Upbeat for Wednesday 28 August 2013

12:15 Lara Melda

Piano soloist for this year's NZSO National Youth Orchestra concerts

12:40 Gary Brain

Peter Mechen speaks to the New Zealand ex-pat conductor, who's just celebrated his 70th birthday

1pm Jayne Tankersley

Soprano performing the B minor Mass with Bach Musica on Sunday

Music played in this show

BIZET: Flower song, from Carmen
Plácido Domingo (ten), Los Angeles Phil / Carlo Maria Giulini
DG 415 366

BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No 3 in C minor Op 37
Ashley Wass (pno), BBC Phil / Vassily Sinaisky
BBC Music   BBC MM 221    

TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No 5 in E minor Op 64
London Phil  / Vladimir Jurowski
LPO 0064

MAREK: Suite for orchestra, Op. 25
Philharmonia Orchestra / Gary Brain
K&A KA 95055

BACH: Easter Oratorio BWV249, Seele, deine Spezereien
Graduate Choir, AK Barok, Timothy Noon (org), Jayne Tankersley (sop) / Terence Maskell
RNZ Rec.15/04/12

BACH: Mass in B minor BWV232, Kyrie
Christian Immler (countertenor), Michael Kilian (countertenor), Rogers Covey-Crump (ten), David Thomas (bass), Taverner Consort & Players / Andrew Parrott (dir)
EMI CDS 7 47293

BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata No. 23 in Fminor, Op. 57 "Appassionata"
Michael Houstoun (pno)
RNZ Rec. 26/08/2013