Upbeat for Tuesday 10 December 2013

12:15 Kieran Rayner

Baritone soloist in the Bach Choir's performance of the Christmas Oratorio

12:40 Erica van Zon

Artist speaks about her new exhibition at City Gallery Wellington

Erica van Zon, work in progress, 2013. Photo: Caroline Atkinson

1pm Holly Mathieson

Ex-pat conductor speaks about her recent and upcoming experiences

Music played in this show

MESSIAEN: Les Offrandes oubliées
Lyon National Orch / Jun Märkl
Naxos 8.572174

BEETHOVEN: Missa Solemnis in D Op 123, Agnus Dei
Bianca Andrew (mezzo), Cameron Barclay (ten), Kieran Rayner (bar), Orpheus Choir of Wellington, Wellington Orch, Emma Fraser (sop) / Marc Taddei
RNZ  Rec.29/04/12

BACH: Christmas Oratorio
Nancy Argenta (sop), Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo), Hans Peter Blochwitz (ten), Olaf Bär (bar), Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, Anthony Rolfe Johnson (Evangelist) / John Eliot Gardiner
Archiv 423 232

HANDEL: All we like sheep have gone astray from Messiah
Catherine Wyn-Rogers (contralto), Mark Padmore (ten), Christopher Purves (bass), The Sixteen, Carolyn Sampson (sop) / Harry Christophers
Coro COR 16062

HAINES: Five Dimensions
Nathan Haines
HAVEN 702220