Upbeat for Wednesday 1 April 2015

12:15 Gary Ekkel

Australian choral director leading Affetto in a performance of Monteverdi's Vespers

12:40 Rochelle Bright

Playwright previews the Bullet Heart Club season of Daffodils

1pm Tom Rainey & Liam Ryan

Organists preview their Killer B3 Hammond Organ Summit at the Tauranga National Jazz Festival

Music played in this show

WAGNER: Introduction to Act 3, from Tannhäuser
Berlin Radio SO / Marek Janowski
Pentatone PTC 5186 405

MONTEVERDI: Magnificat, and Laetatus sum, from Vespers of 1610
Pietro Spagnoli (bar), Roberto Abondanza (bar), Daniele Carnovich (bass), La Capella Reial de Catalunya, Montserrat Figueras, Maria Cristina Kiehr (sops), Livio Picotti, Paolo Costa (countertenors), Guy de Mey, Gian Paolo Fagatto, Gerd Turk (tens) / Jordi Savall
Alia Vox AVSA 9855

KNOX: Not Given Lightly
Chris Knox
SONY 505495

DOBBYN/MORRIS/URLICH: Bliss
Th'Dudes
FESTIVAL  314842

CROPPER/JONES/DUNN/JACKSON: Green Onions
Booker T. & the MG's
ATLANTIC 279726

BEETHOVEN: Symphony No 5 in C minor Op 67
Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique / John Eliot Gardiner
Soli Deo Gloria SDG 717