Schedule for Sunday 16 August 2015

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12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

Disc 1
TCHAIKOVSKY: Serenade in C for strings; Elegie; Suite No 4 in G, Mozartiana; Sleeping Beauty (orch Stravinsky), excerpts; String Quartet No 1 in D (orch Serebrier), Andante Cantabile - John Doig (vln), Scottish Chamber Orch/José Serebrier (ASV CD DCA 719)
1:15 approx - Disc 2
MOLTER: Sonata in F for two wind bands; Cello Concerto in C; Overture in C minor; Sinfonia in F; Oboe Concerto in C minor; Sinfonia in F - Roman Storojenko (cello), Voichita Popa (ob), Josef Bock (hpschd), Europa Symphony/Wolfgang Gröhs (Arte Nova 74321 40741)
2:30 approx - Disc 3
STANFORD: Stabat Mater Op 96; Bible Songs Op 113; Te Deum laudamus - Ingrid Attrot (sop), Pamela Helen Stephen (mezzo), Nigel Robson (ten), Stephen Varcoe (bass), Leeds Philharmonic Chorus, BBC Phil/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 9548)
3:45 approx - Disc 4
LILBURN: Three Sea Changes; Sonatina No 2; Prelude (1951); From the Port Hills; Sonata (1956); Nine Short Pieces; Adagio Sostenuto; Two Preludes (1951); Sonata (1949) - Margaret Nielson (pno) (Manu CD MANU 1511)
4:55 approx - Disc 5
BACH: Suite in E BWV1006a; Prelude in C minor BWV999; Fugue in G minor BWV1000; Suite in G minor BWV995 - Nigel North (baroque lute) (Amon Ra CD SAR 23)
6:00 AM. Sanctuary

LAURIDSEN: Introitus, from Lux aeterna - Nordic Chamber Choir/Nicol Matt, Jörg Halubek (org) (Bayer BR 100 305)
THOMPSON: Alleluia - Polyphony/Stephen Layton (Hyperion CDA 67929)
BACH: Cantata No 35, written for the 12th Sunday after Trinity, Mind and spirit are bewildered - Bernarda Fink (mezzo), Freiburg Baroque Orch/Petra Müllejans (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 2016)
WILLAN: Missa Brevis No 11 B226 - Elora Festival Singers/Noel Edison (Naxos 8.557734)
KLENGEL: Hymn for twelve cellos Op 57 - Cellists of the Berlin Phil (Allegria 221085 205)
ALLEGRI ed Willcocks: Miserere mei, Deus - Roy Goodman (treble), Choir of King's College, Cambridge/David Willcocks (Decca 448 995)
ESENVALDS: O salutaris hostia - Natalie Campbell, Julianna Emanski (sop), South Dakota Chorale/Brian A Schmidt (Pentatone PTC 5186 530)
SCHUBERT arr Harris: Ave Maria D839 - Isaac Stern (vln), Columbia SO/Milton Katims (Sony SK 45816)
7:30 AM. Hymns on Sunday

A weekly selection of traditional and modern hymns (RNZ)
8:00 AM. Grace Notes

DEBUSSY: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune - New Zealand SO/James Sedares (Universal 399 878)
GRANADOS trans Márquez/Gastinel: El mirar de la maja, from Tonadillas in the old style - Anne Gastinel (cello), Pablo Márquez (gtr) (Naïve V 5182)
CANTELOUBE: Baïlèro, from Songs of the Auvergne - Kiri Te Kanawa (sop), English CO/Jeffrey Tate (Decca 444 995)
GRIEG: Shepherd boy, from Lyric Suite Op 54 - Andrei Gavrilov (pno) (DG 437 522)
FINZI: Romance in Eb Op 11 - Orch of the Swan/David Curtis (Somm SOMMCD 244)
VILLA-LOBOS: Aria, from Bachianas Brasileiras No 5 - Anna Noakes (fl), Gillian Tingay (harp) (ASV White Line CD WHL 2101)
WAGNER: Liebestod, from Tristan & Isolde - Philadelphia Orch/Christian Thielemann (DG 453 485)
9:00 AM. Dame Joan Sutherland (1926-2010)

"Whether producing mind boggling divisions, arpeggios, appogiaturas, pinpoint staccati, colossal high notes which lose no quality in delivery, or that unequalled trill, every arsenal of the coloratura is supremely at her command" (Opera Britannia)
Roger Flury and Des Wilson talk about the life and career of the great Australian soprano, known around the world as 'La Stupenda' (RNZ)
10:00 AM. Lancashire Lad

Lancashire Lad

Four programmes in which Indra Hughes promises some surprising twists and turns with an eclectic mix of instrumental and vocal music from Bach to Tormé

(4) Wayfaring Stranger (RNZ)
11:45 AM. The Works

STRAUSS: Waltzes, from Der Rosenkavalier (first sequence) - Leipzig Gewandhaus Orch/Herbert Blomstedt (Decca 475 6550)
Noon The Critic's Choice

The top choices from leading overseas music magazines
RAMEAU: Castor & Pollux, Overture - Ensemble Pygmalion/Raphaël Pichon (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 2212)
MOZART: Violin Concerto No 5 in A K219, Turkish - Arabella Steinbacher (vln), Lucerne Festival Strings (Pentatone PTC 5186 479)
PURCELL: Sound the trumpet, from Come ye Sons of Art away; My dearest, my fairest; Hark, how the songsters, from Timon of Athens - Wim Van Hasselt (tpt), Jorgen Van Rijen (tbn), Mike Fentross (gtr/theorbo), Benedikt Enzler (cello), Jorge Lopez-Escribano (org), Inês d'Avena, Reine-Marie Verhagen (recorders) (Channel CCSSA 36315)
1:00 PM. Vintage Years

Russian cellist Mstislav Rostropovich
FAURÉ: Piano Quartet No 1 in C minor Op 15 - Emil Gilels (pno), Leonid Kogan (vln), Rudolf Barshai (vla), (rec 1958) (DG 477 7476)
PROKOFIEV: Concertino in G minor Op 132 - Moscow Radio & Television SO/Gennady Rozhdestvensky (rec 1964) (EMI CZS 5 72016)
RACHMANINOV: Vocalise Op 34/14 - Alexander Dedyukhin (pno) (rec 1957) (EMI 3 80013)
2:00 PM. The Sunday Feature

Benjamin Northey
New Chief Conductor of the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra talks with David Morriss about his musical life (RNZ)
3:00 PM. Young New Zealand

The Big Sing National Finale Gala Concert 2015

New Zealand's premier choir competition was held in the Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington last evening. Twenty-four of the country's finest young choirs presented one item each (RNZ)
5:00 PM. The Doors, No One Here Gets Out Alive

Four programmes
(1) The Beginning of Doors, Visionary Dreams
Mid 60's Venice Beach, Los Angeles, and psychedelic drugs, Aldous Huxley and dead Indians all influence the formation of The Doors with Jim Morrison as the rock and roll Shaman of a new generation (Rhino)
6:00 PM. Opera on Sunday

Euroradio Opera Season
A selection of live operatic performances recorded by some of the world's major public broadcasters
BELLINI: I Capuleti e i Montecchi, an opera in two acts
Tebaldo........................ Yosep Kang
Capellio....................... Matthias Hausmann
Lorenzo........................ Nahuel di Pierro
Romeo......................... Elina Garanca
Juliet............................ Ekaterina Siurina
Geneva Grand Théâtre Chorus, German Radio Phil, Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern/Karl Mark Chichon (recorded in Festspielhaus, Baden-Baden by German Radio, Saarb)
8:15 PM. More of the Star-Crossed Lovers

GERMAN: Romeo & Juliet, Prelude - BBC Concert Orch/John Wilson (Dutton CDLX 7156)
LISZT: Roméo & Juliette Rêverie, Les Adieux, after Gounod's opera - Jeffrey Grice (pno) (Integral INT 221.116)
SVENDSEN: Romeo & Juliet Op 18 - South Jutland SO/Bjarte Engeset (Naxos 8.570322)
PROKOFIEV arr Borisovsky: Morning Serenade; Dance of the Lily Maidens; Epilogue: Parting Scene & Death of Juliet, from Romeo & Juliet, Acts 3 & 4 - Matthew Jones, Rivka Golani (vlas), Michael Hampton (pno) (Naxos 8.572318)
9:00 PM. From the New Zealand Collection

C MARSHALL: The Water of Life - Choir of Wellington Cathedral of St Paul/Michael Stewart, Richard Apperley (org) (Organism ORG 017)
FARR: Le Temps est à la Pluie - New Zealand SO/Kenneth Young (Trust MMT 2021)
BOYD: Goldfish through summer rain - Amanda Hollins (fl), Richard Mapp (pno) (Atoll ACD 902)
WHITACRE: Cloudburst - Kelly Kim (speaker), Claudia Lewis (sop), Oliver Fetherston (bass), Brent Stewart (perc), NZ Secondary Students Choir 2013-14/Andrew Withington (Private)
BODY: Rainforest - Bridget Douglas (fl), Carolyn Mills (harp) (Atoll ACD 709)
MACCUNN: The Land of the Mountain & the Flood Op 3 - New Zealand SO/Hamish McKeich (Trust MMT 2059)
10:00 PM. Day's End

KUSSER: Suite No 5 in Bb, from Festin des Muses - Aura Musicale/Balázs Máté (dir) (Hungaroton HCD 32552)
BEETHOVEN: Violin Sonata No 2 in A Op 12/2 - Isabelle Faust (vln), Alexander Melnikov (pno) (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 2025.27)
11:00 BRAHMS: Horn Trio in Eb Op 40 - Marie Luise Neunecker (horn), Antje Weithaas (vln), Silke Avenhaus (pno) (BIS SACD 1859)
FAURÉ: String Quartet in E minor Op 121 - Quatuor Ebène (Virgin 5 19045)