Upbeat for Thursday 13 February 2014

12:15 Gary Griffiths

Welsh baritone starring in Opera Hawes Bay's staging of The Marriage of Figaro

12:40 Anika Moa

New Zealand singer-songwriter speaks to Radio New Zealand National's Music 101 programme about her album Songs For Bubbas

1pm Tabitha Arthur and Ryan Smith

Director and musician preview their New Zealand Fringe show Traces: Ghosts from the Archives

And: be sure to watch producer Jeremy Brick's interview with dancer Luke Hanna

Music played in this show

TCHAIKOVSKY: String Quartet No 1 in D Op 11
Ying Quartet
Telarc 2CD 80685

MOZART: The Marriage of Figaro
Collegium Vocale Gent, Concerto Cologne / René Jacobs
Harmonia Mundi HMC 80 1818.20

BACH: Easter Oratorio BWV249, Sinfonia
New London Consort / Philip Pickett
L'Oiseau-Lyre 452 000

HAYDN: The Battle of the Nile HobXXVIb/4
Susanne Rydén (sop), Mark Tatlow (fpno)
Berlin Classics 0016182BC