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Sunday 31 May 2015 Rātapu 31 Haratua 2015

  • 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

    Disc 1

    ALFVÉN: Swedish Rhapsody No 1 Op 19; Symphony No 2 in D Op 11 - Stockholm Phil/Neeme Järvi (BIS CD 385)

    1:05 approx - Disc 2

    SHICKHARDT: Concerto for four treble recorders in C; de BOISMORTIER: Concerto in B minor: TELEMANN: Concerto in E; de BOISMORTIER: Sonata No 6 in A minor; SHICKHARDT: Concerto for four treble recorders in D minor; TELEMANN: Concerto in F; de BOISMORTIER: Concerto in A minor; Sonata No 3 in E minor; SHICKHARDT: Concerto for four treble recorders in G - Sirena Recorder Quartet (BIS CD 1234)

    2:15 approx - Disc 3

    BODY: People look East; GRIFFITHS: Dormi Jesu; BYARS: An heavenly song; WHITEHEAD: Qui Natus Est; EASTGATE: Estas in Exilium; TREMAIN: Tenera Juventa; FARQUHAR: Three of a kind; J RITCHIE: Lord, when the sense of thy sweet grace; RIVE: And is there care in heaven?; WELLS: Blow me eyes; TRAD arr Mews: Three Maori songs; MEWS: Ghosts, fire and water; FISHER: Pounamu; de CASTRO-ROBINSON: Chaos of Delight III - Auckland University Festival Choir/Peter Godfrey, Auckland University Singers/Karen Grylls (Kiwi CD SLD 108)

    3:15 approx - Disc 4

    DUSSEK: Sonatas, in G Op 51; in G Op 35/2; in Bb Op 39/3; Grand Sonata in Eb Op 75 - Fredrick Marvin (pno) (Dorian DIS 80138)

    4:30 approx - Disc 5

    WATTS: Metropolis; MORLEY: Rotten Row; LANE: London Salute; GUNNING: Concerto for saxophone and orchestra; TATE: London Fields, Suite; WOOD: London Landmarks; LEWIS: Festival of London March - John Harle (sax), Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland, ASMF/Christopher Gunning, Paul Lewis (ASV CDD WHL 2138)

  • 6:00 AM. Sanctuary

    MASKATS: Da ispravitsja molitva moja - Monta Martinsone (sop), Gundars Dzilums (bar), Edgars Saksons (perc), Latvian Radio Choir/Sigvards Klava (GB Records BCGBCD 07)

    ANON: Benedicta sit sancta Trinitas; WILBY: Vox dei; LEIGHTON JONES: O lux beata Trinitas - Choir of Trinity College, University of Melbourne/Michael Leighton Jones (dir) (ABC Classics 476 294)

    GIBBONS: Fantasias in three parts, Nos 6, 8 & 9 - London Baroque (BIS CD 1455)

    BACH: Cantata No 129, written for Trinity Sunday, Give honour to the Lord - Ruth Holton (sop), Daniel Taylor (countertenor), Peter Harvey (bass), Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists/John Eliot Gardiner (Soli Deo Gloria SDG 138)

    GOULD: Spirituals for Strings - I Musici de Montréal/Yuli Turovsky (Chandos CHAN 9848)

    HUMMEL: Te Deum in D - Voices New Zealand Chamber Choir, New Zealand SO/Uwe Grodd (Naxos 8.557193)

  • 7:30 AM. Hymns on Sunday

    A weekly selection of traditional and modern hymns (RNZ)

  • 8:00 AM. Grace Notes

    RAMEAU: Entrée de Polymnie, from Les Boréades - Les Musiciens du Louvre/Marc Minkowski (Archiv 477 5578)

    VILLA-LOBOS: Prelude No 1 in E minor - Carlos Bonell (gtr) (Upbeat Classics URCD 140)

    FAURÉ: Pavane - ASMF & Chorus/Neville Marriner (Decca 425 014)

    CHOPIN: Berceuse in Db Op 57 - Evgeny Kissin (pno) (RCA 09026 63259)

    O LINDBERG arr Milone: Andante, from Gammal fäbodspsalm - Alison Balsom (tpt), Gothenburg SO/Edward Gardner (EMI 3 53255)

    DELIBES arr Bates: Flower Duet, from Lakmé - Mady Mesplé (sop), Danielle Millet (mezzo), National Opera Orch/Alain Lombard (EMI 7 94431)

    MOZART: Second movement, Larghetto Clarinet Quintet in A K581 - Sharon Kam (basset cl), Isabelle van Keulen, Ulrike-Anima Mathé (vlns), Volker Jacobsen (vla), Gustav Rivinius (cello) (Berlin Classics 001667)

    GJEILO: The Ground - Phoenix Chorale, Ola Gjeilo (pno), Harrington String Quartet/Charles Bruffy (Chandos CHSA 5100)

    ELGAR: Nimrod, from Enigma Variations - BBC SO/Andrew Davis (Warner Classics 8573 80438)

  • 9:00 AM. Composer of the Week

    The life and music of CARL NIELSEN (1865-1931), commemorating the 150th anniversary of his birth on 9th June, presented by Kenneth Young (RNZ) (R Fri 9.00am)

    Wind Quintet in E Op 43 - Nielsen Wind Quintet (Ogam 488010)

  • 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

    (7) Settecento Trio: Rachel Barton Pine (vln), John Mark Rozendaal (cello), David Schrader (hpschd)

    MCGIBBON: Trio Sonata in B minor; ANON: Pibroch; VERACINI: Trio Sonata in A Op 2/9; BREMNER: Variations on Hit Her on the Bum; MACKINTOSH/MCLEAN: Trio Sonata on Pinkie House; GEMINIANI: Three Airs, Auld Bob Morrice; The country lass; Sleepy body; TRAD: Medley of Scottish Tunes; Strathspey, Miss Lyle or The Cat that Kittled in James' Wig; Four Reels, The mason's apron; Soldier's joy; The devil among the tailors; Timour the Tartar (American Public Radio)

  • 11:00 AM. The Works

    MESSNER: Salzburg Suite Op 51 - Salzburg Mozarteum Orch/Ivor Bolton (Oehms OC 734)

    STRAUSS: Oboe Concerto in D - Jonathan Small (ob), Royal Liverpool Phil/Gerard Schwarz (Avie AV 2071)

  • Noon The Critic's Choice

    The top choices from leading overseas music magazines

    RAVEL: Pavane for a Dead Princess - Rotterdam Phil/Yannick Nézet-Séguin (BIS 1850)

    STANFORD: Piano Trio No 2 in G minor Op 73 - Piano Trio (Naxos 8.573388)

    PURCELL realised Britten: Sweeter than roses; SCHUMANN: Meine Rose Op 90/2; Röselein, Röselein! Op 89/6 - Carolyn Sampson (sop), Joseph Middleton (pno) (BIS SACD 2102)

  • 1:00 PM. Vintage Years

    Vintage Delius

    Violin Concerto - Albert Sammons (vln), Liverpool Phil/Malcolm Sargent (rec 1944) (Naxos 8.110951)

    On hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring - London Phil/Constant Lambert (rec 1938) (Pearl GEM 0058)

    Sea Drift - John Brownlee (bar), London Select Choir, London Phil/Thomas Beecham (rec 1936) (Beecham Collection Beecham 3)

  • 2:00 PM. The Sunday Feature

    Honor McKellar

    Tim Dodd talks to the New Zealand mezzo, now in retirement in Dunedin, after a career that included the early days of Donald Munro's New Zealand Opera Company, Glyndebourne and the John Alldis Choir in London in the 1960s and the voice lectureship at the University of Otago (RNZ)

  • 3:00 PM. Young New Zealand

    2014 Kerikeri International Piano Competition

    Four programmes

    (3) The Final, first half

    BACH: Toccata in C minor BWV911; YOUNG: A Time and Place There Was; HAYDN: Keyboard Sonata No 60 in C HobXVI/50; LISZT: Transcendental Etude No 10 in F minor; Petrarch Sonnet No 104; Après une lecture du Dante - Sylvia Jiang (pno)

    TCHAIKOVSKY: Dumka Op 59; BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata No 32 in C minor Op 111; VINE: Piano Sonata No 1 - Ayesha Gough (pno) (recorded in the Turner Centre, Kerikeri by RNZ)

  • 5:00 PM. The Shed, A Whole New World of Music

    Four programmes from the award-winning former BBC broadcaster Mark Coles who presents his pick of the best new music releases and demos from around the planet

    (4) (R Tues 7.00pm) (MCM)

  • 6:00 PM. Opera on Sunday

    Metropolitan Opera Season

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

    (22) VERDI: Un Ballo in Maschera, an opera in three acts

    Gustavo III....................... Ricardo Tamura

    Amelia.............................. Sondra Radvanovsky

    Count Anckarström.......... Dmitri Hvorostovsky

    Oscar................................ Heidi Stober

    Ulrica............................... Dolora Zajick

    Judge................................ Mark Schowalter

    Cristiano........................... Trevor Scheunemann

    Amelia's servant............... Scott Scully

    Count Ribbing.................. Keith Miller

    Count Horn....................... David Crawford

    Metropolitan Opera Chorus & Orch/James Levine (EBU)

  • 9:20 PM. From the New Zealand Collection

    PIGOVAT: Prayer - Donald Maurice (vla), Richard Mapp (pno) (Atoll ACD 114)

    K YOUNG: Virgen de la Esperanza - New Zealand SO/Kenneth Young (Trust MMT 2027)

    FRANCK: Pastorale Op 19 - Gillian Weir (organ of Aarhus Cathedral, Denmark) (Collins Classics 70442)

  • 10:00 PM. Day's End

    SIBELIUS: King Christian II, Suite - New Zealand SO/Pietari Inkinen (Naxos 8.570068)

    LOEFFLER: Divertissement in A minor for violin and orchestra - Lorraine McAslan (vln), BBC Concert Orch/Johannes Wildner (Dutton CDLX 7313)

    11:00 WHITACRE: The River Cam - Julian Lloyd Webber (cello), London SO/Eric Whitacre (Decca 279 6323)

    HOVHANESS: The garden of Adonis - Anthony Ferner (fl), Helen Webby (harp) (Manu CD MANU 2050)

    RAMEAU: Suite in E minor - Angela Hewitt (pno) (Hyperion SACD 67597)

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