Upbeat for Friday 10 May 2013 Upbeat

12:15 Anne O'Brien

Director of the Auckland Writers and Readers Festival

Anne O Brien

12:40 Michael Gudgeon and Sarah Gatzonis

Dancers preview the New Zealand School of Dance's Choreographic Season

1pm Hamish McKeich

Wellington Youth Orchestra conductor performing Shostakovich, Psathas and Rachmaninov this weekend

Hamish McKeich

MUSIC ON TODAY'S PROGRAMME

WAGNER: Tannhäuser, Overture

Berlin Phil / Claudio Abbado

DG 474 377

MEEHAN/MANHIRE: The Hawk from album Making Baby Float

Norman Mehhan (pno) Hannah Griffin (voc)

RATTLE 140030

LEIBER/STOLLER: Down in Mexico

The Coasters

RHINO 276732

FAURE: Piano Trio in D minor Op 120

Florestan Trio

Hyperion CDA 67114

RACHMANINOV: Aleko, excerpts

Sydney Symphony / Vladimir Ashkenazy

Exton EXCL 00018

SHOSTAKOVICH: Symphony No 5 in D minor Op 47

Royal Liverpool Phil / Vasily Petrenko

Naxos 8.572167

Upbeat for Friday 10 May 2013