Sunday 8 March 2015 Rātapu 8 Poutū-te-rangi 2015

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  Disc 1

  LISZT: Hungarian Fantasy; Piano Concertos, No 1 in Eb; No 2 in A; Totentanz - Jean-Yves Thibaudet (pno), Montreal SO/Charles Dutoit (Decca 433 075)

  1:10 approx - Disc 2

  PAGANINI: 24 Caprices for solo violin Op 1 - Midori Seiler (vln) (CBS MK 44944)

  2:20 approx - Disc 3

  SCHUBERT: Die Nacht; Die Nachtigall; Wehmut; Der Gondelfahrer; Mondenschein; Nachthelle; Das Dorfchen; Die Einsiedelei; Sehnsucht; Grab und Mond; Frühlingsgesang; Liebe; Widerspruch; An den Frühling; La pastorella; Ständchen; Der Entfernten - Karl Dent, Richard Clement (tens), Martha Hart (mezzo), Norman Mackenzie (pno), Mary Akerman (gtr), Robert Shaw Chamber Singers/Robert Shaw (Telarc CD 80340)

  3:30 approx - Disc 4

  ELLER: Elegia for harp & strings; Five Pieces for string orchestra; Tone Poem, Dawn; RAID: Symphony No 1 in C minor - Eluned Pierce (harp), John Digney (ob), Scottish National Orch/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHAN 8525)

  4:45 approx - Disc 5

  WALTON: Façade, Long Steel Grass; STEVENS: Symphony of Liberation, Resistance; FRANKEL: First movement, from Symphony No 5; SEARLE: First movement, from Symphony No 2; FRANKEL: Carriage & Pair; WALTON: Old Sir Faulk, from Façade; Touch her soft lips & part, from Henry V; Gloria, from Christopher Columbus; ALWYN: First movement, from Lyra Angelica; Prelude to Odd Man Out; BLISS: Pastoral, The Pigeon Song, Lie strewn the white flocks; VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: The Lark Ascending; LEIGHTON: Third movement, Adagio molto, from Symphony No 3 - Susana Walton (narrator), Della Jones (mezzo), Arthur Davies, Neil Mackie (tens), Michael Davis (vln), Rachel Masters (harp), Westminster Singers, London SO, Royal Scottish National Orch/Bryden Thomson, Northern Sinfonia, City of London Sinfonia, Bournemouth SO/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 7008)

• 6:00 AM. Sanctuary

  ANON: Let all mortal flesh keep silence - Russian Patriarchate Choir/Anatoly Grindenko (Opus 111 OPS 30-240)

  FERRARI: Queste pungente spine; ROSSI: Voglio morire; LEGRENZI: Lumi, potete piangere - Philippe Jaroussky (countertenor), Nuria Rial (sop), L'Arpeggiata Christina Pluhar (Virgin 6 94577)

  VASKS: Fifth movement, Meditation, from String Quartet No 4 - Kronos Quartet (Nonesuch 7559 79695)

  PALESTRINA: Lamentations for Maundy Thursday, excerpt - Nordic Voices (Chandos CHAN 0763)

  KREBS: Chorale Prelude, Jesu, meine Freude - Neil Black (ob), Peter Hurford (organ of Gloucester Cathedral) (Argo 430 208)

  VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Mass in G minor - Richard Hickox Singers/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 9984)

  MENDELSSOHN: Ave Maria Op 23/2 - Christine Barratt, Janey MacKenzie (sops), Joya Logan, Jenny Youde (contraltos), Rogers Covey-Crump, Robin Mace (tens), Julian Walker, Kenneth Roles (basses), John Scott (org), Corydon Singers, English CO/Matthew Best (Hyperion CDA 66359)

• 7:30 AM. Hymns on Sunday

  A weekly selection of traditional and modern hymns (RNZ)

• 8:00 AM. Grace Notes

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

  TCHAIKOVSKY: Nocturne in D minor Op 19/4, from Six Piano Pieces Op 19 - Nina Kotova (cello), Moscow CO/Constantine Orbelian (Philips 462 612)

  HANDEL arr Hazell: Lascia ch'io pianga, from Rinaldo - Inessa Galante (sop), London Musici/Mark Stephenson (CampionCD 1345)

  CHOPIN: Prelude in Db Op 28/15, Raindrop - Vladimir Ashkenazy (pno) (Decca 417 751)

  GODARD arr Pierre: Berceuse, from Jocelyn - Patrick Gallois (fl), Fabrice Pierre (harp), London Festival Orch/Ross Pople (DG 445 822)

  ENESCU: Sérénade Lointaine - Trio Brancusi (Zig Zag ZZT 303)

  DELIUS arr Beecham: Fennimore & Gerda, Intermezzo - Bournemouth Sinfonietta/Norman Del Mar (Chandos CHAN 6502)

  TRAD arr Meyer: Star of the County Down - Mark O'Connor (vln), Yo-Yo Ma (cello), Edgar Meyer (dbass) (Sony SK 68460)

  TRAD: Suo-Gân - Bryn Terfel (bbar), Welsh National Opera Orch/Gareth Jones (DG 463 593)

• 9:00 AM. Composer of the Week

  The first two weeks of Composer of the Week for 2015 are devoted to DOUGLAS LILBURN (1915-2001), marking the 100th anniversary of his birth later this year

  (2) Lilburn's life and music from 1950 presented by Philip Norman (R Mon 7pm) (RNZ)

  Violin Sonata (1950) - Ruth Pearl (vln), Margaret Nielsen (pno) (Kiwi SLD 32)

  Four Canzonas - Wisconsin CO/Andrew Sewell (WCO Records CD 0001)

• 10:00 AM. Music@Menlo

  Resonance

  Music at Menlo is a California summer music festival. The 2012 season, Resonance, marked the festival's tenth anniversary.

  Six programmes

  (1) SCHUBERT: Fantasy in C D934 - Benjamin Beilman (vln), Juho Pohjonen (pno)

  German Dances D820 - Gilbert Kalish (pno)

  BEETHOVEN: Piano Trio No 6 in Eb Op 70/2 - Juho Pohjonen (pno), Benjamin Beilman (vln), David Finckel (cello) (recorded at the Center for Performing Arts at Menlo-Atherton by American Public Media)

• 11:05 AM. The Works

  GRIEG: Holberg Suite - Christopher Moore (vln), Australian CO/Richard Tognetti (vln/dir) (BIS SACD 1877)

  SAINT-SAËNS: Violin Concerto No 2 in C Op 58 - Fanny Clamagirand (vln), Sinfonia Finlandia/Patrick Gallois (Naxos 8.572037)

• Noon The Critic's Choice

  The top choices from leading overseas music magazines

  DUSAPIN: Reverso (solo no 6) - Radio France Phil/Myung-Whun Chung (DG 481 0786)

  BRAHMS: Violin Sonata No 1 in G Op 78 - Augustin Dumay (vln), Louis Lortie (pno) (Onyx 4133)

• 1:00 PM. Vintage Years

  The Czech Phil plays Dvořák

  The Golden Spinning Wheel Op 109 - Czech Phil/Václav Talich (rec 1951) (Supraphon SU 3827)

  Piano Concerto in G minor Op 33 - Frantisek Maxián (pno), Czech Phil/Václav Talich (rec 1951) (Supraphon SU 3825)

• 2:00 PM. The Sunday Feature

  Brilliant Brass

  Five programmes from Series 3, presented by David Bremner

  (5) Today's programme features the National Band of New Zealand, from years, 1953, 1965, 1974, 1985, 1992, 2003 and 2009 (RNZ)

• 3:00 PM. Young New Zealand

  From Geneva to Knoxville

  Xin Jin (vln), Amelia Berry (sop), NZ School of Music Orchestra/Kenneth Young

  BRAHMS: Tragic Overture; TCHAIKOVSKY: Violin Concerto in D Op 35; BARBER: Knoxville: Summer of 1915; BARTÓK: Dance Suite Sz77 (recorded in Sacred Heart Cathedral, Wellington by RNZ)

• 4:35 PM. Canadian Strings

  KENINS: Partita for strings on Lutheran Chorales - I Musici de Montreal/Yuli Turovsky (CBC SMCD 5131)

• 5:00 PM. New Horizons

  Ten programmes

  (2) With William Dart (R Fri 7.00pm) (RNZ)

• 6:00 PM. Opera on Sunday

  Metropolitan Opera Season

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

  (10) VERDI: Macbeth, an opera in four acts

  Verdi's life-long love of the works of Shakespeare has its first expression in this, his tenth opera. When writing to the librettist, Piave, he expressed how important the subject was, "... this tragedy is one of the greatest creations of man ... If we can't make something great out of it let us at least try to do something out of the ordinary"

  Macbeth....................... Zeljko Lucic

  Lady Macbeth............. Anna Netrebko

  Banquo........................ René Pape

  Macduff....................... Joseph Calleja

  Malcolm....................... Noah Baetge

  Servant......................... Christopher Job

  Lady-in-waiting........... Claudia Waite

  Herald.......................... Seth Malkin

  Metropolitan Opera Chorus & Orch/Fabio Luisi (EBU)

• 9:15 PM. From the New Zealand Collection

  DEBUSSY arr Lenski: Bilitis - Catherine Bowie (fl), Sharon Joy Vogan (pno) (RNZ)

  SOR: Introduction & Variations on a theme by Mozart Op 9 - Peter McAven (gtr) (Private)

  HILL: String Quartet No 11 in D minor - Dominion Quartet (Naxos 8.572844)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  MARX: Idyll, Concertino on the pastoral fourth, from Nature Trilogy - Bochum SO/Steven Sloane (ASV CD DCA 1137)

  SCHUMANN: Fairy-tale Scenes Op 132 - Peter Schmidl (cl), Heinrich Koll (vla), Madoka Inui (pno) (Naxos 8.557606)

  GLASS: Violin Concerto - Robert McDuffie (vln), Houston Symphony/Christoph Eschenbach (Telarc CD 80494)

  11:00 WIDOR: Suite Op 34 - Catherine Bowie (fl), Sharon Joy Vogan (pno) (RNZ)

  IBERT: Six harp pieces, Matin sur l'eau; Scherzetto; En barque, Le soir; Ballade; Reflets dans l'eau; Fantaisie - Lavinia Meijer (harp) (Channel Classics CCS SA 28908)

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