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Tuesday 24 November 2009

7:00

MOUNTFORT: les pommes; nervous doll dancing;
ascending; past; alice; papillon; cello; clockwork; nana; les pommes II
Francesca Mountfort (cello), Alice Hurwood (voc), Peter Murkusich (gtr), Nancy Haliburton (vln), John White (pno)
Aphelion

JANACEK: Goodnight, from On an overgrown path
Helene Couvert (pno)
Zigzag ZZT 080 902

HARVEY: … towards a Pure Land
BBC Scottish SO/Ilan Volkov
NMC D 141

7:30 NZTrio in concert

To mark the 125th anniversary of the University of Auckland in 2008, NZTrio performed a programme that celebrates the composing community of the university.

DE CASTRO-ROBINSON: At Water's Birth
HOLLOWAY: Stapes
ELMSLY: Postcards
MATTHEWS: Dance of the Fallen
GARDNER: blessed unrest
RIMMER: Burning the Calories
CLEMENT: shifting states
KELLY: Sono

(recorded in University of Auckland Music Theatre by RNZ)

9:00

ELLINGTON: The River
Detroit SO/Neeme Jarvi

9:30 Crippled Symmetries (1 of 2)

In the first of two programmes, James Gardner surveys the development of Morton FELDMAN's music from the 1940s to the 1960s including his intensely productive association with the so-called 'New York School' of composers.

The programme includes rarely-heard archive recordings of Feldman and John Cage as well as exclusive interviews with composer Christian Wolff and veteran Feldman interpreter John Tilbury (RNZC)

11:00 New Music Dreams

James MacMillan turned 50 in July 2009

MACMILLAN: Symphony 'Vigil'
Fine Arts Brass Ensemble, BBC Scottish SO/Osmo Vänskä
BIS CD 990