Schedule for Sunday 18 December 2011

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12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

Disc 1
PROKOFIEV: Symphony No 1 in D Op 25, Classical; Lieutenant Kijé Op 60; Symphony No 7 in C# minor Op 131 - London SO/André Previn (EMI 747 855)
1:05 approx - Disc 2
DVORÁK: Piano Quintets, in A Op 81; in Eb Op 87 - Menahem Pressler (pno), Emerson String Quartet (DG 439 868)
2:20 approx - Disc 3
A Christmas Carol from Westminster Abbey
PEARSALL: In dulci jubilo; POULENC: Quatre motets pour le temps de Noël; LEIGHTON: A Christmas Carol Op 21; WALTON: All this time; LAVINO: Nativity; RUTTER: Dormi, Jesu; CHILCOTT: Shepherd's Carol; DOVE: The three kings; TRAD arr Cleobury: Joys Seven; GRUBER arr Bowers-Broadbent: Silent Night; TRAD arr O'Donnell: I saw Three Ships; HEAD: The Little Road to Bethlehem; MATHIAS: Ave Rex Op 45 - Choir of Westminster Abbey/James O'Donnell, Robert Quinney (org) (Hyperion CDA 67716)
3:30 approx - Disc 4
SAINT-SAËNS: Carnival of the Animals; Polonaise Op 77; Caprice arabe Op 96; Scherzo Op 87; Variations on a theme by Beethoven Op 35; Danse macabre Op 44 - Julian Reynolds, Peter Lockwood (pnos), Concentus Bestiales/Julian Reynolds (Globe GLO 5152)
4:50 approx - Disc 5
SOLER: Three Sonatas; REVUELTAS: Sensemayá; DIMAS: Sones de Mariachi; PONCE: Estrellita; HALFFTER: Obertura Festiva; REVUELTAS: Janitzio; HALFFTER: Tripartita; REVUELTAS: Ocho por Radio; VILLANUEVA: Vals Poetico; BUXTEHUDE orch Chávez: Chaconne in E minor - Mexico City Phil/Enrique Bátiz (ASV CD CDA 894)
6:00 AM. Sanctuary

TAVENER: O, do not move; Today the Virgin; TCHAIKOVSKY: Legend, Christ in his garden - Rodolfus Choir/Ralph Allwood (BBC Music BBC MM 326)
H PRAETORIUS: Angelus ad pastores ait - Bremen Baroque Consort/Manfred Cordes (CPO 777 553)
HILDEGARD OF BINGEN interpreted by Richard Souther: Tree of Wonders; Red River Falling - Katie McMahon, Sister Germaine Fritz, Nóirín Ní Riain (vocalists), Richard Souther (keyboard/synthesizers), Davy Spillane (whistles), Maria Kitsopoulos (cello) (Sony SK 62853)
MOME/ANON/ROSSI/DIMOVA: Hey Maiden; A Virgin is bearing today; Foom, foom; Ostinato; Glorify; In suffers is bearing Mother Mary - Sofia Singers/Ludmila Dimova (Fremeaux FA 406)
PARRY: Blest Pair of Sirens - Choir of Winchester Cathedral, Waynflete Singers, Bournemouth SO/David Hill, Timothy Byram-Wigfield (org) (Argo 430 836)
A SCARLATTI: Christmas Cantata - Mária Zádori (sop), Capella Savaria/Pál Németh (Hungaraton HCD 12561)
RUTTER: Shepherd's Pipe Carol; KIRKPATRICK: Away in a manger; GRUBER: Silent Night; TRAD English arr Vaughan Williams: Sussex Carol; RUTTER: Star Carol - Catherine Rogers (contralto), Bach Choir, members of the Philip Jones Brass Ensemble (Decca 436 484)
SCHUBERT: Offertorium in Bb D963 - Peter Schreier (ten), Berlin Radio Chorus & SO/Dietrich Knothe (Capriccio 71 050)
ANON arr Harms: Latvian Prayer - Dawn Harms (vla), Carolyn Mills (harp) (Atoll ACD 199)
PURCELL: Te Deum in D - Jeni Bern, Susan Bisatt (sops), William Purefoy, Christopher Robson (countertenors), Ian Honeyman (ten), Thomas Guthrie (bass), Choir & Orch of the Golden Age/Robert Glenton (Naxos 8.553444)
8:00 AM. Grace Notes

LIADOV: The Enchanted Lake - Eastman Philharmonia/Howard Hanson (Mercury 434 390)
FALVO arr Morini: Dicitencello vuje - Marco Beasley (ten), Guido Morini (pno) (NBE Live NBECD 010)
MOERAN: Lonely Waters, from Two Pieces for Small Orchestra - Ann Murray (mezzo), English CO/Jeffrey Tate (EMI CDC 7 47945)
RAVEL trans Ronchini: Pavane of Sleeping Beauty, from Mother Goose - Sharon Robinson (cello), Joseph Kalichstein (pno) (Arabesque Z 6736)
LEHÁR arr Stoltzman: Vilja's Song, from The Merry Widow - Richard Stoltzman (cl), Slovak Phil/Arthur Fagen (RCA 09026 68817)
PUCCINI: Crisantemi - Quartetto Puccini (ASV CD DCA 909)
RODRIGO: Second movement, Adagio, from Concierto de Aranjuez - Alexandre Lagoya (gtr), Monte Carlo National Opera Orch/Antonio de Almeida (ABC Classics 446 631)
9:00 AM. Christmastide

PRAETORIUS: Nun komm der Heiden Heiland - Bremen Baroque Consort/Manfred Cordes (CPO 777 327)
BRUHNS: Choral Fantasy, Nun komm der Heiden Heiland - Lorenzo Ghielmi (organ of the Basilica of San Simpliciano, Milan) (Winter & Winter 910 070)
OBRECHT: Factor orbis - New London Chamber Choir/James Wood (Amon Ra CD SAR 56)
BACH: Cantata No 132, Make ready the pathways, make ready the road - Arleen Auger (sop), Helen Watts (contralto), Kurt Equiluz (ten), Wolfgang Schöne (bass), Gächinger Kantorei, Stuttgart, Bach-Collegium, Stuttgart/Helmuth Rilling (Hänssler CD 92.041)
10:00 AM. Chamber Music at Lincoln Center

Thirteen programmes hosted by Elliott Forrest, with commentary by the Chamber Music Society's Artistic Director, David Finckel, recorded in New York City
(7) Shostakovich & Brahms
SHOSTAKOVICH: Piano Trio No 1 in C minor Op 8 - Anne-Marie McDermott (pno), Ida Kavafian (vln), Nicholas Altstaedt (cello)
BRAHMS: Piano Quartet No 1 in G minor Op 25 - Gilbert Kalish (pno), Jessica Lee (vln), Paul Neubauer (vla), Nicholas Altstaedt (cello) (WFMT)
11:00 AM. The Works

DVORÁK: The Golden Spinning Wheel Op 109 - London SO/István Kertész (Decca 417 596)
SAINT-SAËNS: Violin Concerto No 2 in C Op 58 - Fanny Clamagirand (vln), Sinfonia Finlandia/Patrick Gallois (Naxos 8.572037)
Noon Alte Musik

Nine programmes
(1) Music for Advent and Christmas in Baroque Prague
ROVENSKY: Maria, thou lofty field; O God, how did I deserve that your spirit of joy fills your Maiden; Mary give your consent; Rorate coeli, when holy prophets called from earth to the heavenly Father; REICHENAUER: Cantata, Quae est ista; ZELENKA: Alma Redemptoris Mater; REICHENAUER: Trio Sonata in D; O coeli, rorate; CALDARA: Quel pargoletto; ROVENSKY: O my beloved; To little Jesus; A darling child - Hana Blazíková (sop), Tomás Král, Marián Krejcík (bars), Collegium Marianum/Jana Semerádová (dir) (Supraphon SU 4002)
1:00 PM. Vintage Years

POULENC: Les Biches, Suite - Paris Conservatoire Orch/Roger Désormière (rec 1951) (Testament SBT 1294)
MOZART: Piano Sonata No 14 in C minor K457 - Emil Gilels (pno) (rec 1950) (Naxos 8.111350)
CARPENTER: Sea Drift - New York Phil/Leonard Bernstein (rec 1945) (Symposium 1295)
2:00 PM. The Sunday Feature

Rossini's One Night Wonder
Elric Hooper and Des Wilson investigate why the première of Rossini's Ermione in March 1819, was such a spectacular failure (RNZ)
3:00 PM. Opera on Sunday

Gramophone Awards 2011
Best Opera Recording
ROSSINI: Ermione, an opera in two acts
Ermione........................ Carmen Giannattasio
Andromaca................... Patricia Bardon
Pirro............................. Paul Nilon
Oreste........................... Colin Lee
Pilade............................ Bülent Bezdüz
Fenicio.......................... Graeme Broadbent
Cleone.......................... Rebecca Bottone
Cefisa........................... Victoria Simmonds
Attalo............................ Loïc Félix
Geoffrey Mitchell Choir, London Phil/David Parry (Opera Rara ORC 42)
5:30 PM. Greek Gods

WOOD: Apollo, Overture - Czecho-Slovak Radio SO/Adrian Leaper (Marco Polo 8.223402)
GARBAREK: Pan - Jan Garbarek (sax) (ECM 1685/86)
H BLAKE: Leda & the Swan Op 249a - Edinburgh Quartet (Naxos 8.572688)
6:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

NZ musicians and composers
RACHMANINOV: Piano Trio No 1 in G minor, Elégiaque - New Zealand Chamber Soloists (Atoll ACD 209)
MADDEN: Tuba Tune in Eb - Kemp English (organ of the Dunedin Town Hall) (Ode CD MANU 5053)
HONEGGER: Symphony No 3, Liturgique - New Zealand SO/Takuo Yuasa (Naxos 8.555974)
7:00 PM. Blue Smoke

The birth of New Zealand popular music, written and presented by Chris Bourke
A third series in three programmes
(3) These Kia Ora Islands: New Zealand original songwriting and cover versions of overseas hits (RNZ)
8:00 PM. Young New Zealand

The Big Sing
Nine programmes
(9) The Big Sing Gala Concert featuring all 22 choirs
TRAD arr Patriquin: The stuttering lovers - Craighead Chorale (Craighead Diocesan)
MENDELSSOHN: Lift thine eyes, from Elijah - Southern Hesperides (Otago Girls' High School)
TRAD arr Luboff: All my trials - Barock (Otago Boys' and Otago Girls' High Schools)
LEHRER arr Knudson: The masochism tango - Otago Boys' High School Choir (Otago Boys' High School)
CACCINI arr Liebergen: Ave verum - Stella Collegians (Nelson College for Girls and Nelson College)
TRAD Yiddish arr Hatfield: Vus Vet Zayn - Euphony (Kristin School)
LYONDEV: Kafal Sviri - Resolutions (Rangi Ruru Girls' School)
WAIMOTU: Te Atua - The Sweet Sixteen (Aorere College)
MELBOURNE arr Pati: Purea Nei - Front Row (Aorere College)
BURDON arr Pati: Atapo - Bella (Freyberg High School)
WALLER arr Gritton: Ain't misbehavin' - King's Voices (King's College)
KIRCKNER: Cornerstone - Petra Voce (St Peter's School, Cambridge)
TRAD arr Erb: Shenandoah - Bellissimo (Whangaparaoa College)
CHIVERS: Freedom - Queen Margaret Chorale (Queen Margaret College)
KERN: All the things you are - SOS (Rangitoto College)
TOTO: Africa - Crescendos (Middleton Grange School)
ESTEVEZ arr Grau: Mata del anima sola - Bella Voce (Marlborough Girls' College)
GORDON: There is no rose of such virtue - Saint Cecilia Singers (Diocesan School for Girls)
SCHUMANN: Es ist verraten - Macleans College Choir (Macleans College)
EVANS: The lamb - Bel Canto (Burnside High School)
DEBUSSY: Noël des enfants qui n'ont plus de maisons - Teal Voices (Wellington Girls' College)
PÄRT: Bogoroditse Dyevo - Choralation (Westlake Girls' and Boys' High Schools)
HAMILTON: Toyota, from Crumpy! - Voicemale (Westlake Boys' High School)
BRACKEN/WOODS: God Defend New Zealand - Massed Choir (recorded in the Wellington Town Hall by RNZ)
9:40 PM. NZSO's 2012 Guests

CHOPIN: Waltzes, in B minor Op 69/2; in E Op posth; in Ab Op posth - Stephen Hough (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67849)
ELGAR: Serenade for Strings Op 20 - Royal Phil/Andrew Litton (Virgin VC 7 90727)
10:00 PM. Day's End

TELEMANN: Overture-Suite in C, Hamburg Ebb & Flow - Cappella Coloniensis/Hans-Martin Linde (Capriccio 71 120)
ARBOS: Three Original Pieces in Spanish Style Op 1, Boléro; Habanera; Seguidillas gitanas - Devich Trio (Challenge Classics CC 72322)
JOACHIM: Variations in E minor - Hideko Udagawa (vln), Philharmonia/Martyn Brabbins (Signum SIGCD 224)
11:00 SUK: Serenade in Eb for strings Op 6 - I Musici de Montréal/Yuli Turovsky (Chandos CHAN 8659)
GRIEG: Lyric Pieces Book 10 - Gerhard Oppitz (pno) (RCA 09026 61568)