
TRADITIONAL arr Sorrell: Nowell Sing We, Both All and Some - Amanda Powell, Molly Netter, Ross Hauck, Jeffrey Strauss (vocals), Apollo's Singers, Apollo's Fire (Avie AV2396)
TRADITIONAL: - Amanda Powell & Ross Hauck (vocals) (Avie AV2396)
TRADITIONAL: - Michael Temesi (treble), Jeffrey Strauss (baritone), With Apollo's Musettes, Apollo's Fire (Avie AV2396)
1:00 PM. Onstage

APO: Celebrate Christmas 2020
BACH: Cantata No 147, Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, excerpts
PRAETORIUS: Es ist ein Ros' entsprungen
HANDEL: Pastoral Symphony, from Messiah
MOZART: Exsultate, jubilate K165
BIZET: Jeux d'enfants Op 22
LAURIDSEN: O nata lux, from Lux Aeterna
TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No 1 in G minor Op 13, Winter Daydreams (3), Scherzo
REGER: Maria Wiegenlied
GAUNTLETT arr Rutter: Once in royal David's city
HANDEL arr Rutter: Joy to the World
MENDELSSOHN arr Willcocks: Hark! the herald angels sing
HANDEL: Hallelujah Chorus, from Messiah
GRUBER arr Maskell: Silent Night
Amelia Berry (sop), The Graduate Choir NZ, Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra/Hamish McKeich, Terence Maskell
Holy Trinity Cathedral, Auckland (RNZ)
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Fantasia on Greensleeves - NZSO/Benjamin Northey/Benjamin Northey (RNZ )
WAGNER: Siegfried Idyll - New Zealand SO/Edo de Waart (RNZ 2017)
BACH: Canonic Variations on Vom Himmel hoch BWV769 - Gillian Weir (org) (PRIORY PRCD 753)
3:00 PM. RNZ Concert Afternoons

A Choral Christmas with Bob Chilcott, Jess Gillam, Katie Melua and the BBC Singers Concert Orchestra, from London

TRAD: Ding dong! merrily on high

C ONYEJI: Amuworo ayi otu nwa

CHILCOTT: The Midnight of Your Birth

TRAD: Tomorrow shall be my dancing day

TRAD: O Little Town of Bethlehem

TRAD: Festive Cheer

MILHAUD: Brazileira: Mouvement de samba, from Scaramouche

CHILCOTT: Sweet was the Song, from 'On Christmas Night'

Silent Night

PIERPONT: Jingle Bells

MIKE BATT: Nine Million Bicycles

KATIE MELUA: Maybe I Dreamt It

BERLIN: White Christmas

ALISON CARVER: Thinking of You This Christmas

WADE: O Come, All Ye Faithful

Katie Melua (vocal), Jess Gillam (saxophone, presenter), Rachel Mahon (organ, piano), Ashok Gupta (piano), BBC Singers, Jonathan Manners (chorus director), Members of the BBC Concert Orchestra/Bob Chilcott

Barbican Hall, London (BBC Radio 3)

4:00 Made in New Zealand Christmas

GRUBER: Stille Nacht - Madison Nonoa (sop), Australian Brandenburg Choir & Orch/Paul Dyer (ABC Classics ABC Live 2017)

TRADITIONAL arr Palmer: Coventry Carol - Madison Nonoa (sop), Australian Brandenburg Choir & Orch/Paul Dyer (ABC Classics ABC Live 2017)

HAMILTON: Follow the star, from Noël; Ma te atua; (3) - Opus 1998/David Hamilton (Private - DH 2000A)

PHILIPS: Stella, quam viderant Magi - Tudor Consort/Peter Walls (Naxos 8.555056)

LILBURN: Two Christmas Pieces for LB (1941) - Margaret Nielsen (pno) (RNZ )

LILBURN: Two Christmas Pieces for LB (1949) - Margaret Nielsen (pno) (RNZ )

RITCHIE: Fourteen Christmas Cards - Jubilate Singers, Jubilate Chamber Orchestra/John Pattinson (JUBILATE JUB 001)

BENNETT arr Hornblow: Awake before sunrise - instrumental group, Wellington Secondary Students' Choir/Roger Stevenson (NZ HYMNBOOK TRUST 2002A)

MARTIN: Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas - Sol3 Mio (Universal 674 3660)

FERRANDINI: Christmas Symphony (3) - NZSO/Marc Taddei (Trust MMT 2043)
5:00 PM. New Horizons with William Dart

A Kiwi Christmas

A guide to the worlds of rock, pop, country, folk and beyond

5:30 Songs of Peace and Joy

GABRIELI: Jubilate Deo - Canadian Brass & Berlin Philharmonic Brass ( MLK 66708)

TRAD: Improvisation on Dona Nobis Pacem - Yo-Yo Ma (cello) (Sony 88697 34390)

JENKINS: Praise, Joy & Gladness - Polyphony, Britten Sinfonia/Stephen Layton (Decca 4818580)

HIGDON: Harp Concerto (2) Joy Ride - Yolanda Kondonassis (harp), Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra/Ward Stare (Azica ACD 71327)

GRAINGER: Peace - Martin Jones (pno) (NIMBUS NI 1767)

EVANS: Peace Piece - Bill Evans (pno) (Riverside RLP 12-291)
6:00 PM. Inside Out

Christmas Special with Nick Tipping
7:00 PM. Summer Evenings

He Korokoro tui - a Christmas Waiata with Justine Murray
KENT: I'll Be Home For Christmas - Sol3 Mio (Universal 674 3660)
STAMITZ: Christmas Symphony 4/2 - New Zealand SO/Marc Taddei (Trust MMT 2043)
8:00 PM. Music Alive

Christmas Concert with La Nef and sopranos Meredith Hall and Donna Kanerahtenha:wi Jacobs, from Montreal
Baroque and traditional Christmas music from Montreal's founding communities
ANON/BREBEUF: Eesus ahatonnyah (The Huron Carol)
TRAD: Nous voici dans la ville
DANDRIEU: Or, nous dites, Marie
TRAD: What Child is This?
TRAD: Usheg Veg Ruy (Little Red Bird)
PLAYFORD: On the Cold Ground
Drive the Cold Winter Away
Cold and Raw
My Lodging is on the Cold Ground
TRAD: Welsh Carol
DAQUIN: Suite de Noëls français
TRAD/BURNS: A cogie of Ale and a Pickle Ait Meal
TRAD arr Grenon: Scottish Reel
O'Connell: Christmas in Kinsale
COEN: Christmas Eve Reel
TRAD: Gloucestershire Wassail
TRAD: Please to See the King
TRAD: The Wren Song
TRAD: Ok Skennen'kowa
Meredith Hall, Donna Kanerahtenha:wi Jacobs (sopranos), La Nef: Sylvain Bergeron (director, archlute, Baroque guitar), Alex Kehler (violin (trad.), nyckelharpa), Robin Grenon (harps), Grégoire Jeay (recorders, traverso flute), Marie-Laurence Primeau (viola da gamba), Andrew Wells-Oberegger (percussion)
Church of La Visitation-du-Sault-au-Récollet, Montreal (CBC Espace Musique)
Vaughan Williams: Folk Songs of the Four Seasons
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Folk Songs of the Four Seasons: Prologue, Early in the Spring, The Lark in the Morning, May Song, Summer Is A-Coming In, The Spring of Thyme, The Sheep Shearing, Green Meadow, John Barleycom, The Unquiet Grave, An Acre of Land, Children's Christmas Song, Wassail Song, In Bethlehem City, God Bless the Master
WDR Children's Choir, WDR Radio Orchestra, Cologne/Enrico Delamboye
Klaus von Bismarck Hall, WDR Broadcasting House, Cologne (EBU/WDR)
PROKOFIEV: A Summer Day - Scottish CO/José Serebrier (ASV CDQS 6114)
10:00 PM. Day's End

RNZ Concert's musical nightcap
MENDELSSOHN: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Suite - London SO/Barry Wordsworth (Virgin 3 91372)
WEBERN: Im Sommerwind - Royal Concertgebouw Orch/Riccardo Chailly (Decca 430 324)
ODERMATT: Summer, from Three Images Op 18 - Albrecht Mayer (ob), ASMF/Mathias Mönius (Decca 478 2564)
ESTACIO: Summer Nocturne, from A Farmer's Symphony - Edmonton SO/Mario Bernardi (CBC Records SMCD5232)
11.00
STENHAMMAR: Late Summer Nights - Martin Sturfält (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67689)
DELIUS: Summer Night on the River - Symphony Nova Scotia/Georg Tintner (CBC Records SMCD 5134)
MOZART: Clarinet Quintet in A K581 - Paul Dean (cl), Grainger Quartet (MELBA MR 301 122)