Upbeat for Thursday 3 July 2014 Upbeat

12:15 Geoffrey Snedden & Neville Brown

Earthquake Resilience project managers for the Wellington Town Hall walk Eva through the building and its structural issues

Wellington Town Hall
Photo: RNZ

12:40 Simon Romanos

Upbeat contributor on the world's great performers

1pm Maxim Rysanov

Featured viola soloist for tonight's Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra concert

BIZET: Habanera, from Carmen
Magdalena Kozená (mezzo), Berlin State Opera Chorus and Orchestra/Simon Rattle
EMI 4 40285
4'19"

WYNTON MARSALIS: String Quartet No 1 'At the Octoroon Balls'
Harlem Quartet
White Pine WPM 207
4'08"

LOPEZ-GAVILÁN: Mi Menor Conga (My Little Conga)
Harlem Quartet
White Pine WPM 207
2'55"

ELLINGTON arr CHIHARA: I'm Beginning to See the Light
STRAYHORN: Take the A Train
Harlem Quartet
Albarn Troy 1290
5'25"

MOZART: Larghetto from Clarinet Quintet in A
Sabine Meyer (cl), members of the Vienna String Sextet
EMI 2 15305
6'30"

TCHAIKOVSKY arr RYSANOV: Variations on a Rococo Theme Op 33
Maxim Rysanov (vla), Swedish CO/Muhai Tang
BIS SACD 1843
2'56"

BRAHMS: Trio in Eb for horn/viola, violin and piano Op 40
Maxim Rysanov (vla), Boris Brovtsyn (vln), Katya Apekisheva (pno)
Onyx 4033
2'33"

TABAKOVA: The rose garden by moonlight, from Suite in Old Style
Maxim Rysanov (vla/dir), Lithuanian CO
ECM 2239
3'23"

Upbeat for Thursday 3 July 2014