Upbeat for Wednesday 25 February 2015

12:15 Barbara Graham & Alison Hodge

Star soprano and director of Boutique Opera's Maids Behaving Badly: A Pergolesi double bill

12:40 Musical Dynasties

Lynn Freeman continues her series on New Zealand's notable musical families with the Neilsons

1pm Gergely Madaras

Hungarian conductor working with the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra this week

Music played in this show

LIEBERSON: Amor, Amor, las nubes a la torre del cielo, from Neruda Songs
Lorraine Hunt Lieberson (mezzo), Boston SO / James Levine
Nonesuch 79954

PERGOLESI: Livietta and Tracollo
Nancy Argenta (sop), Donato di Stefano (bass), Petite Band / Sigiswald Kuijken
Accent 96123

PERGOLESI: La serva padrona
Katalin Farkas (sop), József Gregor (bass), Capella Savaria / Pál Németh
Hungaroton HCD 12846

LIGETI: Melodien
Schönberg Ensemble / Reinbert de Leeuw
Teldec 8573 83953

FRANCK: Prelude, Chorale and Fugue
Kathryn Stott (pno)
RNZ Rec.03/02/2015

SIBELIUS: Symphony No 1 in E minor Op 39, Scherzo
Hallé Orch / Mark Elder
Hallé CD HLL 7514

BORNE: Fantasie Brillante on Bizet's Carmen
Emmanuel Pahud (fl), Rotterdam Phil / Yannick Nézet-Séguin
EMI 4 57814