Sunday 7 June 2015 Rātapu 7 Pipiri 2015

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  Disc 1

  PLEYEL: Symphonies, in C Ben128; in F minor Ben138; in C minor Ben121 - Capella Istropolitana/Uwe Grodd (Naxos 8.554696)

  1:15 approx - Disc 2

  HAYDN: Keyboard Sonata No 32 in G minor HobXVI/44; Keyboard Sonata No 31 in Ab HobXVI/46; Arietta & 12 Variations in Eb HobXVII/3; Keyboard Sonata No 33 in C minor HobXVI/20 - Geoffrey Lancaster (fpno) (ABC Classics 465 702)

  2:30 approx - Disc 3

  GILLES: Requiem; Motet Beatus quem elegisti - Véronique Gens (sop), Jean-Paul Fouchecourt, Hervé Lamy (tens), Peter Harvey, Jean-Louis Paya (basses), Le Concert Spirituel Choir & Orch/Hervé Niquet (Accord 465 924)

  3:35 approx - Disc 4

  GUSTAVSEN: Deep as love; Graceful touch; IGN; Melted matter; At a glance; Song of yearning; Turning point; Interlude; Where Breathing Starts; Going places; Your eyes; Graceful touch, variation; Song of yearning - Tord Gustavsen Trio (ECM 1834)

  4:40 approx - Disc 5

  VINTER: Entertainments; ELGAR: Sospiri; WARLOCK: Four Folksong Preludes; FOX: Countryside Suite; MARSHALL: Elegy; SCOTT: First Suite for Strings; WALTERS: Sinfonia Breve - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland (White Line CD WHL 2139)

• 6:00 AM. Sanctuary

  GLENNIE: A Little Prayer - Evelyn Glennie (marimba) (RCA 60242-2-RC)

  DESENCLOS: Nos autem gloriari oportet; O salutaris hostia - Les Eléments Chamber Choir/Joël Suhubiette, Frédéric Desenclos (org) (Hortus 009)

  BACH: Cantata No 20, written for the Second Sunday after Pentecost, O Eternity, thou thunderous word - Robin Blaze (countertenor), Jan Kobow (ten), Peter Kooij (bass), Bach Collegium Japan Chorus & Orch/Masaaki Suzuki (BIS CD 1321)

  SILVESTROV: The Lord's Prayer, from Diptychon - Latvian Radio Choir/Sigvards Klava (GB Records BCGBCD 07)

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

  BUSTO: Two Marian Pieces - Phoenix Chorale/Charles Bruffy (Chandos CHSA 5066)

  GRETCHANINOV: Missa Sancti Spiritus - Tatiana Jeranje (contralto), Russian State Symphonic Cappella/Valéry Polyansky (Chandos CHAN 9397)

• 7:30 AM. Hymns on Sunday

  A weekly selection of traditional and modern hymns (RNZ)

• 8:00 AM. Grace Notes

  SIBELIUS: The Swan of Tuonela, from Lemminkäinen Legends Op 22 - Ellen Sherman (cor anglais), New Zealand SO/James Sedares (Universal 399 878)

  SANDSTRÖM: Song to Lotta - Stefan Schulz (bass tbn), Tomoko Sawano (pno) (BIS CD 1824)

  CHOPIN: Waltz in Ab Op 69/1, L'Adieu - Vladimir Horowitz (pno) (RCA 09026 63314)

  EDWARDS: Cadenza-Chorale, from Maninyas - Dene Olding (vln), Sydney SO/Stuart Challender (ABC 472 610)

  DUROSOIR: Berceuse - Eric Picard (cello), Johan Farjot (pno) (Alpha 175)

  BIZET: Micaela's aria, Je dis que rien ne m'épouvante, from Carmen - Malvina Major (sop), New Zealand SO/Piero Gamba (Kiwi CD TRL 075)

  TRAD arr Leon: My love is like a red, red rose - Andreas Scholl (countertenor), Stacey Shames (harp), Orpheus CO (Decca 468 499)

  PÄRT: For Alina - Stephanie McCallum (pno) (ABC Classics 456 668)

  DELIUS: Summer Night on the River, from Two Pieces for Small Orchestra - Bournemouth Sinfonietta/Norman Del Mar (Chandos CHAN 6502)

• 9:00 AM. Composer of the Week

  Roger Smith takes a look at the life and music of FELIX MENDELSSOHN (1809-1847) (RNZ) (R Mon 7.00pm)

  Organ Sonata in F minor Op 65/1 - William Whitehead (organ of the Ballroom, Buckingham Palace, London) (Chandos CHAN 10532)

  Thanks be to God, from Elijah Op 70 - Sydney Philharmonia Symphonic Choir & Orch/Antony Walker (ABC 465 684)

• 10:00 AM. Michael Hill International Violin Competition Commissions

  Eight programmes researched and produced by Amber Read

  (2) JOHN RIMMER: Dance of the Sibyl (RNZ)

• 10:15 AM. Brilliant Brass

  In this new six-part series David Bremner and friends take a closer look at those brilliant brass instruments

  (1) Today's programme is all about the trombone and David's studio guest is superstar trombonist Christian Lindberg (RNZ)

• 11:15 AM. The Works

  LISZT: Piano Concerto No 1 in Eb - Julius Katchen (pno), London Phil/Ataùlfo Argento (Decca 460 831)

  SPOHR: Symphony No 6 in G Op 116, Historical Symphony in the style & taste of four different periods - North German Radio Phil/Howard Griffiths (CPO 777 179)

• Noon The Critic's Choice

  The top choices from leading overseas music magazines

  POULENC: Sextet for piano & winds - Eric Le Sage (pno), Les Vents Français (Warner 2564 623185)

  MARENZIO: Leggiadrissima eterna Primavera Amatemi, ben mio; Rivi, fontane e fiumi all'aur'al cielo; Come fuggir per selva ombrosa e folta; Leggiadre ninfe e pastorelli amanti; Candide perle e voi labbra ridenti - Elena Biscuola (mezzo), La Compagnia del Madrigale (Glossa GCD 922 804)

  LISZT: Petrarch Sonnet No 47; Petrarch Sonnet No 123, from Années de Pèlerinage, Year 2, Italy - Angela Hewitt (pno) (Hyperion CDA 68067)

• 1:00 PM. Vintage Years

  Vintage Winds

  BENEDICT: The Gypsy & the Bird - Amelita Galli-Curci (sop), Clement Barone (fl), orchestral accompaniment (rec 1927) (RCA 09026 61413)

  MOZART arr Baines: Divertimento in Bb K270 - Dennis Brain Wind Quintet (rec 1957) (BBC Legends BBCL 4066)

  BLISS: Clarinet Quintet - Frederick Thurston (cl), Griller Quartet (rec 1935) (Testament SBT 1366)

  WEBER: Bassoon Concerto in F Op 75 - Gwydion Brooke (bsn), Liverpool Phil/Malcolm Sargent (rec 1947) (Testament SBT 1009)

• 2:00 PM. The Sunday Feature

  The Rake's Progress

  A 1947 Chicago exhibition of William Hogarth's sequence of paintings depicting 'A Rake's Progress' inspired Stravinsky to compose an opera. With an English libretto by WH Auden & Chester Kallman, the work premièred at La Fenice in Venice in 1951. Now a 20th century classic, it's regularly revived and is the final opera in this year's season from The Met at 6.00pm

  Elric Hooper & Des Wilson present an introduction to The Rake's Progress (RNZ)

• 3:00 PM. Young New Zealand

  2014 Kerikeri International Piano Competition

  Four programmes

  (4) The Final, second half

  HAYDN: Keyboard Sonata No 52 in G HobXVI/39; SCHUMANN: Fantasy in C Op 17; STRAVINSKY: Three movements from Petrushka - Xuan He (pno)

  BACH: Chromatic Fantasy & Fugue in D minor BWV903; BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata No 26 in Eb Op 81a, Les Adieux; VINE: Nos 1-3, from Five Bagatelles; MESSIAEN: Le Loriot, from Catalogue d'oiseaux Book 1; GRANADOS: Quejas o la maja, from Goyescas; FALLA: Ritual Fire Dance, from El Amor Brujo - Alex Raineri (pno) (recorded in the Turner Centre, Kerikeri by RNZ)

• 5:00 PM. New Horizons

  Ten programmes

  (1) With William Dart (R Tues 7.00pm) (RNZ)

• 6:00 PM. Opera on Sunday

  Metropolitan Opera Season

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

  (23) STRAVINSKY: The Rake's Progress, an opera in three acts and an epilogue

  Tom Rakewell unwittingly makes a bargain with the Devil, and his ensuing picaresque adventures include marriage to a bearded lady, an encounter with a machine that supposedly turns stones into bread, and ultimately confinement to a madhouse

  Tom Rakewell.................. Paul Appleby

  Anne Trulove................... Layla Claire

  Nick Shadow.................... Gerald Finley

  Baba the Turk.................. Stephanie Blythe

  Father Trulove................. Brindley Sherratt

  Sellem.............................. Tony Stevenson

  Mother Goose................... Margaret Lattimore

  Keeper of the Madhouse.. Paul Corona

  Metropolitan Opera Chorus & Orch/James Levine (EBU)

• 9:30 PM. From the New Zealand Collection

  HILL: String Quartet No 8 in A - Dominion Quartet (Naxos 8.572097)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  RESPIGHI: Rossiniana - Buffalo Phil/JoAnn Falletta (Naxos 8.557711)

  TURINA: Danzas fantásticas Op 22 - Cincinnati SO/Jesús López-Cobos (Telarc CD 80574)

  VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Oboe Concerto in A minor - Ruth Bolister (ob), Elgar CO/Stephen Bell (ASV CD DCA 1173)

  11:00 MEDTNER: Violin Sonata No 1 in B minor Op 21 - Chloë Hanslip (vln), Igor Tchetuev (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67963)

  SAINT-SAËNS: Piano Quintet in A minor Op 14 - Nash Ensemble (Hyperion CDA 67431/2)

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