Sunday 5 April 2015 Rātapu 5 Paenga-whāwhā 2015

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  Disc 1

  JC BACH: Symphonies, Op 6/1-6; Op 18/2, 4 & 6 - Netherlands CO/David Zinman (Philips 442 275)

  1:05 approx - Disc 2

  MALIPIERO: Preludi Autunnali; Barlumi; Maschere Che Passano; Poemi Asolani; Omaggi; A Claudio Debussy - Sandro Ivo Bartoli (pno) (ASV CD DCA 929)

  2:15 approx - Disc 3

  SCHUBERT: Lieder - Christine Schaefer (sop), Matthias Görne (bar), Graham Johnson (pno) (Hyperion CDJ 33027)

  3:30 approx - Disc 4

  BERWALD: String Quartets, No 1 in G minor; No 2 in A minor; No 3 in Eb - Yggdrasil Quartet (BIS CD 759)

  4:50 approx - Disc 5

  SIBELIUS: Scaramouche Op 71; The Language of the Birds, Wedding March - Gothenburg SO/Neeme Järvi (BIS CD 502)

  Freeview 51; Sky 422

• 6:00 AM. Sanctuary

  BRAHMS: Es ist das Heil uns kommen her Op 29/1 - Choir of Westminster Cathedral/Martin Baker (Hyperion CDA 67559)

  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)

  BIBER: The Resurrection, from The Five Glorious Mystery Sonatas - Cologne Musica Antiqua/Reinhard Goebel (vln/dir) (Archiv 431 656)

  BACH: Cantata No 31, The heavens laugh, the earth rejoices - Monika Frimmer (sop), Gerd Türk (ten), Peter Kooij (bass), Bach Collegium Japan/Masaaki Suzuki (BIS CD 851)

  GRIEG: In Heav'n Above; God's son has set me free, from Four Psalms Op 74 - Norwegian Soloists' Choir/Grete Pedersen (BIS SACD 1661)

  VASKS: Sanctus, from Mass - Latvian Radio Choir, Sinfonietta Riga/Sigvards Klava (Ondine ODE 1106)

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

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

• 7:30 AM. Hymns on Sunday

  A weekly selection of traditional and modern hymns (RNZ)

• 8:00 AM. Grace Notes

  LISZT: Les jeux d'eau à la Villa d'Este, from Années de Pèlerinage, Year 3 - Jorge Bolet (pno) (Decca 411 803)

  PAGANINI: Cantabile in D - Pekka Kuusisto (vln), Ismo Eskelinen (gtr) (Ondine ODE 1142)

  C STAMITZ: Second movement, Romance, from Cello Concerto No 1 in G - Christian Benda (cello), Prague CO (Naxos 8.551140)

  LEHÁR: Dein ist mein ganzes Herz, from The Land of Smiles - José Carreras (ten), English CO/Roberto Benzi (Philips 462 892)

  VERDI: O patria mia, from Aida - Alessandra Marc (sop), New Zealand SO/Heinz Wallberg (Delos DE 3108)

  RUBBRA: Loth to depart, from Improvisations on Virginal Pieces by Giles Farnaby Op 50 - Bournemouth Sinfonietta/Hans-Hubert Schönzeler (Chandos CHAN 8378)

  BOTTESINI: Elégie No 1 in D - Thomas Martin (dbass), London SO/Franco Petracchi (Naxos 8.570398)

  PIAZZOLLA orch Bacalov: Adiós Nonino - Luis Bacalov (pno), Héctor Ulises Passarella (bandoneón), St Cecilia National Academy Orch, Rome/Myung-Whun Chung (DG 463 471)

• 9:00 AM. Composer of the Week

  Peter Watts looks at the life and music of WILLIAM BYRD (1543-1623) (RNZ) (R Mon 7.00pm)

  Salve sancta parens; Alleluia; Beata es, Virgo Maria; Beata viscera (Propers for Lady Mass in Eastertide) - Cardinall's Musick/Andrew Carwood (Hyperion CDA 67568)

  Voluntary à 3 - Patrick Russill (organ of Fitzalan Castle Chapel, Arundel) (ASV CD GAU 206)

  Regina Coeli - Cardinall's Musick/Andrew Carwood (Hyperion CDA 67568)

• 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

  (5) HERRMANN: Psycho Suite - Adam Barnett-Hart, Sean Lee, Wu Jie, Kristin Lee (vlns), Paul Neubauer, Geraldine Walther (vlas), Dane Johansen, Dmitri Atapine (cellos), Scott Pingel (dbass)

  RESPIGHI: Il Tramonto - Susanne Mentzer (sop), Jorja Fleezanis, Sean Lee (vlns), Geraldine Walther (vla), Dmitri Atapine (cello)

  MENDELSSOHN: Allegro brillant in A Op 92 - Inon Barnatan, Wu Han (pno duet)

  MOSZKOWSKI: Suite in G minor for two violins & piano Op 71 - Sean Lee, Kristin Lee (vlns), Wu Han (pno)

  SCHOENFIELD: Trio for clarinet, violin & piano - José Franch-Ballester (cl), Arnaud Sussmann (vln), Gloria Chien (pno) (recorded at the Center for Performing Arts at Menlo-Atherton by American Public Media)

• 11:20 AM. The Works

  GLAZUNOV: The Seasons Op 67 - Minnesota Orch/Edo de Waart (Telarc CD 80347)

• Noon The Critic's Choice

  The top choices from leading overseas music magazines

  NIELSEN: Symphony No 1 in G minor Op 7 - Royal Stockholm Phil/Sakari Oramo (BIS SACD 2048)

  ORFF: Primo vere (Spring), from Carmina Burana - Thomas Bauer (bar), Anima Eterna Brugge, Collegium Vocale Gent, Cantate Domino/Jos van Immerseel (Zig Zag ZZT 353)

• 1:00 PM. Vintage Years

  PROKOFIEV: Quintet in G minor Op 39 - New York Ensemble of the Philharmonic Scholarship Winners/Dimitri Mitropoulos (rec 1950) (DG 477 6502)

  MENDELSSOHN: Symphony No 3 in A minor Op 56, Scottish - Cologne Radio SO/Dimitri Mitropoulos (rec 1960) (Medici Masters MM 014-2)

  PUCCINI: Vissi d'arte, from Tosca - Renata Tebaldi (sop), Metropolitan Opera Orch/Dimitri Mitropoulos (rec 1956) (Fonit Cetra CDPR 1001)

• 2:00 PM. The Sunday Feature

  Richard Farrell, New Zealand pianist

  The recorded legacy of Richard Farrell, who died in a car crash in 1958 at the age of 31, shows a pianist of outstanding technique and insight. Peter Mechen presents four programmes reviewing the surviving recordings and talking to those who remember Farrell's playing

  (4) Cosmopolitan Pianist (RNZ)

• 3:00 PM. Young New Zealand

  Todd Young Composers Awards 2014

  Two programmes in which Hannah Sassman talks with the composers in last year's awards and their works are played by the New Zealand SO/Tecwyn Evans

  (1) SAM VAN BETUW: Midnight in the Woods; GLEN DOWNIE: Kaleidoscopic Terrain; TABEA SQUIRE: The Water Bear Sleeps; ANDREW ATKINS: It's Just Weird; JASON POST: Noumena (recorded in the Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington by RNZ)

• 4:05 PM. Plucking Through the Centuries

  HANDEL arr Russell: Keyboard Suite No 7 in G minor HWV432 - Amadeus Guitar Duo (Naxos 8.573439)

  J KREUTZER: Grand Trio Op 16 - JoAnn Falletta (gtr), Alexa Still (fl), Robert Alemany (cl) (Koch International 3-7404)

  WALTON arr Russ: Five Bagatelles - Craig Ogden (gtr), Northern Sinfonia/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 9963)

• 5:00 PM. New Horizons

  Ten programmes

  (6) 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

  (14) BIZET: Carmen, an opera in four acts

  The free-spirited gypsy Carmen chooses freedom in love and in death, defying the jealous passion of the obsessed soldier Don José

  Carmen............................. Elina Garanca

  Don José........................... Younghoon Lee

  Escamillo.......................... Gábor Bretz

  Micaëla............................. Ailyn Pérez

  Zuniga.............................. Richard Bernstein

  Moralès............................. Trevor Scheunemann

  Frasquita........................... Danielle Talamantes

  Mercédès.......................... Ginger Costa-Jackson

  Lillas Pastia...................... Timothy Breese Miller

  Le Dancaïre...................... Brian Montgomery

  Le Remendado................. Keith Jameson

  Metropolitan Opera Chorus & Orch/Louis Langrée (EBU)

• 9:50 PM. Day's End

  MARAIS arr Heinrich: Les folies d'Espagne - Palladian Ensemble (Linn CKD 221)

  BRUCH: Violin Concerto No 2 in D minor Op 44 - James Ehnes (vln), Montreal SO/Mario Bernardi (CBC SMCD 5222)

  MYASKOVSKY: Divertissement for small orchestra Op 80 - Russian Federation State SO/Yevgeny Svetlanov (Warner 2564 69689-8)

  11:00 SCHUMANN ed Draheim: Piano Quartet in C minor - Valentin Piano Quartet (CPO 777 843)

  HAYDN: String Quartet in Bb Op 50/1 - Angeles String Quartet (Philips 464 650)

Next day - Mon 06

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