Sunday 9 January 2011 Rātapu 9 Kohi-tātea 2011

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  Disc 1

  TUBIN: Symphony No 1 in C minor; Concerto for Balalaika & Orchestra; Music for Strings - Swedish Radio Orch/Neeme Järvi (BIS CD 351)

  1:15 approx - Disc 2

  BEETHOVEN: Piano Concertos, No 1 in C Op 15; No 2 in Bb Op 19 - Diedre Irons (pno), Christchurch Symphony/Marc Taddei (Trust MMT 2050)

  2:30 approx - Disc 3

  DVORÁK: Mass in D Op 86; Te Deum Op 103 - Marina Meshcheriakova (sop), Sergei Miasnikov (bass), Russian State Cappella & SO/Valery Polyansky (Chandos CHAN 9505)

  3:35 approx - Disc 4

  RAVEL: Gaspard de la nuit; Menuet antique; Menuet sur le nom de Haydn; A la maniére…Borodin; A la maniére…Chabrier; Prélude; Miroirs; Sonatine - Louis Lortie (pno) (Chandos CHAN 8647)

  4:45 approx - Disc 5

  ELGAR: Cockaigne Overture Op 40; Introduction & Allegro for Strings Op 47; Serenade for Strings Op 20; Enigma Variations Op 36 - BBC SO/Andrew Davis (Teldec 9031 73279)

• 6:00 AM. Sanctuary

  G JACKSON: To morning - Polyphony/Stephen Layton (Hyperion CDA 67708)

  TRAD: Mass for the Feast of the Epiphany, with organ excerpts from L'Orgue Mystique by Charles Tournemire - Schola Gregoriana Monacensis/Johannes Berchmans Göschl, Harald Feller (organ of St Mary's Cathedral, Munich) (Ars Musici 232 369)

  MENDELSSOHN: Psalm 42, As the hart panteth after the water brooks - Anna Korondi (sop), RIAS Chamber Choir, Champs-Elysées Orch/Philippe Herreweghe (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1786)

  MISKINIS: Ave Maria (second setting); Salve Regina; Ave Maria (third setting); Time is endless - Choir of Royal Holloway/Rupert Gough (Hyperion CDA 67818)

  BACH: Cantata No 124 written for the 1st Sunday after the Epiphany, I will not leave my Jesus - Yukari Nonoshita (sop), Robin Blaze (countertenor), Andreas Weller (ten), Peter Kooy (bass), Bach Collegium Japan/Masaaki Suzuki (dir) (BIS SACD 1501)

  BEVAN: Magnificat; C WOOD: Nunc Dimittis in Bb; BAKER: Marche des Rois mages - Choir of Westminster Cathedral/Martin Baker, Matthew Martin, Martin Baker (organs) (Hyperion CDA 67707)

• 8:00 AM. Grace Notes

  ELGAR: Elegy Op 58 - New Philharmonia/John Barbirolli (EMI CDC 7 47537)

  PUCCINI: Nessun dorma, from Turandot - Luciano Pavarotti (ten), John Alldis Choir, London Phil/Zubin Mehta (Decca 444 555)

  MYERS arr Williams: Cavatina, from The Deer Hunter - John Couch (gtr) (John Couch JB 1001)

  BACH: Second movement, Adagio, from Keyboard Concerto No 1 in D minor BWV1052 - Murray Perahia (pno/dir), ASMF (Sony SK 89245)

  GIBBONS: The silver swan - Hilliard Ensemble/Paul Hillier (dir) (EMI CDC 7 49197)

  MASCAGNI: Cavalleria Rusticana, Intermezzo - New Zealand SO/James Sedares (Universal 399 8782)

  SAINT-SAËNS: The nightingale & the rose - Rita Streich (sop), Berlin Radio SO/Kurt Gaebel (DG 457 729)

  SCHUMANN: Arabeske in C Op 18 - Jeffrey Grice (pno) (Calliope CAL 9207)

  RESPIGHI: Pastorale in A after a Tartini Violin Sonata - Michael Erxleben (vln/dir), New Berlin CO (Capriccio 10 563)

• 9:00 AM. The Works

  SIBELIUS: Karelia Suite - Philharmonia/Vladimir Ashkenazy (Decca 417 762)

  KRUMPHOLZ: Harp Concerto No 6 - Lily Laskine (harp), Jean-François Paillard CO/Jean-François Paillard (Erato 2292 45084)

  DVORÁK: Piano Quintet in A Op 81 - Clifford Curzon (pno), Vienna Philharmonic Quartet (Decca 421 153)

  GLAZUNOV: Symphony No 6 in C minor Op 58 - Royal Scottish National Orch/José Serebrier (Warner Classics 2564 69627)

• 11:00 AM. Music Mountain

  Performances recorded at the 2010 season of the Music Mountain Chamber Music Festival in Falls Village, Connecticut

  Twenty-six programmes

  (10) Amernet String Quartet, Chauncey Patterson (vla)

  MOZART: String Quintets, No 4 in G minor K516; No 2 in C minor K406 (Keystone Productions)

• Noon Alte Musik

  Ten programmes

  (4) Rossini's Memory of Youth - excerpts from L'Album pour les enfants adolescents played on a 1858 Pleyel

  Première Communion; Thème naïf et variations idem...; Saltarello à l'italienne; La Lagune de Venise à l'expiration de l'année; Valse lugubre; Impromptu anodin; L'innocence italienne, La candeur française; Ouf! Les petits pois; Un sauté; Prélude convulsif - Paolo Giacometti (pno) (Channel Classics CCS 12398)

• 1:05 PM. Vintage Years

  HAYDN: Cello Concerto No 1 in C HobVIIb/1 - Mstislav Rostropovich (cello/dir), London SO (rec 1965) (BBC BBCL 4198)

  SCHUMANN: Piano Trio No 1 in D minor Op 63 - Emil Gilels (pno), Leonid Kogan (vln), Mstislav Rostropovich (cello) (rec 1958) (DG 477 7476)

• 2:00 PM. The Sunday Feature

  Old Wine in New Bottles

  Four programmes in which Brian Kay savours old music which has been renewed or reinvented

  (2) Variations on a Theme

  The masters weave complex new fabrics from the threads of simple themes, including Brahms on Paganini, Françaix on Haydn and Britten on Purcell (RNZ)

• 3:00 PM. Opera on Sunday

  Metropolitan Opera Season

  Twenty-two operas from New York's Metropolitan Opera House

  (2) SMETANA: The Bartered Bride, an opera in three acts

  The peasant Krusina, gave his daughter, Marenka, in marriage, as collateral for a loan that was made before she was born. But she is in love with another …

  Krusina......................... Derek Hammond Stroud

  Ludmila......................... Elizabeth Cross

  Marenka....................... Teresa Stratas

  Háta.............................. Jean Kraft

  Vasek........................... Jon Vickers

  Jeník............................. Nicolai Gedda

  Kecal............................ Martti Talvela

  Tobias........................... John Cheek

  Circus Barker................ Alan Crofoot

  Esmeralda..................... Colette Boky

  Indian............................ Andrij Dobriansky

  Metropolitan Opera Chorus & Orch/James Levine (archive broadcast from December 2, 1978) (EBU)

• 6:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ musicians and composers

  BEETHOVEN: Egmont Overture Op 84 - New Zealand SO/James Judd (Naxos 8.557264)

  WELLS: Third Organ Suite - John Wells (organ of Holy Trinity Cathedral, Auckland) (Ribbonwood RCD 1009)

  HILL: String Quartet No 1 in Bb, Maori - Dominion Quartet (Naxos 8.570491)

• 7:00 PM. The Canterbury Scene

  Britain's lost progressive rock music

  Six programmes

  (1) Canterbury Roots - Children of the Wilde Flowers

  Thomas Goss introduces the many bands of the British progressive rock genre known as The Canterbury Scene, including Soft Machine, Caravan, Hatfield and the North, Gilgamesh, and National Health (RNZ)

• 8:00 PM. Young New Zealand

  The Big Sing 2010

  Nine programmes

  (2) Femme (Southland Girls' High School), Bella Voce (Marlborough Girls' College), Bel Canto (Burnside High School), Cantala (Wellington East Girls' College), Resolutions (Rangi Ruru Girls' High School), SOS (Rangitoto College)

  TRAD Xhosa arr Puddy: Dubula; SPEVACEK: Danza; PALESTRINA: Hodie Christus natus est; TRAD: E Kiwi E; LEEK: Goolay-yali; MANKEN: Under the Sea; TRAD Maori: Wairua tapu tau mai ra (recorded in the Auckland Town Hall by RNZ)

• 8:25 PM. Bruch & Bruckner

  BRUCH: Scottish Fantasy - Rachel Barton Pine (vln), Scottish CO/Alexander Platt (Cedille CDR 90000 083)

  BRUCKNER: Symphony No 2 in C minor - Swedish CO/Thomas Dausgaard (BIS SACD 1829)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  CHOPIN: Nocturnes Op 15 - Pascal Amoyel (pno) (Calliope CAL 9351.2)

  ROSSINI orch/arr Respighi: La Boutique fantasque - National Phil/Richard Bonynge (Decca 410 139)

  11:00 BAX: Piano Quintet in G minor - Ashley Wass (pno), Tippett Quartet (Naxos 8.572474)

  TANSMAN: Variations on a Theme of Scriabin - Irina Kulikova (gtr) (Naxos 8.572390)

Next day - Mon 10

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