Sunday 4 May 2014 Rātapu 4 Haratua 2014

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  Disc 1

  LILBURN: Festival Overture; A Song of Islands; Suite for Orchestra; A Birthday Offering; Drysdale Overture - New Zealand SO/William Southgate (Continuum CCD 1076)

  1:00 approx - Disc 2

  VILLA-LOBOS: Rudepoema; Cirandas Nos 1-16 - Alma Petchersky (pno) (ASV CD DCA 959)

  2:15 approx - Disc 3

  NIELSEN: Hymnus Amoris; The Sleep; Springtime in Funen; Three Motets Op 55 - Inga Nielsen (sop), Poul Elming (ten), Copenhagen Boys' Choir, Children's Chorus of St Anne School, Danish National Radio Choir & SO/Leif Segerstam, Stefan Parkman (Chandos CHAN 8853)

  3:30 approx - Disc 4

  HAYDN: String Quartets Op 20, No 2 in C; No 4 in D; No 3 in G minor - Quatuor Mosaïques (Astrée Auvidis E 8784)

  4:50 approx - Disc 5

  FARNON: Portrait of a Flirt; How Beautiful is the Night; Melody Fair; A la Claire Fontaine; The Peanut Polka; In a Calm, Impressions for Orchestra, No 2; Gateway to the West; Jumping Bean; Pictures in the Fire; Little Miss Molly; Colditz March; A Star is Born; The Westminster Waltz; Manhattan Playboy, Three Impressions for Orch, No 3; Lake in the Woods; Derby Day; State Occasion - Czecho-Slovak Radio SO, Bratislava/Adrian Leaper (Marco Polo 8.223401)

• 6:00 AM. Sanctuary

  MENDELSSOHN: Deutsche Liturgie - Graduate Choir/Terence Maskell (Atoll ACD 407)

  LEIGHTON: Rockingham - Jeremy Woodside (organ of ChristChurch Cathedral, Christchurch) (ChristChurch Cathedral)

  BACH: Cantata No 112, written for the second Sunday after Easter, The Lord is my faithful shepherd - Katharine Fuge (sop), William Towers (countertenor), Norbert Meyn (ten), Stephen Varcoe (bass), Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists/John Eliot Gardiner (Soli Deo Gloria SDG 131)

  K JENKINS: Benedictus, from The Armed Man, A Mass for Peace - National Youth Choir of Great Britain, London Phil/Karl Jenkins, Guy Johnston (cello) (Virgin 8 11015)

  HARRIS: Faire is the Heaven - Choir of St John's, Elora/Noel Edison (Naxos 8.557037)

  VANHAL: Missa solemnis in C - Mary Enid Haines (sop), Nina Scott Stoddart (mezzo), Colin Ainsworth (ten), Steven Pitkanen (bass), James Tibbles (org), Voices New Zealand Chamber Choir, Aradia Ensemble/Uwe Grodd (Naxos 8.555080)

  SS WESLEY: Blessed be the God and Father - Choir of St John's College Cambridge/Andrew Nethsingha, John Challenger (org) (Chandos CHAN 10751)

• 7:30 AM. Hymns on Sunday

  A weekly selection of traditional and modern hymns (RNZ)

• 8:00 AM. Grace Notes

  MARTUCCI: Notturno Op 70/1 - Rome SO/Francesco La Vecchia (Naxos 8.570929)

  VILLETTE: Complainte - Edward Beckett (fl), London Festival Orch/Ross Pople (Black Box BBM 1049)

  HANDEL: Waft her, angels, through the skies, from Jephtha - Keith Lewis (ten), NZSO CO/Kenneth Young (Trust MMT 2022)

  GRIEG: To Spring, from Lyric Pieces Book 3 - Andrei Gavrilov (pno) (DG 437 522)

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

  TCHAIKOVSKY arr Geringas: Andante Cantabile, from String Quartet No 1 - Henri Demarquette (cello), Boris Berezovsky (pno) (Mirare MIR 200)

  F LAMBERT: She is far from the land - Kiri Te Kanawa (sop), Roger Vignoles (pno) (Kiwi CD TRL 025)

  BEACH: Berceuse - Andreas Ottensamer (cl), Rotterdam Phil/Yannick Nézet-Séguin (DG 481 0131)

  HONEGGER: Pastorale d'été - New Zealand SO/James Sedares (RNZ)

• 9:00 AM. Composer of the Week

  JACK BODY (b1944)

  Two Programmes

  A portrait of the New Zealand composer and ethnomusicologist presented by Elizabeth Kerr, Part 1 (RNZ) (Programme 2 on Monday at 7pm)

• 10:00 AM. West Cork Chamber Music Festival 2013

  Twenty programmes from Ireland's leading chamber music event, held every summer for a nine day period with over 100 international musicians

  (14) ENESCU: Suite No 1 in G minor, In the ancient style Op 3 - Alexei Grynyuk (pno)

  MOZART: String Quintet No 4 in G minor K516 - RTE Vanbrugh Quartet, Silvia Simionescu (vla)

  BRITTEN: Cello Suite No 3 Op 87 - Marc Coppey (cello)

  SHOSTAKOVICH: String Quartet No 11 in F minor Op 122 - Casals Quartet (Radio Ireland)

  ENESCU: Romanian Rhapsody No 1 in A - Alexei Grynyuk (pno)

• Noon The Critic's Chair

• 1:00 PM. Vintage Years

  Vintage New Zealand

  WALTON: Partita for Orchestra - New Zealand SO/William Walton (rec 1964) (Bridge 9133A/B)

  BEETHOVEN: Violin Sonata No 5 in F Op 24, Spring - Alan Loveday (vln), Leonard Cassini (pno) (rec c1963) (Fidelio ALT 4060)

  FARQUHAR: Ring Round the Moon - augmented Alex Lindsay String Orch/Alex Lindsay (rec 1953) (Kiwi CD SLD 107)

• 2:00 PM. The Sunday Feature

  How does NZ Opera's intern programme help young New Zealand singers to forge a career in the international profession of opera singing?

  Clarissa Dunn goes behind the scenes and talks to incoming and outgoing Emerging Artists, Resident Artist Anna Leese, as well as Dame Malvina Major, director of music Wyn Davies and out-going general director Aidan Lang (RNZ)

• 3:00 PM. Young New Zealand

  Natalie Lin (vln), Sarah Watkins (pno)

  BACH: First & Second movements, Adagio; Fugue, from Violin Sonata No 3 in C BWV1005; MOZART: First movement, Allegro, from Violin Concerto No 4 in D K218; BODY: Caravan; PAGANINI: Caprice No 10 in G minor, from 24 Caprices Op 1; BEETHOVEN: First & Second movements, Allegro assai; Tempo di Minuetto Violin Sonata No 8 in G Op 30/3; YSAŸE: Sonata in D minor for solo violin Op 27/3 (recorded at the 2013 Michael Hill International Violin Competition in the Queenstown Memorial Hall by RNZ)

• 4:05 PM. Felix & Fanny

  MENDELSSOHN: Symphony No 1 in C minor Op 11 - Winterthur Musikkollegium/Thomas Zehetmair (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 901 1814)

  F MENDELSSOHN: String Quartet in Eb - Quatuor Ebène (EMI 4 64546)

• 5:00 PM. New Horizons

  Ten programmes

  (10) With William Dart (RNZ)

• 6:00 PM. Opera on Sunday

  Metropolitan Opera Season

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

  (18) PUCCINI: La Bohème, an opera in four acts

  Living the Bohemian life beneath the cold, grey skies of Paris's Latin Quarter, the poet Rodolfo and the frail seamstress Mimì find love, merriment and despair

  Rodolfo............................ Vittorio Grigolo

  Mimì................................ Anita Hartig

  Marcello........................... Massimo Cavalletti

  Musetta............................ Susanna Phillips

  Schaunard......................... Patrick Carfizzi

  Colline.............................. Oren Gradus

  Benoît/Alcindoro............. Donald Maxwell

  Parpignol.......................... Daniel Clark Smith

  Custom Sergeant.............. Jason Hendrix

  Officer.............................. Joseph Turi

  Metropolitan Opera Chorus & Orch/Stefano Ranzani (EBU)

• 9:30 PM. From the New Zealand Collection

  HAYDN: Divertimento No 4 in C - Tres Cordes String Trio (Ode CD MANU 5122)

  SETCHELL: Three Piece Suite - Martin Setchell (organ of Christchurch Town Hall) (Atoll ACD 600)

  FARR: Funambulistic Strains - David Bremner (tbn), New Zealand SO/James Judd (Atoll ACD 109)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  SCHUMANN: Kinderszenen Op 15 - Tamás Vesmás (pno) (Manu CD MANU 1449)

  RODRIGO: Fantasia para un gentilhombre - John Williams (gtr), Philharmonia/Louis Frémaux (CBS M2K 44791)

  MOERAN: Rhapsody No 1 in F - Ulster Orch/JoAnn Falletta (Naxos 8.573106)

  11:00 BRAHMS: Violin Sonata No 3 in D minor Op 108 - Wilma Smith (vln), Michael Houstoun (pno) (RNZ)

  ONSLOW: String Quintet in G Op 35 - Momento Musicale Quintet (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 603 1253)

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