Sunday 24 April 2011 Rātapu 24 Paenga-whāwhā 2011

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  Disc 1

  GADE: Echos of Ossian Op 1; Symphony No 3 in A minor Op 15; Andante-Allegro energico-Andante; Symphony No 6 in G minor Op 32 - Danish National SO/Christopher Hogwood (Chandos CHAN 9795)

  1:20 approx - Disc 2

  BACH: Partita in A minor BWV1013; HOTTETERRE: Airs et Brunettes, excerpts; WEISS arr Kuijken: Suite in G; VIVALDI arr Rousseau: Four Seasons, Spring RV269; CPE BACH: Flute Sonata in A minor Wq132; FISCHER: Minueto with variations - Barthold Kuijken (transverse fl) (Accent ACC 20144)

  2:35 approx - Disc 3

  G IVES: There is a land of pure love; Ego sum panis vivus; In pace; Lord, is it I?; A song of Divine Love; Lullaby; Missa Brevis; The Edington Service - Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford/Bill Ives, Jonathon Hardy, Richard Pinel (org) (Harmonia Mundi HMU 90 7420)

  3:50 approx - Disc 4

  LALO: Symphonie Espagnole Op 21; Norwegian Fantasy; Cello Concerto - Pierre Amoyal (vln), Frederic Lodéon (cello), Monte Carlo National Opera Orch/Paul Paray, Philharmonia/Charles Dutoit (Erato 2564 60226)

  4:55 approx - Disc 5

  BRAHMS: Piano Sonata in F minor Op 5/3; BERG: Piano Sonata Op 1; BARTÓK: Out Doors Sz81; SCRIABIN: Etude Op 2/1 - Jeffrey Grice (pno) (Gold CV-S 006G)

• 6:00 AM. Sanctuary

  TRAD arr Zygel: Prière - Sonia Wieder-Atherton (cello) (Naïve V 5226)

  RHEINBERGER: Easter Hymn Op 134 - Phoenix Bach Choir, Kansas City Chorale/Charles Bruffy (Chandos CHSA 5055)

  FRANCK: Alleluia!, from Choeur de Pâques - Sam Landman, Charlie Phillips, Fergus Thirlwell (trebles), King's College Choir, Cambridge/Stephen Cleobury, Tom Winpenney (org) (EMI 5 57896)

  GRIEG: Four Psalms Op 74 - Norwegian Soloists' Choir/Grete Pedersen (BIS SACD 1661)

  RUTTER: Variations on an Easter theme - David Hill, Stephen Farr (organs of Winchester Cathedral) (Herald HAVPCD 199)

  BACH: Easter Oratorio BWV249 (written for Easter Day) - Carolyn Sampson (sop), Iestyn Davies (countertenor), James Gilchrist (ten), Peter Harvey (bass), Retrospect Ensemble/Matthew Halls (Linn CKD 373)

  ANON: Victimae paschali laudes; TOURNEMIRE: Chorale Improvisation on Victimae paschali - Bernhard Marx (organ of St Blaise' Cathedral, Black Forest, Germany), Schola Gregoriana of the Rottenburg Academy for Church Music/Bernhard Schmid (Ars Musici 232 260)

• 8:00 AM. Grace Notes

  RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Song of India, from Sadko - London SO/Yan Pascal Tortelier (Resonance CD RSN 3020)

  SHOSTAKOVICH: Romance, from The Gadfly - Tasmin Little (vln), Piers Lane (pno) (EMI CD EMX 2196)

  GAUTIER DE COINCY: Douce Dame - Ian Harrison (cornetto), Harp Consort/Andrew Lawrence-King (Harmonia Mundi HMU 90 7317)

  MONTEVERDI: Pur ti miro, from L'incoronazione di Poppea - Natasha Marsh (sop), Fernando Lima (countertenor), London SO/Craig Leon (EMI 2 16109)

  ELGAR: Sospiri Op 70 - Bournemouth Sinfonietta/George Hurst (Chandos CHAN 6544)

  CHOPIN: Etude in Ab Op 25/1, Aeolian Harp - Murray Perahia (pno) (Sony SK 61885)

  GLUCK: O del mio dolce ardor, from Paris & Helen - Keith Lewis (ten), NZSO CO/Kenneth Young (Trust MMT 2022)

  SUNG: Dance of the White Lotus Under the Silver Moon - Susan Glaser (fl), Emily Mitchell (harp) (Koch International 3-7497)

  RAVEL: Pavane for a Dead Princess - New Zealand SO/Kenneth Young (RNZ)

• 9:00 AM. Composer of the Week

  Allan Badley presents a programme on the life and music of LEOPOLD MOZART (1719-1787) (R Mon 7.00pm) (RNZ)

  Symphony in A, Eisen A1 - Toronto CO/Kevin Mallon (Naxos 8.570499)

  Sinfonia in D, Peasant Wedding - Paul Angerer (hurdy-gurdy), Sebastian Kelber (bagpipes), Eduard Melkus Ensemble (Archiv 427 122)

• 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

  (25) Daniel Binelli (bandoneón), Cuarteto Latinoamericano

  VILLA-LOBOS: String Quartet No 1; BINELLI: Preludio y Candombe; COBIAN: Los Mareados; PIAZZOLLA: Adios nonino; PALACIO: Deserraitango; BINELLI: Metropolis; PIAZZOLLA: Oblivion; Fuga y Misterio; GARDEL: Volva; Por una Cabeza; BEETHOVEN: String Quartet in A minor Op 132 (Keystone Productions)

• Noon The Critic's Chair

  Reviews of recent releases: Erica Challis and Peter Mechen review recent releases (RNZ)

• 1:00 PM. Vintage Years

  ARNOLD: Beckus the Dandipratt - London Phil/Eduard van Beinum (rec 1947) (LPO 0011)

  BRAHMS: Piano Concerto No 2 in Bb Op 83 - Claudio Arrau (pno), Scottish National Orch/Alexander Gibson (rec 1963) (BBC Legends BBCL 4125)

• 2:00 PM. The Sunday Feature

  The Stars are Comforting

  The letters of Beatrice Hill Tinsley (1941-1981)

  Her research into the Evolution of Galaxies made Beatrice Tinsley a giant of 20th century astronomy. Throughout her life Beatrice also played her violin and wrote home to her family

  Twenty programmes, with letters edited by Theodora Lee-Smith and read by Tina Regtien

  (4) Twenty-first, nuclear proliferation and MSc: 1962-3 (RNZ)

• 3:00 PM. Opera on Sunday

  Metropolitan Opera Season

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

  (17) ROSSINI: Le Comte Ory, an opera in two acts

  In his attempts to pursue Adèle, the young and profligate Count Ory is willing to disguise himself as a hermit and even as a nun. But does he win the woman?

  Count Ory..................... Juan Diego Flórez

  Tutor............................. Michele Pertusi

  Isolier............................ Joyce DiDonato

  Raimbaud...................... Stéphane Degout

  Countess Adèle............. Diana Damrau

  Ragonde....................... Susanne Resmark

  Alice............................. Monica Yunus

  First Knight................... Tony Stevenson

  Second Knight.............. Tyler Simpson

  Metropolitan Opera Chorus & Orch/Maurizio Benini (EBU)

• 6:10 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ musicians and composers

  HILL: The Sacred Mountain - Melbourne SO/Wilfred Lehmann (Marco Polo 8.220345)

  BROUWER: Suite No 2 - Matthew Marshall (gtr) (Private Recording)

  PROKOFIEV: Piano Concerto No 3 in C Op 26 - John Chen (pno), NZSO National Youth Orch 2005/Edwin Outwater (RNZ)

• 7:00 PM. New Horizons

  Ten programmes

  (7) William Dart reviews new releases from Lucinda Williams and June Tabor (RNZ)

• 8:00 PM. Young New Zealand

  Pettman/Royal Overseas League Scholarship 2010 Final

  BEETHOVEN arr Pauer: Fifth & Sixth movements, Scherzo; Andante con moto alla Marcia, from Septet in Eb Op 20; HAMILTON: Tui; FITKIN: There is a great weight on my head tonight - Untitled Piano Quartet

  BEETHOVEN: First & Second movements, Allegro con brio; Adagio affetuoso ed appassionato, from String Quartet in F Op 81/1; SZYMANOWSKI: First movement, Lento assai, from String Quartet No 1 in C Op 37 - Lazarus String Quartet

  DUBOIS: Quatuor; BACH arr anon: Fugue in G minor BWV578; FELD: Third, Fourth & Fifth movements, from Saxophone Quartet - New Zealand School of Music Saxophone Quartet (recorded in the Gallagher Concert Chamber at the University of Waikato by RNZ)

• 9:35 PM. Davis conducts Nielsen

  Symphony No 4 Op 29, The Inextinguishable - London SO/Colin Davis (LSO Live LSO 0694)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  G RITTER: Bassoon Quartet in Eb Op 1/4 - Paolo Carlini (bsn), I Virtuosi Italiani (Naxos 8.570500)

  LILBURN: Seventeen Short Pieces for guitar - Matthew Marshall (gtr) (RNZ)

  HAYDN: Symphony No 96 in D, Miracle - Philharmonia Hungarica/Antal Dorati (Decca 425 935)

  11:00 BEETHOVEN arr Hermann/Silverthorne: Septet in Eb Op 20 - Paul Silverthorne (vla), David Owen Norris (pno) (Toccata Classics TOCC 0108)

  DEBUSSY: En blanc et noir - Vladimir & Vovka Ashkenazy (pno duo) (Decca 478 1090)

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