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Upbeat for Wednesday 11 June 2014

  • Kevin Kim: The Committee

    1:10 PM.Auckland based recorder player previews The Committee's New Music for Old Instruments workshop taking place at Ponsonby Baptist Church this Saturday. The workshop brings together seven new music… Read more Audio

  • Peter Walls: Richard Strauss

    12:47 PM.Peter looks back over the life of 20th century German composer Richard Strauss who was born on this day 150 years ago. Audio

  • Pietari Inkinen: Beethoven Symphonies

    12:17 PM.Music Director of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra previews the ensembles complete Beethoven Symphony cycle which begins this week in Wellington before repeating all nine symphonies in Auckland next… Read more Audio

12:15 Pietari Inkinen

New Zealand Symphony Orchestra Music Director talks about taking on Beethoven's Symphonies

12:40 Peter Walls

Presenter of this week's Composer of the Week on Richard Strauss, born 150 years ago today

1pm Kevin Kim

Recorder player previews The Committee's New Music for Old Instruments workshop

Kevin Kim

Music played in this show

MOZART: Venga pur, from Mitridate
Marie-Nicole Lemieux (contralto), Les Violons du Roy / Bernard Labadie
Naïve V 5264

BEETHOVEN: Symphony No 3 in Eb Op 55, Eroica
Stuttgart Radio SO / Roger Norrington
Hänssler CD 93.085

BEETHOVEN: Symphony No 9 in D minor Op 125, Choral
Simon O'Neill (ten), Jonathan Lemalu (bbar), Voices New Zealand Chamber Choir, Orpheus Choir of Wellington, New Zealand SO, Madeleine Pierard (sop), Sarah Castle (mezzo) / Pietari Inkinen
RNZ Rec.24/09/2011

BEETHOVEN: Symphony No 7 in A Op 92
Zurich Tonhalle Orch / David Zinman
Arte Nova 74321 56341

STRAUSS: Zerbinetta’s aria, from Ariadne auf Naxos
Kathleen Battle (sop), Vienna Phil / James Levine
DG 419 225

STRAUSS: Letter Scene, from Intermezzo
Felicity Lott (sop), Glyndebourne Festival Opera, LPO / Gustav Kuhn
ISBN: 978-0-7697-8726-8 (DVD)

STRAUSS: Salome, Finale
Eva Marton (sop), Berlin Phil/ Zubin Mehta
Sony S2K 46717

STRAUSS: Capriccio, Finale
Gundula Janowitz (sop), Bavarian Radio Orch/ Karl Böhm
DG 419 023

STRAUSS: Four Last Songs
Nina Stemme (sop), Royal Opera House, Covent Garden Orch / Antonio Pappano
EMI 3 78797

STRAUSS: Also sprach Zarathustra Op 30
Berlin Phil / Gustavo Dudamel
DG 479 1041

PUCCINI: Madama Butterfly
St Cecilia Academy Chorus & Orch, Rome / Antonio Pappano
EMI 2 64187

KIM: Piricer
Kevin Kim (recorder)
RNZ Rec.22/09/2013