Upbeat for Wednesday 26 March 2014

12:15 Bruce McLean and Gordon Hookey

Curator and featured artist at Auckland Art Gallery's exhibtion My Country: Contemporary Art from Black Australia

12:40 William Green

Upbeat contributor looks back on guillotine-inspired music

1pm Yves Yersin

Swiss film-maker visiting the Alliance Française French Film Festival

Music played in this show

COROGLIANO: Once there was a golden bird from The Ghosts of Versailles
Renée Fleming (sop), Philharmonia / Sebastian Lang-Lessing
Decca 478 0125

GIORDANO: Andrea Chenier 
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra/Lovro von Matacic, Franco Corelli; Renata Tebaldi, Ettore Bastianini
Orfeo C 682 062 I

BERLIOZ: March to the scaffold from Symphonie Fantastique Op 14
NZSO/Victor Yampolsky  
Kiwi CD SLC 215 

POULENC: Les Dialogues des Carmelites
Lyon Opera Chorus & Orch / Kent Nagano
Virgin VC 7 59227

FRANCK: Prelude, Chorale & Fugue
Stephen Hough (pno)
Hyperion CDA 66918

BOULEZ: Sur Incises
Vincent Bauer (perc), Daniel Ciampolini (perc), Michel Cerutti (perc), (Soloists of the Ensemble Intercontemporain), Dimitri Vassilakis (pno), Hidéki Nagano (pno), Florent Boffard (pno), Frédérique Cambreling (harp), Sandrine Chatron (harp), Marianne Le Mentec (harp) / Pierre Boulez
DG 463 475

HONEGGER: Symphony No 3, Liturgique
New Zealand SO / Takuo Yuasa
Naxos 8.555974