Upbeat for Wednesday 19 June 2013 Upbeat

Rosario la Spina - Australian Tenor

1:08 PM.Australian Tenor singing Verdi's Requiem with New Zealand Symphony Orchestra around the country. Audio
Rolf Gjelsten and Ross Harris - NZSQ

12:45 PM.NZ String Quartet cellist and NZ composer on this weekend's performance of Ross's String Quartet No 5 on behalf of Wellington Chamber Music. Audio
Peter Shaw - Franz-Paul Decker

12:15 PM.Peter looks at German conductor Franz-Paul Decker's work with the NZSO ahead of his 90th birthday next week. Audio

12:15 Peter Shaw on Franz-Paul Decker

Radio New Zealand Concert contributor celebrates the conductor's 90th birthday

Franz Paul Decker

12:40 Rolf Gjelsten and Ross Harris

New Zealand String Quartet cellist previews their upcoming engagements with a composer featured in their Wellington Chamber Music Society concert

1pm Rosario La Spina

Australian tenor performing Verdi's Requiem with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra

BRITTEN: Four Sea Interludes, from Peter Grimes
BBC Phil Edward Gardner
Chandos CHAN 10658

STRAUSS: Also Sprach Zarathustra
NZSO / Franz Paul Decker
RNZ 15 June 1996

MAHLER: 2nd Movement from Symphony No 3
NZSO / Franz Paul Decker
RNZ 26 June 1996

BEETHOVEN: Symphony No 3 in E flat Op 55, Eroica
NZSO / Franz Paul Decker
RNZ 21 August 1999

HARRIS: Songs from Childhood
New Zealand String Quartet
RNZ Rec. 06/02/2013

BRAHMS: String Quartet No. 2 in A minor, Op 51
New Zealand String Quartet
RNZ Rec. 26/05/2003

J STAMITZ: Symphony in D Op 3/2
NZSO CO / Donald Armstrong (dir)
Naxos 8.553194

Upbeat for Wednesday 19 June 2013