Sunday 6 March 2011 Rātapu 6 Poutū-te-rangi 2011

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  Disc 1

  SCHUBERT: Symphony No 8 in B minor D759, Unfinished; Incidental music to Rosamunde D797 - Concertgebouw Orch/Bernard Haitink (Philips 420 715)

  1:05 approx - Disc 2

  HINDEMITH: Sonata; CAPLET: Divertissements; TAILLEFERRE: Sonata for harp; ÖZDIL: Aganta, Burina, Burinata for harp; FAURÉ: Impromptu; BRITTEN: Suite for harp Op 83 - Godelieve Schrama (harp) (Canal Grande CG 9530)

  2:15 approx - Disc 3

  STENHAMMAR: Seven Poems from Thoughts of Solitude Op 7; Five Songs to texts by J.L. Runeberg Op 8; Four Swedish Songs Op 16; Five Songs of Bo Bergman Op 20; Songs & Moods Op 26; Late Harvest - Peter Mattei (bar), Bengt-Ake Lundin (pno) (BIS CD 654)

  3:35 approx - Disc 4

  LILBURN: Landfall in Unknown Seas; PRUDEN: Dances of Brittany; HEENAN: Cindy; Three Maori Songs; RITCHIE: Concerto for Clarinet & Strings; FARQUHAR: Ring Around the Moon - Alex Lindsay String Orch/Alex Lindsay (Kiwi CD SLD 107)

  4:45 approx - Disc 5

  BRAHMS: Theme and variations for piano; Presto Studies, No 3 & No 4; Chaconne Study No 5, from Five Studies for Piano; Hungarian Dances; Gavotte; Impromptu; Etude Study No 1; Rondo Study No 2, from Five Studies for Piano - Georg Friedrich Schenck (pno) (Koch Schwann 3-1172)

• 6:00 AM. Sanctuary

  ANON: Non nobis Domine - Tonus Peregrinus (Naxos 8.557340)

  ALLEGRI arr Barley: Miserere mei, Deus - Matthew Barley (cello) (Black Box BBM 1068)

  FASCH: Cantata, You shall love the Lord your God with your whole heart - Maria Zádori (sop), Lena Susanne Norin (contralto), Hans Jörg Mammel (ten), Klaus Mertens (bass), Rhineland Kantorei, Das Kleine Konzert/Hermann Max (CPO 999 594)

  GÓRECKI: Totus tuus - Holst Singers/Stephen Layton (Hyperion CDA 66928)

  BITTOVÁ: Oboe - Bart Schneemann (ob), Daniel Raiskin (vla) (Channel Classics CCS 18598)

  TANEYEV: John of Damascus - Russian State Symphonic Cappella, Russian State SO/Valeri Polyansky (Chandos CHAN 9608)

  M HAYDN: Missa Sancti Joannis Nepomuceni - Cantemus Chamber Choir, German Chamber Academy, Neuss/Werner Ehrhardt (Capriccio 71 084)

  LAURIDSEN: Introitus, from Lux aeterna - Nordic Chamber Choir/Nicol Matt, Jörg Halubek (org) (Bayer BR 100 305)

  PEROTIN: Beata viscera - Rebecca Hickey (sop) (Naxos 8.557340)

• 8:00 AM. Grace Notes

  FAURÉ: Pavane - ASMF & Chorus/Neville Marriner (Decca 425 014)

  MASSENET arr Mouton: Mélodie-Elégie - Peter Dixon (cello), BBC Phil/Yan Pascal Tortelier (Chandos CHAN 9765)

  VERDI: Laudi alla Vergine Maria, from Four Sacred Pieces - King's College Choir, Cambridge/Stephen Cleobury (EMI 5 57896)

  PÄRT arr Kremer: Spiegel im Spiegel - Gidon Kremer (vln), Naoko Yoshino (harp) (Philips 456 016)

  HANDEL: Minuet, from Berenice - English CO/Raymond Leppard (Sony MLK 64066)

  ALBÉNIZ: Evocación, from Iberia Book 1 - Andrew Rangell (pno) (Dorian DOR 93194)

  PUCCINI: E lucevan le stelle, from Tosca - Plácido Domingo (ten), Rome Theatre Opera Orch, Florence May Festival Orch/Zubin Mehta (Decca 440 072)

  CHAPLIN arr Ogermann Smile, from Modern Times - Gidon Kremer (vln), Oleg Maisenberg (pno) (Telarc 0630 17222)

  RAVEL: Pavane for a Dead Princess - Philharmonia/Carlo Maria Giulini (DG 423 199)

• 9:00 AM. Composer of the Week

  FRANZ LISZT (1811-1886)

  Two programmes marking the 200th anniversary of Liszt's birth

  (2) Peter Watts looks at various influences in the composer's life and his role in the development of the Symphonic Poem (R Mon 7.00pm) (RNZ)

  Paganini Etudes, No 1 in G minor, Tremolo; No 6 in A minor, Theme & Variations - Marc-André Hamelin (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67370)

  Orpheus - BBC Phil/Gianandrea Noseda (Chandos CHAN 10341)

• 10:00 AM. Music Mountain

  Performances recorded at the 2009 season of the Music Mountain Chamber Music Festival in Falls Village, Connecticut

  Twenty-six programmes

  (18) Parnas-Serkin Trio, Alexander Mekinulov (pno), St Petersburg String Quartet

  BRAHMS: Piano Trio No 1 in B Op 8; PIAZZOLLA: Four Seasons in Buenos Aires, excerpts, Winter & Spring; SHOSTAKOVICH: String Quartet No 8 in C minor Op 110; BRAHMS: Piano Quartet No 1 in G minor Op 25; SCHUMANN: Piano Quartet in Eb Op 47, excerpt (Keystone Productions)

• Noon The Critic's Chair

  Erica Challis reviews recent releases (RNZ)

• 1:00 PM. Vintage Years

  Composers as performers

  C SILVESTRI: Three pieces for strings Op 4/2 - Bournemouth SO/Constantin Silvestri (rec 1967) (Nimbus NI 6124)

  RUBBRA: Violin Sonata No 2 Op 31 - Frederick Grinke (vln), Edmund Rubbra (pno) (rec 1954) (Dutton CDLX 7232)

  DOHNÁNYI: Variations on a Nursery Song Op 25 - Ernst von Dohnányi (pno), Royal Phil/Adrian Boult (rec 1956) (Praga PRD 250 231)

• 2:00 PM. The Sunday Feature

  Three Divas

  (3) Dame Joan Sutherland (1926-2010)

  "Whether producing mind-boggling divisions, arpeggios, appoggiaturas, pinpoint staccati, colossal high notes which lose no quality in delivery, or that unequalled trill, every arsenal of the coloratura is supremely at her command" (Opera Britannia)

  Roger Flury and Des Wilson talk about the life and career of the great Australian soprano, known around the world as 'La Stupenda' (RNZ)

• 3:00 PM. Opera on Sunday

  Metropolitan Opera Season

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

  (10) DONIZETTI: Don Pasquale, an opera in three acts

  Pompous old Don Pasquale is furious at his nephew and heir Ernesto. Don Pasquale found Ernesto a wealthy bride, but Ernesto is in love with beautiful Norina, and won't look at another woman. Don Pasquale thinks Norina isn't rich enough for Ernesto. He's ordered his nephew to leave her - or lose his inheritance forever. This is the setting for a comic masterpiece that is economical, well-crafted, and hilarious, striking just the right balance between satire and compassion

  Don Pasquale................ John Del Carlo

  Dr Malatesta................. Mariusz Kwiecien

  Ernesto......................... Matthew Polenzani

  Norina.......................... Rachelle Durkin

  Notary.......................... Bernard Fitch

  Metropolitan Opera Chorus & Orch/James Levine (EBU)

• 6:05 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ musicians and composers

  LILBURN: Duos - Glenda Craven, Dean Major (vlns) (Kiwi SLD 58)

  TCHAIKOVSKY: Sleeping Beauty, excerpts - New Zealand SO/Alexander Lazarev (NZSO)

  STRAUSS arr Taubmann: Dance of the seven veils, from Salome - Julian Reynolds, Peter Lockwood (pno duo) (Globe GLO 5153)

• 7:00 PM. New Horizons

  Ten programmes

  (1) With William Dart (RNZ)

• 8:00 PM. Young New Zealand

  Gisborne Music Competition 2010

  Three programmes

  (1) Performances from the semi-final

  HUBAY: Fantasy on Bizet's Carmen - Anne-Marie Johnson (vln), Rosemary Barnes (pno)

  MOZART: Third movement, Allegro, from Oboe Concerto in C K314; BACH: Third & Fourth movements, Sarabande; Bourrée anglaise, from Oboe Sonata in G minor BWV1013 - Thomas Hutchinson (ob), Sarah Watkins (pno)

  SARASATE: Gypsy Airs Op 20; BACH: Second & Third movements, Courante; Sarabande, from Partita No 2 in D minor BWV1004 - Shuai Li Du(vln), Bruce Greenfield (pno)

  HINDEMITH: First, Second & Third movements, Langsam; Ruhig bewegt; Lebhaft, from Trauermusik - Katie Yap (vla), Kirsten Simpson (pno)

  REINECKE: Fourth movement, Finale, from Flute Sonata in E minor Op 167, Undine - Dominique Chaseling (fl), Sarah Watkins (pno)

  FARR: Wakatipu; BEETHOVEN: First movement, Allegro con brio, from Violin Sonata No 7 in C minor Op 30/2 - Kana Ohashi (vln), Sarah Watkins (pno)

  CRUMB: First movement, Fantasia, from Sonata for solo cello; POPPER: Hungarian Rhapsody Op 68 - Heather Lewis (cello), Amy Lewis (pno) (recorded in Gisborne War Memorial Theatre by RNZ)

• 9:20 PM. Two Names, One Tale

  ROSSINI: Nacqui all'affano, from La Cenerentola - Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo), Bologna Teatro Communale Chorus & Orch/Riccardo Chailly (Decca 448 300)

  PROKOFIEV: Cinderella, excerpts - St Petersburg Phil/Yuri Temirkanov (Signum SIGCD 214)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  SCHMITT arr Watkins/Chatron: Andante & Scherzo for harp & string quartet - Sandrine Chatron (harp), Elias String Quartet (Ambroisie AMB 9978)

  SCRIABIN: Piano Concerto in F# minor Op 20 - Vladimir Ashkenazy (pno), London Phil/Lorin Maazel (Decca 417 252)

  GLIÈRE: The Sirens Op 33 - Slovak Phil/Stephen Gunzenhauser (Marco Polo 8.220349)

  11:00 RACHMANINOV: Cello Sonata in G minor Op 19 - Wendy Warner (cello), Irina Nuzova (pno) (Cedille CDR 90000 120)

  COOKE: Flute Quartet - Patrick Williams (fl), Warren Zielinski (vln), Morgan Goff (vla), Justin Pearson (cello) (Dutton CDLX 7247)

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