Schedule for Sunday 2 August 2009

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12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

12:00 - Disc 1
SCHUBERT: Symphony No 8 in B minor, Unfinished; BEETHOVEN: Symphony No 3 in Eb, Eroica - BBC Phil/Stephen Kovacevich, Gunther Herbig (BBC Music MM 136)
1:10 (approx) - Disc 2
SMYTH: String Quartet in E minor; String Quintet in E Op 1 - Mannheim String Quartet, Joachim Griesheimer (cello) (CPO 999 352)
2:20 (approx) - Disc 3
MUSSORGSKY: Songs & Dances of Death; The Nursery; The Puppet-Show; The Seminarist; Darling Savishna; The He-Goat, A Wordly Story; Song of the Flea - Sergei Leiferkus (bar), Semion Skigin (pno) (Conifer 75605 51229)
3:35 (approx) - Disc 4
G GABRIELLI: Canzona noni toni; CORELLI: Concerto Grosso in G minor Op 6/8; GEMINIANI: Concerto Grosso in E minor Op 3/3; MANFREDINI: Concerto in G minor Op 3/10; ALBINONI: Concerto in A minor Op 5/5; TORELLI: Concerto musicale in D minor Op 6/10; LOCATELLI: Concerto Grosso in D Op 1/9; CORELLI: Concerto Grosso in D Op 6/7 - ASMF/Neville Marriner (Decca 436 224)
4:45 (approx) - Disc 5
GINASTERA: Piezas Infantiles; Milonga, from Dos Canciones Op 3; Tres Piezas Op 6; Malambo Op 7; Suite de Criollas Op 15; Rondo Sobre Temas Infantiles Argentinos Op 19; Piano Sonata No 2 Op 53; Toccata; Piano Sonata No 3 Op 55 - Alberto Portugheis (pno) (ASV CD DCA 880)
6:00 AM. Sanctuary

BESSER: Predawn Meditation - New Zealand SO/Derrick Inouye (RNZ)
MAGALHAES: Vidi aquam - Ars Nova/Bo Holten (Naxos 8.553310)
ANON: Salterello; SILVA: O virgo benedicta; VICTORIA: O decus apostolicum; GOMBERT: Virgo Sancta Katherina - Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet (Oiseau-Lyre 444 537)
IPPOLITOV-IVANOV: Liturgy of St John Chrysostom - Chamber Choir Lege Artis/Boris Abalyan (Sony SMK 64091)
GRIGNY: Ave maris stella - Schola Gregoriana of the Rottenburg Academy for Church Music/Bernhard Schmid, Bernhard Marx (organ of St Blaise' Cathedral, Black Forest, Germany) (Ars Musici 232 260)
BACH: Cantata No 178, written for the 8th Sunday after Trinity, If God the Lord is not with us - Matthew White (countertenor), Makoto Sakurada (ten), Peter Kooy (bass), Bach Collegium Japan/Masaaki Suzuki (dir) (BIS CD 1331)
MACKENZIE: Benedictus, from Six Pieces for Violin Op 37 - BBC Scottish SO/Martyn Brabbins (Hyperion CDA 66764)
ELGAR: Give unto the Lord Op 74 - Choir of St John's College, Cambridge/Christopher Robinson, Jonathan Vaughn (org) (Naxos 8.557288)
8:00 AM. Grace Notes

WAGNER: Tristan & Isolde, Prelude - Royal Opera House Orch, Covent Garden/Mark Elder (Sony SK 62032)
CANTELOUBE: Baïlèro, from Songs of the Auvergne - Kiri Te Kanawa (sop), English SO/Jeffrey Tate (Decca 475 459)
SATIE: Gymnopédies - Philippe Entremont (pno) (CBS MYK 45505)
FAURÉ: Pavane - New Zealand SO/James Sedares (Universal 99072)
PREISNER: Love, from Requiem for my friend - Dorota Slezak (vocalist), Jerzy Glowczewski (sax), Warsaw Sinfonia/Jacek Kaspszyk (Erato 3984 24146)
TRAD arr Meyer: Star of the County Down - Mark O'Connor (vln), Yo-Yo Ma (cello), Edgar Meyer (dbass) (Sony SK 68460)
ROSSINI: Dal tuo stellato soglio, from Moses in Egypt - Pauline Tinsley (sop), Elizabeth Shelley (mezzo), David Hughes (ten), Robert Lloyd (bass), Chorus & Orch of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden/Lamberto Gardelli (EMI CDM 7 69054)
9:00 AM. Composers of the Week

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Romeo & Juliet settings
Robbie Ellis presents a talk on various composers who have been inspired by the Bard's tragic love story (R Mon 7.00pm) (RNZ)
BERLIOZ: Love scene; Queen Mab Scherzo, from Romeo & Juliet Op 17 - London SO/Colin Davis (Philips 438 307)
10:00 AM. Chamber Music at Lincoln Center

Twenty-six programmes hosted by Elliott Forrest, with commentary by the Chamber Music Society's Artistic Director, David Finckel, recorded in New York City
(20) Germanic Tradition
BEETHOVEN: Variations in Eb Op 44 - André-Michel Schub (pno), Cho-Liang Lin (vln), Gary Hoffman (cello)
SCHUBERT: String Quartet in C minor D103, Quartettsatz - Yoon Kwon, Lily Francis (vlns), Beth Guterman (vla), Julie Albers (cello)
MOZART: Piano Quartet No 2 in Eb K493 - Menahem Pressler (pno), Erin Keefe (vln), Beth Guterman (vla), Gary Hoffman (cello) (WFMT)
11:00 AM. The Works

CRUSELL: Clarinet Concerto No 3 in Bb Op 11 - Martin Fröst (cl), Gothenburg SO/Okko Kamu (BIS SACD 1723)
MOSCHELES: Symphony in C Op 81 - Brandenburg State Orch/Nikos Athinäos (Christophorus CHE 0135)
Noon Pressing On

With Robert Johnson (R Fri 7.00pm) (RNZ)
1:00 PM. Vintage Years

DELIBES: Sylvia, Suite - Paris Conservatoire Orch/Roger Désormière (rec 1950) (Testament SBT 1294)
TCHAIKOVSKY: Piano Sonata in G Op 37 - Sviatoslav Richter (pno) (rec 1954) (Ankh 200 701)
2:00 PM. The Sunday Feature

Hymns for the People
Allan Thomas looks at the role that hymns have played in society, in history and as inspiration to composers
Twelve programmes
(9) Celebration (RNZ)
LISZT: Hymne à Sainte Cécile, transcription of a trio for violin, harp & organ by Gounod - Jeffrey Grice (pno) (Integral INT 221 116)
DIEPENBROCK: Hymn for violin & orchestra - Emmy Verhey (vln), Residentie Orch, The Hague/Hans Vonk (Chandos CHAN 8821)
3:00 PM. Opera on Sunday

Euroradio Opera Season
A selection of live operatic performances recorded by some of the world's major public broadcasters
RESPIGHI: Marie Victoire, an opera in four acts
Marie de Lanjallay.................. Takesha Meshé Kizart
Maurice de Lanjallay............... Markus Brück
Clorivière................................ German Villar
Cloteau/du Fulgoet.................. Stephen Bronk
Kermarec............................... Jörn Schümann
Simon..................................... Simon Pauly
Lison Fleuriot.......................... Martina Welschenbach
Caracalla................................ Gregory Warren
La Marquise de Langlade........ Nicole Piccolomini
Le Marquis de Langlade......... Yosep Kang
La Novice.............................. Anna Fleischer
L'Abbé.................................. Thomas Bondelle
Le Mouton............................. Andrew Ashwin
Le Commissaire...................... Hyung-Wook Lee
Le Marquis de Grandchamp.... Krzysztof Szumanski
Le Vicomte............................. Nathan Myers
Le Chevalier........................... Tomislav Lucic
German Opera Chorus & Orch/Michail Jurowski (Berlin Radio)
6:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

NZ musicians and composers
HUMMEL: Etudes Op 125 - John Khouri (fpno) (Music & Arts CD 1165)
BODY: Three Transcriptions - New Zealand String Quartet (Rattle RAT D009)
7:00 PM. New Horizons

Ten programmes
(7) William Dart reviews albums by Elvis Costello and Aimee Mann (RNZ)
8:00 PM. Young New Zealand

NZSO/Todd Young Composer Awards 2008
In a two day workshop eleven New Zealand composers under the age of 25 have their works performed by the New Zealand SO and talk about those works with Radio New Zealand's Rebecca Blundell
Two programmes
(1) PIETA HEXTALL: Impetus; ROBIN TOAN: Aquarium and Puppets; LIZZIE DOBSON: Ricercare di Vita; RYAN YOUENS: Somnium; UMAR ZAKARIA: Dreams of Power; ALEXANDRA HAY: Bellum Nocturnis (recorded in the Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington by RNZ)
9:05 PM. Van Cliburn

RACHMANINOV: Preludes, in C# minor Op 3/2; in G Op 32/5, in G# minor Op 32/12 - Van Cliburn (pno) (Philips 456 748)
CHOPIN: Piano Concerto No 1 in E minor Op 11 - Van Cliburn (pno), Philadelphia Orch/Eugene Ormandy (RCA Victor 7945-2-RG)
10:00 PM. Day's End

BRITTEN: Simple Symphony Op 4 - Lucerne Festival Strings/Achim Fiedler (Oehms OC 723)
VIVALDI: Cello Concerto in A minor RV419 - Roel Dieltiens (cello/dir), Ensemble Explorations (Harmonia Mundi HML 590 8235.36)
TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No 2 in C minor Op 17, Little Russian - Philharmonia/Carlo Maria Giulini (EMI 7 67723)
11:00 COLERIDGE-TAYLOR: Quintet in A - Harold Wright (cl), Hawthorne String Quartet (Koch International 3-7056)
HAYDN: String Quartet in C Op 54/2 - Buchberger Quartet (Brilliant Classics 93871)