Sunday 19 April 2015 Rātapu 19 Paenga-whāwhā 2015

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  Disc 1

  SCHUBERT: Symphony No 8 in B minor D759, Unfinished; Incidental music to Rosamunde D797 - Concertgebouw Orch/Bernard Haitink (Philips 420 715)

  1:05 approx - Disc 2

  HINDEMITH: Sonata; CAPLET: Divertissements; TAILLEFERRE: Sonata for harp; ÖZDIL: Aganta, Burina, Burinata for harp; FAURÉ: Impromptu; BRITTEN: Suite for harp Op 83 - Godelieve Schrama (harp) (Canal Grande CG 9530)

  2:15 approx - Disc 3

  STENHAMMAR: Seven Poems from Thoughts of Solitude Op 7; Five Songs to texts by JL Runeberg Op 8; Four Swedish Songs Op 16; Five Songs of Bo Bergman Op 20; Songs & Moods Op 26; Late Harvest - Peter Mattei (bar), Bengt-Ake Lundin (pno) (BIS CD 654)

  3:35 approx - Disc 4

  LILBURN: Landfall in Unknown Seas; PRUDEN: Dances of Brittany; HEENAN: Cindy; Three Maori Songs; J RITCHIE: Concerto for Clarinet & Strings; FARQUHAR: Ring Around the Moon - Alex Lindsay String Orch/Alex Lindsay (Kiwi CD SLD 107)

  4:45 approx - Disc 5

  BRAHMS: Theme and variations for piano; Presto Studies, No 3 & No 4; Chaconne Study No 5, from Five Studies for Piano; Hungarian Dances; Gavotte; Impromptu; Etude Study No 1; Rondo Study No 2, from Five Studies for Piano - Georg Friedrich Schenck (pno) (Koch Schwann 3-1172)

• 6:00 AM. Sanctuary

  TALLIS: Sancte Deus - Tallis Scholars/Peter Phillips (Gimell 454 895)

  VICTORIA: O magnum mysterium - Choir of Westminster Cathedral/David Hill (Hyperion CDA 66190)

  AUFSCHNAITER: Sonata St Matthew Op 4/5 - Ars Antiqua Austria/Gunar Letzbor (dir) (Arcana A 313)

  ADAM: O Holy Night - Elina Garanca (mezzo), Saarbrücken Radio SO/Karel Mark Chichon (DG 479 2071)

  HOVHANESS: Psalm & Fugue Op 40a - Slovak Radio SO, Bratislava/Kerry Stratton (Dorian DOR 93166)

  BACH: Cantata No 85, written for the second Sunday after Easter, Ich bin ein guter Hirt - 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)

  ANON arr Harms: Latvian Prayer - Dawn Harms (vla), Carolyn Mills (harp) (Atoll ACD 199)

  HILDEGARD OF BINGEN: O splendidissima gemma - Oxford Camerata/Jeremy Summerly (Naxos 8.557983)

  F COUPERIN: Kyrie; Gloria, from Mass for the parishes, excerpts - Christopher Hainsworth (organ of St Matthews, Hastings) (Ribbonwood RCD 1025)

• 7:30 AM. Hymns on Sunday

  A weekly selection of traditional and modern hymns (RNZ)

• 8:00 AM. Grace Notes

  VERDI: La Traviata, Prelude to Act III - Berlin Phil/Claudio Abbado (DG 457 627)

  LIADOV: The Enchanted Lake - Eastman Philharmonia/Howard Hanson (Mercury 434 390)

  ELGAR: Chanson de Nuit Op 15/1 - Midori (vln), Robert McDonald (pno) (Sony SK 89700)

  BORODIN: Third movement, Nocturne, from String Quartet No 2 in D - Borodin Quartet (Decca 444 389)

  FAURÉ orch Rabaud: Berceuse, from Dolly Suite - Paris Orch/Serge Baudo (EMI 5 67523)

  TRAD arr Leon: She moved through the fair - Andreas Scholl (countertenor), Edin Karamazov (lute), Stacey Shames (harp) (Decca 468 499)

  STRAUSS: September, from Four Last Songs - Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (sop), Berlin Radio SO/George Szell (EMI CDC 7 47276)

  DELIUS: Walk to the Paradise Garden, from A Village Romeo & Juliet - ASMF/Neville Marriner (Decca 421 631)

• 9:00 AM. Composer of the Week

  Ryan Smith takes a look at the life and music of GIACINTO SCELSI (1905-1988), marking the 110th anniversary of the composer's birth earlier this year (8 January) (RNZ) (R Mon 7.00pm)

  Ave Maria, from Three Latin Prayers - Frances-Marie Uitti (cello) (ECM 1963)

  Three Sacred Songs - Schola Heidelberg/Walter Nussbaum (BIS CD 1090)

  Alleluja, from Three Latin Prayers - Frances-Marie Uitti (cello) (ECM 1963)

• 10:00 AM. Concerts from The Frick

  Seven concerts, hosted by David Garland, from the music room at The Frick, the former New York residence of industrialist Henry Clay Frick

  (1) Maurice Steger (recorder), Phoebe Carrai (cello), Ignacio Prego (hpschd)

  VERACINI: Recorder Sonata in A minor; UCCELLINI: Sinfonia No 14, La Foschina; MERULA: La Pighetta; CORELLI: Prelude, from Recorder Sonata in G minor Op 5/13; VIVALDI: Cello Sonata in Bb RV46; HASSE: Cantata in D; FALCONIERI: La suave melodia (American Public Radio, New York)

• 11:00 AM. The Works

  SCHUMANN: String Quartet in F Op 41/2 - Quatuor Ysaÿe (Aeon AECD 0418)

  SHOSTAKOVICH: Cello Concerto No 2 in G minor Op 126 - Truls Mørk (cello), Oslo Phil/Vasily Petrenko (Ondine ODE 1218)

• Noon The Critic's Choice

  The top choices from leading overseas music magazines

  RAVEL: Mother Goose - Stuttgart Radio SO/Stéphane Denève (Hänssler CD 93.087)

  TCHAIKOVSKY: Iolanta, Scene No 9, Finale

  Iolanta.............................. Anna Netrebko

  Count Vaudémont............ Sergey Skorokhodov

  Robert............................... Aleksei Markov

  King René........................ Vitalij Kowaljow

  Ibn-Hakia......................... Lucas Meachen

  Slovenian Chamber Choir, Slovenian Phil/Emmanuel Villaume (DG 479 3969)

• 1:00 PM. Vintage Years

  J STRAUSS II: Tales from the Vienna Woods - NBC SO/Erich Kleiber (rec 1947) (Music & Arts CD 1112)

  GRIEG: Valse-Impromptu; Melodie; Niels W Gade, from Lyric Pieces - Richard Farrell (pno) (rec 1958) (EMI CDM 7 63778)

  MILHAUD: La Cheminée du roi René Op 205 - Dennis Brain Wind Quintet (rec 1955) (BBC Legends BBCL 4066)

  STRAVINSKY: Violin Concerto in D - David Oistrakh (vln), Moscow Phil/Kyrill Kondrashin (rec 1963) (Brilliant Classics 92609)

• 2:00 PM. The Sunday Feature

  War Records

  Des Wilson looks at the British gramophone's contribution to the war effort 100 years ago (RNZ)

• 3:00 PM. Young New Zealand

  Auckland Chamber Music Society Prize Concert

  MOZART: First & Second movements, Allegro; Larghetto, from Piano Trio No 3 in Bb K502; MENDELSSOHN: First movement, Allegro energico con fuoco, from Piano Trio No 2 in C minor Op 66 - Trinity Trio

  SCHUBERT: Third, Fourth & Fifth movements, Scherzo; Andantino; Allegro giusto, from Piano Quintet in A D667, Trout - Golden Quintet

  BEETHOVEN: First movement, Allegro, from Piano Trio No 1 in Eb Op 1/1; SHOSTAKOVICH: Piano Trio No 1 in C minor Op 8 - Akato Piano Trio (recorded in the University of Auckland Music Theatre by RNZ)

• 4:15 PM. Bach Suites

  Orchestral Suite No 1 in C BWV1066 - Stuttgart CO/Karl Münchinger (Decca 414 505)

  Cello Suite No 3 in C BWV1009 - Viola de Hoog (cello) (Vivat 107)

• 5:00 PM. New Horizons

  Ten programmes

  (8) 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

  (16) MASSENET: Manon, an opera in five acts

  The passionate and wilful Manon, torn between her desire for a life of luxury and her love for the young nobleman Des Grieux, ends up with neither, dying a tragic death

  Manon Lescaut................. Diana Damrau

  Le Chevalier des Grieux.. Vittorio Grigolo

  Le Comte des Grieux....... Nicolas Testé

  Morfontaine..................... Christophe Mortagne

  de Brétigny....................... Dwayne Croft

  Pousette............................ Mireille Asselin

  Javotte.............................. Cecelia Hall

  Rosette............................. Maya Lahyani

  Innkeeper.......................... Robert Pomakov

  Lescaut............................. Russell Braun

  Guards.............................. John McVeigh, David Won

  Maid................................. Kathryn Day

  Metropolitan Opera Chorus & Orch/Emmanuel Villaume (EBU)

• 10:15 PM. Day's End

  JANÁCEK: Fairy-tale - Mstislav Rostropovich (cello), Benjamin Britten (pno) (Decca 466 823)

  DEBUSSY orch Koechlin: Khamma - Lyon National Orch/Jun Märkl (Naxos 8.572297)

  BRIDGE: The Sea - New Zealand SO/James Judd (Naxos 8.557167)

  11:00 REINECKE: Flute Sonata in E minor Op 167, Undine - Yossi Arnheim (fl), Daniel Gortler (pno) (Meridian CDE 84320)

  STANFORD: Piano Quartet No 1 in F Op 15 - David Adams (vla), Gould Piano Trio (Naxos 8.573388)

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