Sunday 23 January 2011 Rātapu 23 Kohi-tātea 2011

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  Disc 1

  MOZART: Symphonies, No 34 in C K338; No 35 in D K385; No 39 in Eb K543 - London Mozart Players/Jane Glover (ASV CD DCA 615)

  1:15 approx - Disc 2

  SUK: Suite Op 21; Spring Op 22a; Summer Moods Op 22b; About Mother Op 28 - Pavel Stepán (pno) (Supraphon SU 3820)

  2:20 approx - Disc 3

  BEETHOVEN: Adelaïde; BRAHMS: Wie Melodien; Alte Liebe; Alte die Nachtigall; Feldeinsamkeit; Immer leiser wird mein Schlummer; STRAUSS: Befreit; Nichts; Die Nacht; Heimliche Aufforderung; TCHAIKOVSKY: Blagoslavlyayu vas, lesa; Sleza drazht f tvajom rivnivom vzore; Net, tol'ka tot, kto znal; Serenada Don Zhuana; MORAWETZ: The Chimney-Sweeper; Mad Song; Grenadier; DUPARC: Phidylé; L'invitation au voyage; Le manoir de Rosamonde; Chanson triste - Mark Pedrotti (bar), Stephen Ralls (pno) (CBC MVCD 1051)

  3:30 approx - Disc 4

  TRAD arr Nunns/Bailey: In one breath; Wooden man; Late summer; Not reconciled; The other door; Returning; Play; Silence; The bells; Twilight; Reflections II - Richard Nunns (traditional Māori instruments), Judy Bailey (pno) (Rattle RAT DO11)

  4:45 approx - Disc 5

  HANDEL: Violin Sonatas, in D Op 1/13; in F Op 1/12; in D minor; in A Op 1/3; in G minor Op 1/6; in A Op 1/10; in E Op 1/12; in G; in A minor; in C minor - Andrew Manze (vln), Richard Egarr (hpschd) (Harmonia Mundi HMX 290 7259)

• 6:00 AM. Sanctuary

  SILVESTROV: Diptychon - Latvian Radio Choir/Sigvards Klava (GB Records BCGBCD 07)

  NYSTEDT: Variations on With Jesus will I walk Op 4 - Iain Quinn (organ of Coventry Cathedral) (Chandos CHAN 10581)

  PERGOLESI: Mass in F - Concerto Italiano/Rinaldo Alessandrini (Naïve OP 30461)

  MENDELSSOHN: St Paul Op 36, Part 1, excerpts - Maria Cristina Kiehr (sop), Werner Güra (ten), Michael Volle (bass), Stuttgart Chamber Choir, Bremen German Chamber Phil/Frieder Bernius (Carus 83.214)

• 8:00 AM. Grace Notes

  TRAD arr Hope: The lark in the clear air - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland (ASV White Line CD WHL 2155)

  DELIUS arr Fenby: Serenade, from Hassan - Julian Lloyd Webber (cello), National Phil/Charles Gerhardt (RCA 74321 84112)

  ALLEGRI ed Willcocks: Miserere mei, Deus - Roy Goodman (treble), Choir of King's College, Cambridge/David Willcocks (Decca 448 995)

  LISZT: Au lac de Wallenstadt, from Années de Pèlerinage, Year 1, Switzerland - Nicholas Angelich (pno) (Mirare MIR 9941)

  VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: 49th Parallel, Prelude - Northern Sinfonia of England/Richard Hickox (EMI CDC 7 49770)

  ELGAR: Carissima - Marat Bisengaliev (vln), Benjamin Frith (pno) (Black Box BBM 1016)

  ANON arr Vartabed/orch Shoujounian: You are a profound mystery - Isabel Bayrakdarian (sop), Elmer Iseler CO/Raffi Armenian (CBC SMCD 5215)

  GLUCK: Dance of the Blessed Spirits, from Orpheus & Euridice - Karlheinz Zoeller (fl), Berlin Phil/Herbert von Karajan (DG 419 406)

  PACHELBEL: Canon in D - NZSO CO/Donald Armstrong (dir) (RNZ)

• 9:00 AM. The Works

  WAGNER: Prelude & Liebestod, from Tristan & Isolde - Netherlands Phil/Yakov Kreizberg (PentaTone PTC 5186 041)

  BEETHOVEN: String Quartet in F Op 18/1 - Artemis Quartet (Virgin 6 28659)

  MOZART: Violin Concerto No 4 in D K218 - Andrew Manze (vln), English Concert (Harmonia Mundi HMU 80 7385)

  FRANCK: Symphony in D minor Op 48 - Bavarian Radio SO/Kyrill Kondrashin (BR Media 900 704)

• 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

  (12) Pamela Mia Paul (pno), DaPonte String Quartet

  BRAHMS: Piano Quartets, No 1 in G minor Op 25; No 3 in C minor Op 60, excerpt (Keystone Productions)

• Noon Alte Musik

  Ten programmes

  (6) CD Masters: Schola Cantorum Basiliensis - we take a look at this early music institute which was founded in 1933 in Basel via recordings of some of its stellar past pupils.

  PURCELL: In nomine in G minor; Fantasia in D minor - Schola Cantorum Basiliensis/August Wenzinger (vla da gamba/dir) (Archiv 447 156)

  MONTEVERDI: Tu sei morta, from Orfeo, Act 2 - Max Meili (ten), Berlin CO/Helmut Koch (Berlin Classics 0033142 BC)

  HANDEL: Allegro, La Réjouissance; Allegro; Lentement, from Water Music Suite in F - Schola Cantorum Basiliensis/August Wenzinger (DG 427 205)

  BACH: Opening aria, from Cantata No 170, Contented rest, the soul's beloved joy - René Jacobs (countertenor), Linde Consort/Hans-Martin Linde (Virgin 3 63281)

  RORE: Angelus ad pastores, Passeggiato on Bovicelli's motet - Bruce Dickey (cornett), Tragicomedia (Accent ACC 9173 D)

  CALDARA: Airs, In lagrime stemprato; La ragione; Così sciolta da' lacci de' suoi error, from Maddalena ai piedi di Cristo - Maria Cristina Kiehr (sop), Bernarda Fink (contralto), Andreas Scholl (countertenor), Schola Cantorum Basiliensis Orch/René Jacobs (Harmonia Mundi HMX 290 8009)

• 1:00 PM. Vintage Years

  Vintage Schubert

  Violin Sonata in A D574 - Fritz Kreisler (vln), Sergei Rachmaninov (pno) (rec 1928) (RCA 09026 68449)

  Symphony No 1 in D D82 - Royal Phil/Thomas Beecham (rec 1953) (Sony SMK 87876)

  Der Hirt auf dem Felsen D965 - Isobel Baillie (sop), Charles Draper (cl), G Ison (pno) (rec 1928) (Dutton Laboratories CDLX 7013)

• 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

  (4) Bin Ends

  A final trip to the cellar uncovers hidden gems including Alec Templeton's trip to town with Bach, a Galop with Shostakovich and a breath of fresh air for the Barber of Seville (RNZ)

• 3:00 PM. Opera on Sunday

  Metropolitan Opera Season

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

  (4) PUCCINI: La Fanciulla del West, an opera in three acts

  It's just over 100 years since the Metropolitan Opera premièred La Fanciulla del West (10 December 1910). Based on David Belasco's play The Girl of the Golden West, the spaghetti western tells the tale of Minnie, an independent frontier woman who runs an inn in a community of roughneck miners. She falls in love with a bandit, Dick Johnson, and it is this love that finally saves Johnson from execution

  Minnie........................... Deborah Voigt

  Dick Johnson................ Marcello Giordani

  Jack Rance................... Lucio Gallo

  Nick............................. Tony Stevenson

  Ashby........................... Keith Miller

  Sonora.......................... Dwayne Croft

  Trin............................... Hugo Vera

  Sid................................ Trevor Scheunemann

  Handsome..................... Richard Bernstein

  Harry............................ Adam Laurence Herskowitz

  Joe................................ Michael Forest

  Happy........................... David Crawford

  Jim Larkins.................... Edward Parks

  Billy Jackrabbit.............. Philip Cokorinos

  Wowkle........................ Ginger Costa-Jackson

  Jake Wallace................. Oren Gradus

  Pony Express rider........ Edward Mout

  Metropolitan Opera Chorus & Orch/Nicola Luisotti (EBU)

• 6:40 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ musicians and composers

  HILL arr Vidulich: Viola Concerto 1910 - Donald Maurice (vla), Massey CO (Hill Records 002)

• 7:00 PM. The Canterbury Scene

  Britain's lost progressive rock music

  Six programmes

  (3) Prog Rock Messiahs, Daevid Allen, Kevin Ayers and Robert Wyatt

  These three greats of 70's progressive rock had intertwining paths through their association in Soft Machine and the Canterbury Scene. Thomas Goss charts their solo careers and influence on British music (RNZ)

• 8:00 PM. Young New Zealand

  The Big Sing 2010

  Nine programmes

  (4) Euphony (Kristin School), Macleans College Choir (Macleans College), Saints Alive (St Cuthbert's College), Femme (Southland Girls' High School, Invercargill)

  GARKAVI: Kyrie; KING JOHN IV OF PORTUGAL: Crux Fidelis; BRITTEN: Benedictus & Agnus Dei, from Missa Brevis; MERRILL arr Billingsley: Mambo Italiano; LEWIS: Benedictus; COLEMAN/FIELDS arr Barnes: The rhythm of life (recorded in the Auckland Town Hall by RNZ)

• 8:25 PM. Anton Bruckner

  Intermezzo in D minor for string quintet - Leipzig String Quartet, Harmut Rohde (vla) (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 307 1362)

  Symphony No 8 in C minor - Dresden State Opera Orch/Christian Thielemann (Profil PH 10031)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  SCHUMANN: Six Studies in Canonic Form Op 56 - Olivier Vernet (organ of St Michael's Church, Wisches, Alsace, France) (Ligia LIDI 010 422-10)

  KREUTZER: Violin Concerto No 17 in G - Axel Strauss (vln), San Francisco Conservatory Orch/Andrew Mogrelia (Naxos 8.570380)

  MILHAUD: Le Boeuf sur le toit - French National Orch/Leonard Bernstein (EMI CDC 7 47845)

  11:00 DEBUSSY: Piano Trio in G - Florestan Trio (Hyperion CDA 67114)

  RAVEL: String Quartet in F - Medici String Quartet (Koch Classics 3-6436)

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